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ALERT: Obama Adm Now Suing Louisiana
Quick on the heels of its lawsuit against the state of Texas, the Obama Department of Justice is now suing the state of Louisiana’s attempt to free minority students from failing schools. That’s right – in order to protect the teachers’ union, the Obama White House is willing to sacrifice the collective futures of school children. Business as usual in the Age of Obama…
(via HotAir)
Justice sues Louisiana to stop school voucher program – irony overwhelming
On nearly the same day the Attorney General spoke in Washington to honor the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I have a dream” speech, his Justice Department sued to block the educational dreams of minority children in Louisiana.
Late last week, Justice asked a federal court to stop 34 school districts in the Pelican State from handing out private-school vouchers so kids can escape failing public schools. Mr. Holder’s lawyers claim the voucher program appears “to impede the desegregation progress” required under federal law. Justice provides little evidence to support this claim, but there couldn’t be a clearer expression of how the civil-rights establishment is locked in a 1950s time warp.
Passed in 2012, Louisiana’s state-wide program guarantees a voucher to students from families with incomes below 250% of poverty and who attend schools graded C or below. The point is to let kids escape the segregation of failed schools, and about 90% of the beneficiaries are black. LINK
continue article at The Ulsterman Report:
http://theulstermanreport.com/2013/08/27/breaking-obama-administration-now-suing-louisiana/
