Activist Attorney Calls for ‘Militant’ Action Against Injustices in Public Education

Activist Attorney Calls for ‘Militant’ Action Against Injustices in Public Education: Washington – Young students are best suited to wage the battle for public education—and against the expansion of charter schools—and large-scale integration of the nation’s public schools should be a paramount goal in the fight.

Those were the major arguments advanced over the weekend by Shanta Driver, an activist attorney who played a pivotal role in the 2003 Supreme Court case that upheld race-conscious affirmative action in college admissions.

“We’ve found that everywhere that we’ve organized as a national organization that the group of people that are most prepared to fight for public education, for advancing desegregation in public education and against charter schools are students themselves,” said Driver, national chair and spokesperson for the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration & Immigrant Rights & Fight for Equality by Any Means Necessary, more commonly known as BAMN.