Posted on 10/20/2011 7:07:33 AM PDT by Watchdog85
On a mission to narrow the academic achievement gap between minorities and whites, the Obama Administration has ordered the nation’s second-largest public school district to cut back on disciplining black students and develop a special curriculum for those who don’t speak English.
The orders come on the heels of a 19-month federal “civil rights investigation” that concludes the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) has long failed to provide an equal education to the hundreds of thousands of minorities enrolled in its 730 campuses. How exactly? It’s anybody’s guess since the most transparent administration in history refuses to disclose details of the lengthy probe, which was conducted by the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights.
What we do know is that “English learners” and “African-Americans” are being cheated out of a quality education, according to Obama’s Education Secretary, Arne Duncan. So his agency is forcing the LAUSD to make sweeping changes because the systematic failure has resulted in huge academic disparities that have created a sort of civil rights crisis.
In fact, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, an open borders advocate, says the “achievement gap is the civil rights issue of our time.” He assures the agreement between the Department of Education and the LAUSD is a step in the right direction toward “ensuring that English learners and African-American students have equal access to the resources they need to graduate high school and get a solid footing on the economic ladder.”
Key among the administration’s demands is that the school district “eliminate inequitable and disproportionate discipline practices” for blacks and that it renews its focus on “identifying the academic English needs of African-American students.” The LAUSD must also implement a “first-of-its-kind pilot project for a community school in a predominantly African-American neighborhood” that will become a “sustainable and replicable model for promoting African-American student success.”
For the district’s 200,000 non English speakers, many of them illegal immigrants, the administration wants a costly English Learner Master Plan that will address the “specific needs” of each pupil. Students who reach high school without mastering English skills required to take college-prep courses will also get extra help and both non English speaking and black students will get “better teachers” as well as other resources.
No word on how the cash-strapped school district, notorious for its overcrowded campuses and monstrous dropout rate, will pay for all this. The state’s largest newspaper puts it mildly when it says the federal mandate “poses a potential financial problem” for a public school district that’s “faced multimillion-dollar budget cuts and layoffs over the last few years.”
IOW the school district will spend low amounts on everyone to lower test scores for everyone.
How to achieve an equal educational outcome for black and Hispanic students with poor English language skills.
1) Remove them from their parents and other bad cultural influences at a young age, and place them in uniformed boarding schools under a high degree of personal and academic discipline from grade 1 through high school.
2) Give them a school curriculum based on traditional educational methods, which under NO circumstances permits Noam Chomsky’s Whole English instruction (singularly responsible for the catastrophic failure of black elementary and secondary education in the US), revisionist history, politicization of classrooms or political indoctrination, provides ethnic segregationist or non-American instruction, or emphasizes recreational activities over academic and intellectual ones.
This includes a waiver from California State’s mandatory homosexual indoctrination, and may provide gender based classrooms and abstinence instruction along with no provision or advocacy of birth control or abortion services.
3) The purpose of the education is *not* specifically to attend college, though they may choose to do so, but is oriented to prepare them for vocational and trade schools. This is because college graduate employment prospects are full, but intelligent, trained vocational and trade employment is in perpetual shortage, but most likely far more profitable work for students today.
Likewise, this means a more traditional education including such things as motor vehicle and aircraft repair, agriculture, electrical and electronics, metalworking, craft carpentry, and military service.
Look for cute little white kindergarteners getting expelled for drawing a picture of a gun, or bringing a plastic knife to school. We need to get rid of the ‘disparity’ in punishment between the races. Has ‘zero tolerance’ ever been used against minorities?
Blacks, like whites, have been leaving California in large numbers and are returning to the Southern states they or their immediate ancestors came from. They are competing with Hispanics, unsuccessfully, for labor, service industry, and government jobs. Obama must rekindle enthusiasm among his base in order to win another "squeaker" election.
The Obama Administration has made a political calculation and fallen on the side of the blacks.
Well FINALLY! It’s about time the minority kids get their test scores up. This is a GREAT DAY for America.
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Like ordering someone to do something is going to make it happen anyway?
I don't think so.
Schools need to be accountable at the local, involved parent level. Until they are, there is no impetus to change.
I went to LAUSD schools until I went to college. This was in the 60’s to early 70’s. Even then, blacks had crow bars in their lockers, some mexican would need their stomach pumped once a semester because of downers, people got stabbed, and the mexicans could read their spanish comic books in English class.
This is just “politics”, this stuff has been like this forever.
So this administration is blaming the teachers? How is their Union going to handle this?
Therefore, the gap must be closed by crippling white scores.
When racist social engineers approach solving inequality in outcomes between whites and the diversity tribes, they target whites for hobbling. This is what the femenazis did to boys in the name of “closing the gap” in academic performance with females, too.
Public school’s failure was born of race and sex baiting.
Rubio is not a natural born citizen. West would be a better choice.
I have a better idea.
Begin the process of privatizing all education. If vouchers, tax credits, charters, (and even private boarding schools), will help build the infrastucture, then I support these measures, but the goal must be complete separation of school and state. Parents pay for their own kids. Charity educates the poorest.
At no time did I suggest that these would be government run schools, and referred to government only passively, as in that these schools would be exempt from government mandates.
They could be private, or they could be parochial, but more than anything else, they would be for parents brave enough to accept that they could not be good enough parents, nor live in a good enough place, to raise their children well enough so that they had a chance.
Close to surrendering their children for adoption. But many parents live in such circumstances, and might accept that others could raise their children better than they could.
This is a terribly hard decision, but a single child raised this way could eventually bring his entire family out of bitter poverty, crime, and anguish.
The Capital of the USA needs to be moved out of DC and rotated every year to the statehouse of one of the 50 states.
A boon to local business, and a way to destroy the apparatchiks, lobbyists and degenerate hangars on that pollute the body politic.
Marco Rubio is not to be trusted.
On immigrant tuition, Marco Rubio sounds like a Rick Perry man
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, whom every presidential candidate would love to have as a running mate, sounds a lot like a Rick Perry supporter when it comes to the issue of tuition help for immigrants who grew up in the United States long after they were brought here illegally.
The issue flared up at the last presidential debate when Perry defended a bill he signed in Texas that gave in-state tuition rates to some illegal immigrants who graduated from Texas high schools. Perry was booed by the tea-party crowd.
Rubio, who hasn’t and won’t endorse in the race, might meet the same fate.
“I think there’s general consensus behind the idea that we need to do something to help out kids who were brought here by our parents longtime ago and who have grown up in this country,” Rubio said a few weeks ago, echoing comments and sentiments he made on the campaign trail last year.
“I do think that we need to figure out how we accommodate kids who have something to contribute to our nation’s future. Whether it’s serving in the armed forces or going on to college and graduated who have basically lived most of their lives (here),” he said.
“I would say the vast majority of Americans would say that doesn’t feel right,” to deport or deny education help to a person in a case where “you’re going to go to college and you’re a good student and you’re valedictorian of your school or you’re going to go into the military,” Rubio said. “We’ve got to figure something out. And that’s what we’re in the process of trying to do.”
When Rubio was the state Legislature he supported legislation similar to one that Perry has caught flak for.
“There was a Florida bill,” Rubio said. “It was pretty limited to a number of people, you had to have a certain GPA. It was very limited in scope. I don’t know what the Texas bill was. I remember the one in Florida we did some work, but it was a limited bill and it was narrowly focused on a group of people, which is one of the issues happening with the Dream Act now — that it’s not narrow.”
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