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Louisiana
governor Bobby Jindal found out late on Friday, August 23. Attorney
General Eric Holder was suing to block the state’s school voucher
program, which aims to give low-income kids in terrible schools the
opportunity to attend better public schools and even private schools.
The Justice Department claims the two-year-old program could interfere
with federal desegregation orders in several Louisiana parishes,
holdovers from the Civil Rights era.
 “This was a complete shock,” Jindal
says. “A complete surprise.”
Maybe it shouldn’t have been. Liberals have been fighting the Louisiana
voucher initiative, officially called a “scholarship” program, from the
beginning.
“The teacher unions took us all the way to the state
supreme court, and the program’s still here,” says Jindal. In May, the
court ruled the voucher program was constitutional but that funding it
through the general education budget wasn’t. Jindal and the legislature
made it a line item in the state budget instead.
Many in the education establishment in Louisiana—Jindal calls them the
“coalition of the status quo”—protested the voucher program and other
education reforms like charter school expansion and tenure reform. Some
even hoped to recall him, the Republican speaker of the house, and
other legislators, but the movement went nowhere.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/holder-jindal-collision_751427.html
| He mighten not have been shocked had he'd
read the Pajama
Media article about the Republican Party surreptitiously
working to re-impose it. Hell,
even without that, who's shocked by anything Eric Holder does
anymore?
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Jim Crow Part II. The Man keeps bringing down the children of single black mothers.
ReplyDeleteWhere's the NAACP when you really need them?
"... voucher program, which aims to give low-income kids in terrible schools the opportunity to attend better public schools and even private schools."
ReplyDeleteSomebody still thinks that throwing money at the Black problem is going to fix things for them. The schools are terrible because the kids are terrible. Fix that Jindal you RHINO assshat.
The main reason black kids do badly in public schools is the public schools themselves. Public schools, particularly in the inner city, are crap factories whose purpose is to protect the union.
ReplyDeletePut black kids in schools where the bad actors are quickly expelled and high performance standards are set and they learn. Of course, to make this happen, we would need to break the Union-Government stranglehold over education.
That is what Jindal is trying to do and God bless him.
Of course, Comrade Barky does not give two shits about black children. All he cares about are his contributors in the NEA and AFT and other criminal communist front groups.
Watch "Waiting for Superman" if you want to learn more.