Black Alliance for Educational Options (BAEO) was a nonprofit group supporting
school voucher
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and
charter school
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programs in the United States. It was one of the largest pro-voucher groups.
[ ] The group's mission was to "actively support parental choice to empower families and to increase quality educational options for Black children".
Black Alliance for Educational Options' chairman in 2002, Howard Fuller, was a former schools superintendent in Milwaukee
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where the first voucher program in the U.S. was established.[The Nation; Vouchers]
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June 30, 2002 Gerard Robinson
Gerard Robinson (born September 24, 1966) is a former Secretary of Education in Virginia and Florida Education Commissioner. He is a school choice proponent and former president of the Black Alliance for Educational Options. He was selected to be ...
was the group's president[ until his appointment as Education Secretary for the state of ]Virginia
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. Harrison Blackmond
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became president of the group's Detroit chapter.
In 2013, the group opposed a Federal lawsuit seeking to block a voucher program in Louisiana
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. The group was also critical of the defunding of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program The D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program provides scholarships to low-income children in Washington D.C. for tuition and other fees at participating private schools. The program was the first Federal Government of the United States, Federally funded ...
. The group supports performance pay for teachers.
The group's board of directors has included:
* Dwight E. Evans
* Kevin P. Chavous
Funding support has come from the Bradley Foundation
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.
In October 2017, it was announced that BAEO was shutting down
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Organizational Profile
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Educational charities based in the United States