School Choice, Yes; Racial Quotas, No
This is taken from an op-ed by Juan Williams in Friday’s New York Times“”Don’t Mourn Brown v. Board of Education“”
In a series of cases [in the 1990s] in Atlanta, Oklahoma City and Kansas City, Mo., frustrated parents, black and white, appealed to federal judges to stop shifting children from school to school like pieces on a game board. The parents wanted better neighborhood schools and a better education for their children, no matter the racial make-up of the school. In their rulings ending court mandates for school integration, the judges, too, spoke of the futility of using schoolchildren to address social ills caused by adults holding fast to patterns of residential segregation by both class and race.
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The focus of efforts to improve elementary and secondary schools shifted to magnet schools, to allowing parents the choice to move their children out of failing schools and, most recently, to vouchers and charter schools.:
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Racial malice is no longer the primary motive in shaping inferior schools for minority children. Many failing big city schools today are operated by black superintendents and mostly black school boards.:
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The winning argument is that better schools are needed for all children ” black, white, brown and every other hue ” in order to foster a competitive workforce in a global economy.
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Dealing with racism and the bitter fruit of slavery and “separate but equal” legal segregation was at the heart of the court’s brave decision 53 years ago. With Brown officially relegated to the past [sic], the challenge for brave leaders now is to deliver on the promise of a good education for every child.Â
Stevens, Souter, Ginsburg, and Breyer voted to strike down school-choice programs as a violation of the Establishment Clause, yet now they claim to be the champions of racial equality.
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July 2, 2007 - 08:10 AM on July 2nd, 2007
Time to end forced busing end forced desegagation and abolish the DEPT OF EDUCATION and return to HOME SCHOOLING and end computary schooling:mad:
July 2, 2007 - 09:30 AM on July 2nd, 2007
The Left and Democrats in general have so obliterated the meaning of the 1st Amendment it is beyond a crime.
If anyone read and hewed to the 1st Amendment as written, there could be no McCain-Feingold, nor a “Fairness Doctrine”.