Obama vs. Education
President Obama and Attorney General Holder
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It was 50 years ago this June that George Wallace, the Democratic governor of Alabama, made his infamous “stand in the schoolhouse door” to prevent two black students from enrolling at an all-white school. His slogan was “Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!”
These many years later, Democrats still are standing in the schoolhouse door to prevent black students from enjoying the educational benefits available to their white peers, this time in Louisiana instead of Alabama. Playing the Wallace role this time is Eric Holder, whose Justice Department is petitioning a U.S. district court to abolish a Louisiana school-choice program that helps students, most of them black, to exit failing government schools.
The Obama administration is a serial offender on this issue, and its cynicism is startling. The Justice Department says that Louisiana’s school-choice program must be constrained because failing to do so would threaten to make the schools less racially integrated than they are today. As noted, the majority of the students who benefit from the program are black, and the great majority of them — 86 percent — are enrolled in schools rated D or F by state education authorities. Which is to say, the DOJ objects to Louisiana’s program precisely on the grounds that if we allow more black children to escape the worst schools, then the worst schools will
These many years later, Democrats still are standing in the schoolhouse door to prevent black students from enjoying the educational benefits available to their white peers, this time in Louisiana instead of Alabama. Playing the Wallace role this time is Eric Holder, whose Justice Department is petitioning a U.S. district court to abolish a Louisiana school-choice program that helps students, most of them black, to exit failing government schools.
The Obama administration is a serial offender on this issue, and its cynicism is startling. The Justice Department says that Louisiana’s school-choice program must be constrained because failing to do so would threaten to make the schools less racially integrated than they are today. As noted, the majority of the students who benefit from the program are black, and the great majority of them — 86 percent — are enrolled in schools rated D or F by state education authorities. Which is to say, the DOJ objects to Louisiana’s program precisely on the grounds that if we allow more black children to escape the worst schools, then the worst schools will