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In a previous post, I opined that spoiled kids who don’t want to deal with their student loans are one of the motivating forces behind the Wall Street protests. Flush with neo-1960s pride, students have been pouring out of classrooms. That’s not news. One expects that from the young, Marxist-informed and excitable. What is news (assuming it’s true) is that at least one college is helping its students get on the bus. Literally. A friend of a Facebook friend is a student at Sarah Lawrence, and claims that it is providing free shuttle bus services for students who want to...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - $475 is what it’ll cost to have one child ride the bus – for a year – in Franklin Township. The school district no longer offers bus transportation, and they’ve leased their busses and transportation center, too. “We’ve sold those buses to CIESC with two provisions,” says Franklin Township Superintendent Walter Bourke. “The first provision is they can only transfer Franklin Township students. The second provision is that if we want the buses back, we can buy them back for what we sold them for — which was $1.”

Raleigh, N.C. — The state NAACP says the Wake County Board of Education's move away from busing students to help balance socio-economic diversity in the school system is a "public emergency" and that the group won't stop fighting the board's "morally wrong" decision to move toward community-based schools. "If it is necessary that we be locked up to resist policies that will lock down our children in re-segregated, high-poverty and unconstitutional schools, so be it," state chapter President Rev. William Barber said at a news conference Wednesday. Barber and three others were arrested Tuesday evening and charged with second-degree trespassing...

As Herculean efforts to stop the Deepwater Horizon oil flow, and stay a'top the clean up using heavy bureaucratic red tape, pundits and media have had to content themselves with finger pointing, pointing out the finger pointing, and deciding who was the best villain to demonize that day. The favored culprit to assassinate in the media has been BP. So it comes as no surprise that prolific yellow journalism, evidenced by poor (or lazy) research, does the proverbial hit and run - splashing the headline that “BP Buses in 400 Workers During Obama’s visit”, then ignoring the facts and follow...

Raleigh, N.C. — Wake County voters gave a thumbs-down Tuesday to assigning local students based on socioeconomic factors by electing candidates to the Board of Education who oppose the controversial policy. Chris Malone won the District 1 seat on the school board, while Deborah Pickett won in District 7 and Debra Goldman took District 9.

If the Kennedy Era in American politics is over, instead of just taking a breather (Joseph P. Kennedy II has been mentioned as a possible candidate for his Uncle Ted's Senate seat), what did it mean? Character failings are not irrelevant to how well one serves the public; it was because of Chappaquiddick that Ted Kennedy was defeated by Robert Byrd as Democratic party whip in the Senate in 1971. But defenders are so quick to dismiss these issues, so let's stick to policy instead, and see if the liberal argument that Kennedy's political work made up for his personal...

These town hall protests against ObamaCare are truly the product of a vast right wing astroturfing conspiracy. And they are racist to the core as well. It is indeed common knowledge that if you oppose Obama's policies that you are a racist, but you are now part of the vast right wing astroturfing conspiracy as well. The word is out. Who exposed this "vast right wing astroturfing conspiracy?" Why, Dick Turban, Nancy Pelousy, and the State Run Media of course! You see, when liberals come together to fight for what they believe in it can't possibly be anything other than...

Chicago public school bureaucrats skirted public competitive bidding rules to buy 30 cappuccino/espresso machines for $67,000, with most of the machines going unused because the schools they were ordered for had not asked for them, according to a report by the CPS Office of Inspector General. That was just one example of questionable CPS actions detailed in the inspector general's 2008 annual report. Others included high school staffers changing grades to pump up transcripts of student athletes and workers at a restricted-enrollment grade school falsifying addresses to get relatives admitted. In the case of the cappuccino machines, central office administrators...

GARY, Ind. (WLS) -- The presidential primary campaign in northwest Indiana already includes a big controversy involving high school seniors in Gary who have been taken out of school recently and bused to nearby Crowne Point to learn about early voting, and, if they're 18, to cast their own ballots. It was more of an experience, we got to see how government runs, on a one-on-one basis, more than textbook and learning materials. It was a privilege first and foremost and an honor," said Adam Brown, Gary student. The nearby Hammond mayor and Sen. Hillary Clinton supporter says the program...

A History of Liberal Disasters By Jeffrey Lord Published 11/6/2007 12:07:43 AM It's a long list. Add Hillary Clinton's endorsement of driver's licenses for illegal immigrants ("it makes sense") to a very long list. The list? A seemingly unending series of bad policy proposals and loopy values that liberals have championed during the course of decades. What all of these subjects have in common is that they upended common sense in favor of a fit of moral superiority and emotional feel-goodism. They are a history of liberal disasters. All backfired or were proved dead wrong. Sometimes they were outright lethal....

The Robinsons, Dorchester: “I went to primarily white schools growing up,” Cathy Richmond Robinson says. “I think, ‘I did it, my kids can do it.’ Definitely by middle school, we’ll be moving out one way or another.” ( Stephen Michener is a man with a plan. He hands it to me as we sit on the couch in his second-floor Jamaica Plain condo – a slim white binder with the words Boston Metro Evac handwritten with a Sharpie on the spine. Following that, in parentheses, is written simply: (Plan B). "We started putting this together two years ago," he says....

THE SEATTLE school integration case decided by the Supreme Court last month was brought in the name of a group called Parents Involved in Community Schools on behalf of Jill Kurfirst and her ninth-grade son. But it was a little-known, Sacramento-based organization called the Pacific Legal Foundation — a conservative public interest law firm involved in the case from the beginning — that developed many of the legal arguments five justices ultimately found persuasive. Where did the foundation come from? The story begins with former Justice Lewis F. Powell. Shortly before he was nominated to the court in 1971, Powell,...

Commentary: The Use of Race Ratios in America’s Schools Helps Encourage Stereotypes, Not Real Diversity Date: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 By: Joseph C. Phillips, BlackAmericaWeb.com Most Americans favor diversity. However, very few among us would endorse a policy wherein the local government determined where a citizen could live based on their race -- even if such a policy was instituted for the intent of ensuring diversity. “Sorry Mr. Smith, we have reached our limit of white families in this particular neighborhood.” “Too bad Mr. Jones. I realize your wife has her heart set on this house, but there are too...

Under the righteous-sounding banners of “equal opportunity,” “inclusion,” and “diversity,” the political Left embraces racial discrimination as legitimate public policy -- so long as the discrimination is practiced on behalf of the minorities that the Left axiomatically considers victims of an irredeemably oppressive America. Thus the Left reacted apoplectically to last Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling that public school systems may not achieve or preserve racial integration through measures that take explicit account of students’ racial backgrounds. Specifically, the Court’s split decision invalidated programs in Seattle and Louisville (Kentucky) that sought to maintain “diversity” in local schools by factoring race into...

An intriguing ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court could re-open discussion about the brainwashing that occurs in all-too-many public school classrooms these days. The High Court this week issued a thumbs-down to so-called "diversity" plans in two large school districts that use race as a factor in assigning students. According to an Associated Press report, the ruling could affect not only schools in Seattle and Louisville, but could impact like-minded plans in hundreds of school systems around the country. Chief Justice John Roberts said the school districts involved "failed to show that they considered methods other than explicit racial classifications...

Based on their consistent behavior in recent years, and specifically again in their presidential debate last Thursday, it is fair to ask whether there is any race-sensitive situation Democrats will not exploit for political purposes. The Supreme Court's decision last week involving the public schools' use of race to achieve diversity was just too tempting to pass up. The respective candidates' reactions spawned a grotesque competition among them to see which was the best demagogue. These candidates surely understand that the Court's ruling in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 et al, did not --...

Three years ago, when I and the 48 percent of Americans who voted for then-Sen. John Kerry for president were lamenting President George Bush's win, I made this prediction about Bush's second term: He'd stick us with a right-wing high court that will chip away at the country's yet-young history of government-sanctioned integration methods. By the time the decider-in-chief was done, I'd be on a plantation somewhere, picking cotton. That dire and admittedly over-dramatic prediction has yet to come true, but the Supreme Court took a good-sized step in that direction Thursday with its ruling that restricts how race can...

Sunday, July 01, 2007 The school districts told American children they could not attend certain public schools because of the color of their skin. Those are the essentials at the core of the Seattle and Louisville race cases the U.S. Supreme Court decided last week. Those school districts were not discriminating on the basis of race in order to remedy the effects of past segregation. The Supreme Court allows such racial sorting if it's narrowly tailored and the only desegregation option. But Seattle never had segregated public schools, and Louisville came out from under a court-ordered desegregation decree in 2000....

When I am in California, I enjoy visiting Chinatown, that part of San Francisco dominated by Chinese shops, foods and language. The food is fresh, you can barter at stores, and if you're fluent, you can practice your Chinese. The population in this area is not diverse, but this concentration of Chinese culture is what makes Chinatown so enjoyable – the same with Japantown or any other ethnic area. Yet, the four dissenting justices in the recent Supreme Court decision on race would probably rule that each of these "towns" may contain a maximum of 41 percent of the concentrated...

JUNE 28, 2007, will be remembered as a shameful day in the long, elusive battle to instill equal opportunity in American schools. The U.S. Supreme Court's twisted logic in limiting a school district's ability to take race into account as a way to end racial segregation echoes the court's Plessy vs. Ferguson ruling of 1896. That ruling put the imprimatur on "separate but equal" policies that allowed racial discrimination and oppression to flourish for more than half-a-century more. The 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision, fortunately, drove a dagger into Plessy's heart -- until Thursday, when a court invigorated...

June 28, 2007, 3:50 p.m. Diversity without Decrees By The Editors In a 5-4 decision Thursday morning, the Supreme Court struck down race-based school assignment plans in Louisville and Seattle. Chief Justice John Roberts’s opinion for the Court is narrow, and is further weakened by a concurring opinion in which Justice Anthony Kennedy blesses some level of color-consciousness to achieve racial diversity in K-12 education. Yet the ruling is also a victory for those who think race plays too large a role in public life. Using different formulae, the school districts of Louisville and Seattle tried to manipulate the...

WASHINGTON, June 28 — With competing blocs of justices claiming the mantle of Brown v. Board of Education, a bitterly divided Supreme Court declared Thursday that public school systems cannot seek to achieve or maintain integration through measures that take explicit account of a student’s race.

Democratic presidential candidates stood united Thursday night against the Supreme Court and its historic ruling rolling back a half-century of school desegregation laws. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said the conservative court "turned the clock back" on history. Sen. Barack Obama, the only black candidate in the eight-person field, spoke of civil rights leaders who fought for Brown v. Board of Education and other precedents curbed by the High Court. "If it were not for them," he said, "I would not be standing here." The 90-minute debate was the third gathering of the Democratic hopefuls in a presidential campaign that has...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected school diversity plans that take account of students' race in two major public school districts but left the door open for using race in limited circumstances.The decision in cases affecting schools in Louisville, Ky., and Seattle could imperil similar plans in hundreds of districts nationwide, and it further restricts how public school systems may attain racial diversity. The court split, 5-4, with Chief Justice John Roberts announcing the court's judgment. The court's four liberal justices dissented. Yet Justice Anthony Kennedy would not go as far as the other four conservative justices, saying...

The Supreme Court ruled 53 years ago in Brown v. Board of Education that segregated education is inherently unequal, and it ordered the nation’s schools to integrate. Today, the court switched sides and told two cities that they cannot take modest steps to bring public school students of different races together. It was a sad day for the court and for the ideal of racial equality.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected the Seattle school district's racial tiebreaker, along with a school-integration plan in Kentucky, but left the door open for the limited use of race to achieve diversity in schools. The decision in cases affecting how students are assigned to schools in Louisville, Ky., and Seattle could imperil similar plans in hundreds of districts nationwide, and it further restricted how public school systems may attain racial diversity. The court split, 5-4, with Chief Justice John Roberts announcing the court's judgment. The court's four liberal justices dissented. "The way to stop discrimination on the...

June 28, 2007 Reid: Supreme Court Decision On School Desegregation Is Judicial Activism Washington, DC—Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada made the following statement today in response to the Supreme Court’s decision on school desegregation: "The Supreme Court decision in the school desegregation cases is appalling. Ever since Brown v. Board of Education, it has been settled law that the Constitution requires racially mixed schools. Today's decision turns Brown upside down and ignores decades of constitutional history. If this isn't judicial activism, I don't know what is."

SCOTUS Watch [John J. Miller] In a 5-4 decision, the Justices have struck down race-conscious school plans in Louisville and Seattle. Roberts wrote the opinion. Announced minutes ago.

Court rules that white children do not have to be bused miles away from home to achieve racial equality. BIG DECISION here.

The Inter- District Downtown School in Minneapolis and the FAIR School in Crystal opened their doors with much fanfare in 1999 and 2000, respectively. Their sponsor is the West Metro Education Program, a consortium of the Minneapolis school district and 10 suburban districts. WMEP created the schools at a cost of more than $26 million to be showcases of racial balance, achieved voluntarily. Last week, we learned that they are no such thing. Today, InterDistrict students are 70 percent minority' and the FAIR School is nearly 70 percent white. Their racial composition is little different from that of the districts...

New Orleans has long been pivotal in the struggle for black voting rights. During the Civil War, free blacks there demanded suffrage; their efforts resulted in Lincoln's first public call for voting rights for some blacks in the final speech of his life. Once these rights were won, New Orleans blacks took an active part in politics, leading to the establishment of the South's only integrated public school system. But rights once gained aren't necessarily secure; after Reconstruction, blacks in New Orleans lost the right to vote. As Thomas Wentworth Higginson wrote at the time of the Civil War, "revolutions...

Starved for cash, the New Orleans school district is taking a long shot and hoping to sell its flooded, unsalvageable school buses on eBay. Some submerged to their roofs in the black flood waters, the yellow school buses were widely photographed in the days after Hurricane Katrina and have become an icon of the city's devastated school system. School officials acknowledge the sale of the buses on the Internet auction site may puzzle some people used to more traditional school fundraisers like bake sales. "There's no shame in it. Not one bit," said school board president Phyllis Landrieu. "This is...

See this thread first. K.C. has a new set of schools Which break the old liberal rules Races, for a start Are now kept apart so libs look like hypocrite fools!

BOULDER - The neighborhood around Columbine Elementary School is 87 percent Anglo. But enrollment numbers indicate that many neighborhood kids are going elsewhere. This year, the school in northeast Boulder is 82 percent Hispanic. "Most of the parents who are involved in this would not say they were (engaged in) 'white flight' - they were simply choosing options that were better for their children," says Julie Phillips, who stepped down in November as Boulder school board president. But Richard Garcia, a member of the Colorado Commission on Higher Education who put six children through Boulder schools, is more blunt: "My...

SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. - When Michael Winsten and his wife, Cheryl, moved here four years ago, they expected their young children eventually would attend the high school down the hill, about a 3 1/2-mile bike ride from their home. Since then, relentless growth in this Orange County community has forced a school district building boom, and the Winstens' five children will have take a bus to a new school farther away. The Winstens say the real reason for moving their children is to ensure there are enough white students at the new school. They are suing Capistrano Unified School District...

For years parents have been frustrated with the barrage of left-wing claptrap thrown at our children in public schools. On Nov. 6 we saw yet another example. Teachers in 10 high schools in the Los Angeles area—schools that are among the lowest ranked in the nation when it comes to basic reading and math skills—bused more than 800 students to participate in an anti-Bush rally sponsored by a group calling itself “The World Can’t Wait—Drive out the Bush Regime.” With the use of taxpayer dollars, staff, school police and youth relations personnel accompanied the students to the event on public...

"If Sen. Mary Landrieu were as good at busing black people to safety as she was at busing them to the polls to vote, none of them would have died."

"When he arrived at the Astrodome about 10 p.m. Wednesday, 20-year-old Jabbar Gibson modestly confessed that he had commandeered a school bus in New Orleans, then picked up about 70 passengers before heading out for the 13-hour trek to Houston." <!-- DIV.b2 { margin: .75em 0px; } --> Jabbar Gibson rescues NO citizens on 8-31-05 New Orleans school buses: New Orleans public transit buses: Count 'em and weep...

In this short video (Real Media 34k stream). . at the very begining . . the 2nd sceen, shows yet another dozen unused blanco buses! The print story is here:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4210646.stm Under the first image is a link that says "VIDEO Aid Finally arrives". The URI for the RV Video is here:rtsp://.../09012da6800242eb_16x9_nb.rm?title="BBC"&author=""©right="(C) British Broadcasting Corporation"

What's happening: Nearly 70 Greyhound buses, owned by Naperville-based Laidlaw International Inc., have been operating non-stop since Wednesday when the evacuation of the New Orleans Superdome began. Why: Tens of thousands of people are stranded and Laidlaw is one of the biggest bus companies in the country. Before the storm: Laidlaw, which has 65,000 employees nationwide, got into financial trouble in the late 1990s and emerged from bankruptcy two years ago. It has since focused operations on busing--some city systems, its 40,000 school buses and Greyhound--with better results. Profit for the nine months ended May 31 totaled $296 million, up...

EWING -- In an egregious error, a 4-year-old pre-schooler was left alone inside a school bus in a parking lot for two hours as his parents frantically scoured the area trying to locate him. The boy, who attends Antheil Elementary School on Ewingville Road, got on a Rick Bus Co. bus after school ended at 3:30 p.m. Thursday. His parents sat on the porch of their Parkway Avenue home as they do every day, waiting for the tot’s bus to drop him off. But by 4 p.m., the bus still hadn’t arrived, and his parents began to worry. They called...

Friends... I am saddened by the fact that this article had to be written. This is not how we want to run our country. A Single Factor may decide this Election… Sadly, the DNC is so desperate to win this election that they have decided to remove all obstacles and play by their own set of rules, which is no rules at all. The DNC has lost its soul, and Party reform must be considered. JB Williams Political Columnist www.JB-Williams.com JBW@JB-Williams.com A Single Factor may decide this Election… Written by JB Williams ©2004-09-27 Is it “the economy stupid”? The war...

That Brown Decision I listened to all the palaver about the 1954 Supreme Court decision that ended racial segregation mandated by law. All of the talkers seem to have forgotten one important point: providing a sound education to the children. Let's note at the outset that the decision was good. It upset a system based on a lie. That lie was that "separate but equal" met the constitutional requirement of equal rights. It was a lie because the facilities were separate but almost never equal. In my entire career, I have never written a word criticizing busing children, even when...

Black Activist Group Speaks Out on Legacy of Brown Desegregation Decision 5/17/2004 6:00:00 AM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: National Desk Contact: David Almasi of Project21, 202-371-1400 ext. 106 or Project21@nationalcenter.org WASHINGTON, May 17 /U.S. Newswire/ -- In observance of the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark Brown v. Board of Education school desegregation decision, members and staff of the Project 21 African-American leadership network are available for comment. On Monday, May 17, Project 21 director David Almasi will be addressing the Brown legacy on the CNNfn program "Market Call" at approximately 9:50 am eastern. In addition, Almasi is the...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Linda Brown had no idea she was making history in the fall of 1950 when her father, the Rev. Oliver Brown, took her by the hand and marched her to an all-white school near her home. Several other black parents in Topeka also tried to enroll their children in all-white schools that fall. Their requests were denied, laying the groundwork for a legal case that would overturn segregated education nationwide 50 years ago Monday. In the years since, Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education has been a blessing and a burden for the Brown family: A...

May 17, 1954 -- half a century ago -- saw one of the most momentous decisions in the history of the Supreme Court of the United States. Some observers who were there said that one of the black-robed Justices sat on the great bench with tears in his eyes. The case was of course Brown v. Board of Education, and the decision declared that racially segregated schools were unconstitutional. In rapid succession, all kinds of other racial segregation, which were common across most of the South and even in some border states, were likewise declared unconstitutional. This was a reversal...

(Here you go, gang! Take your pick: --YD) ============================================== Last Updated: Sunday, 11 April, 2004, 15:14 GMT 16:14 UK Tories' school places shake-up By Sean Coughlan BBC News Online at the NUT conference, Harrogate Parents who buy houses near good schools to get places for their children could be wasting their money, under plans outlined by the Tories. Education spokesman, Tim Yeo, suggested that schools might not be allowed to give priority to pupils living near to the school. Mr Yeo said it was unfair that affluent parents could take places at good schools by buying houses nearby. "We aim...

Transport Mix-Up Happens Following After-School Program WELLESLEY, Mass. -- School officials in Wellesley are promising an investigation after a white after-school program teacher mistakenly put a black kindergarten student from Wellesley on a bus and sent him to Boston with other minority students who participate in a voluntary desegregation busing program. Newscenter 5's Jack Harper reported that the parents of the boy who was mistakenly sent to Boston's Dorchester neighborhood is not very happy about it. The program said they expect the boy to return to the program. The real hero in this story is the woman on the other...

Cash-Strapped Schools Turn To Busing Fees Boston (AP) - Lawmakers and school officials have a stark message for parents who think their taxes already pay for school bus transportation: No more free rides. Cash-strapped public schools trying to hang on to their teachers are increasingly turning to busing fees to raise money. The move has angered parents and raised concerns that children may be forced to use more dangerous means - like walking - to get to school. "It seems like this country can afford a lot of other things, but we can't send our students to school on buses?"...

ST. PETERSBURG -- During the first year of school choice, hundreds of African-American children in St. Petersburg will be bused out of their neighborhoods, leaving behind new schools that are only two-thirds full. Pinellas school officials acknowledged Tuesday they are limiting enrollment in several elementary schools, including the brand new Douglas Jamerson and James Sanderlin elementary schools in south Pinellas. The reason, in part, is that not enough nonblack students want to attend schools in predominantly black neighborhoods. That means hundreds of students who wanted to attend the two brand new schools -- as well as the rebuilt Campbell Park,...