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The school choice battle rages on — public school proponents believe their way of implementing education is the best way, while proponents of charter schools believe their way of instructing our youth is better.

To educate our youth, do we have to choose public or charter schools? Can we take elements from both sides to educate our children and can we focus on what works best?

The book "The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935" by James D. Anderson details that African Americans have been proponents since slavery.

Blacks have consistently developed their own institutions of learning because they did not like a particular education systems. African Americans created their own schools as a result of Jim Crow, HBCUs were created because of the lack or access to higher education and Freedom Schools were created during the Freedom Movement.

No one can say that African Americans are against school choice when Blacks have been exercising the practice since slavery.

On Wednesday’s NewsOne Now, Roland Martin, Angela Rye, Principal of IMPACT Strategies, Keith Campbell, Founding Board Member of the Black Alliance for Educational Options, GOP Political and Communications Strategist Paris Dennard, and Bob Woodson, President and Founder of the Center for Neighborhood Enterprise discussed school choice and how to cut through all of the jargon and rhetoric to get to what really matters — educating our children to make sure they have the best possible outcomes.