Posted on 09/29/2010 9:36:33 AM PDT by Starman417
With the election of Barack Obama as President the United States was supposed to be transitioning to the post racial America. Unfortunately for the children attending the public schools of the District of Columbia, someone forgot to tell their parents.
Earlier this month the voters of the nation’s capital threw out Adrian Fenty, perhaps the best mayor they have ever had. Why? Because of soaring crime rates, plummeting school test scores or a surging unemployment rate? No. Rather, Adrian Fenty, a black mayor, was fired from his job because he hired the best people possible for the jobs in his administration and many of them happened not to be black.
Like presidents, mayors are political animals. While the stakes they deal with may not be as global in scale the President’s, for their constituents, a mayor’s decisions are often more tangible and immediate. Presidents deal with federal tax policy, national defense and state dinners. Their actions affect 300 million Americans and billions more around the world. A mayor on the other hand deals with neighborhood crime, Rotary Club meetings and the local zoning disputes. Presidents rarely have to respond to anything immediately while a mayor’s immediate response or lack thereof (either good or bad) is usually chronicled in the local paper or leads the local news.
Because the mayor is so critical to the lives of the people in the community it is that much more perplexing that the people of Washington decided to vote according to race rather than success. Breaking with the past, Adrian Fenty decided that his measure of performance would be one thing: success.
And succeed he did. Washington DC has historically had some of the worst schools in the country despite spending more per pupil than most jurisdictions – this year they will spend almost $30,000 per pupil. During the 2002-2003 school year the city’s graduation rate was an abysmal 58%. Last year, after 4 years of Adrian Fenty the rate was 72% and heading higher. Not only are graduation rates increasing but test scores as well.
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Number one police of black caucus and NAACP..no whites alowed.
I could have told you that
They will get what they deserve!!!
What’s inexplicable? Most blacks vote race. Not all, of course, but evidently enough.
$30,000 per pupil!!!!
Zero sends his kids to private school and likely for less money.
Introduce competition (vouchers) into EVERY school district but allow all schools the ability to opt out.
This is another case of the inmates running the asylum. Black Liberation Theology is alive and well. Thank you, Jeremiah!
And they did such a great job in Africa too.
its worse since O was elected...
“its worse since O was elected...”
Indeed it is and that is one reason nearly 90% of blacks think he’s doing a great job!
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