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From: Bread Upon The Water	8/27/2013 9:03:39 AM
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If you are a Black Kid in New Orleans in a failing school looks like you won't be able get a voucher to transfer to a better school thanks to Eric Holder: "Late last week Justice [the Us Justice Dept]asked a Federal Court to stop 34 school districts in the Pelican State from handing out Private-School vouchers so kids can escape failing schools. Mr Holder's lawyers claim the voucher program "appears to impede the desegregation progress" required under federal law....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 or below. The point is to let kids escape the segregation [by geography] of failed schools, and about 90% of the beneficiaries [of the voucher program] are black" [Excerpted From an editorial in todays WSJ] This is putting the Federal stated goal of integration above the state's stated stated goal of letting poor children escape failed schools--which presumably doesn't effect children of middle class and above families as they can afford to live in better school districts. This Federal policy is putting the cart before the horse IMHO.

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