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DOJ Sues Louisiana to Stop School Voucher Program Helping Black Students
breitbart.com ^ | August 27, 2013 | Ben Shapiro

Posted on 09/02/2013 10:58:00 PM PDT by grundle

Last week, Eric Holder’s Department of Justice, fresh off its controversial decision to sue the state of Texas of its voter identification law, sued the state of Louisiana to block its school voucher program largely designed to help minority children. The DOJ sued to stop 34 school district from giving out private-school vouchers, claiming that such vouchers slowed the “desegregation progress.”

A full 90% of the children who benefit from the voucher program are black. The remaining 10% came from 22 school districts under desegregation orders handed down five decades ago, which prompted the DOJ to state, “the voucher recipients were in the racial minority at the public school they attended before receiving the voucher.” As the Wall Street Journal pointed out, “Justice is claiming that the voucher program may be illegal because minority kids made their failing public schools more white by leaving those schools to go to better private schools.” As black kids go to better schools, the schools left behind become less integrated, the logic goes. So keep those black kids in those failing schools.

Typically, vouchers enhance integration by allowing educational opportunities to children who have not had them before. But that’s not the point. The point is that teachers unions lose leverage when kids opt out of their failing school systems. And Eric Holder’s DOJ will do anything to help their union allies out.

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KEYWORDS: education; ericholder; obama; vouchers
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To: grundle

Keeping the peeps dumb and violent... satan’s way.


21 posted on 09/03/2013 4:17:41 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS!)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

It’s very simple. These black kids and their parents aren’t toeing the party line in support of the unions, and therefore must be crushed.


22 posted on 09/03/2013 4:50:31 AM PDT by Pecos (Kritarchy: government by the judges)
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To: grundle
Eric Holder and fellow democrats don't appreciate "RUNAWAYS" from the democrat plantation...NO VOUCHERS FOR YOU!


23 posted on 09/03/2013 5:16:51 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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