Whites Need Not Apply For School Vouchers In Richland Parish?
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So, are only black kids in failing schools going to be eligible for vouchers in Richland Parish? That seems like a logical assumption if you take what’s going on in Louisiana’s Public School Choice policy in Richland and apply it to the new school voucher expansion.
Leave it to the feds to muck things up time-and-time again, which is what all this is all about. The public school choice provision comes through us from the No Child Left Behind Act, which gives parents whose children attend low-performing schools the option to transfer their children to better schools.
Sounds like a good idea, right? Only there is a problem in Richland Parish, which is subject to a 1968 federal court order issued to keep white kids from transferring out of schools if leaving would cause the school to be classified as “all-Negro.” This edict, seemingly in violation of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, has been going on for years. New light is