As teachers know: facts matter. It’s not clear, however, that they matter to American Federation for Teachers President Randi Weingarten, who recently called school choice programs “only slightly more polite cousins of segregation” and claimed that the “real pioneers of private school choice were the white politicians who resisted school integration.”

Weingarten’s funhouse-mirror perspective not only distorts the history of school choice, but also inverts the present reality of schooling. In fact, six decades after the U.S. Supreme Court issued Brown v. Board of Education, our district-based public school system is still highly segregated by race.