Executive Order -- White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans

http://whitehouse.gov ^ | July 26, 2012 | Obama

[THE_RAIDER]

Executive Order -- White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans EXECUTIVE ORDER

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WHITE HOUSE INITIATIVE ON EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, to restore the country to its role as the global leader in education, to strengthen the Nation by improving educational outcomes for African Americans of all ages, and to help ensure that all African Americans receive an education that properly prepares them for college, productive careers, and satisfying lives, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1. Policy. Over the course of America's history, African American men and women have strengthened our Nation, including by leading reforms, overcoming obstacles, and breaking down barriers. In the less than 60 years since the Brown v. Board of Education decision put America on a path toward equal educational opportunity, America's educational system has undergone a remarkable transformation, and many African American children who attended the substandard segregated schools of the 1950s have grown up to see their children attend integrated elementary and secondary schools, colleges, and universities.

However, substantial obstacles to equal educational opportunity still remain in America's educational system. African Americans lack equal access to highly effective teachers and principals, safe schools, and challenging college-preparatory classes, and they disproportionately experience school discipline and referrals to special education. African American student achievement not only lags behind that of their domestic peers by an average of two grade levels, but also behind students in almost every other developed nation. Over a third of African American students do not graduate from high school on time with a regular high school diploma, and only four percent of African American high school

[SuziQ]

The best solution for education excellence for African American children is the same as that for white, Hispanic, or Asian children. Children need intact families, and barring that, at least a custodial parent who pays attention to them, teaches them right from wrong, and pushes them to be the BEST that they can be.

Not all children are college material, and most won't go on to be PhDs, or doctors or lawyers, but any child can be encouraged to be the best they can be, and excel in the talents they have. If they are well educated, either in school, or at home, they can be successful in life.

[silverleaf]

This EO is an insulting racist piece of drivel

[Georgia Girl 2]

“Over a third of African American students do not graduate from high school on time with a regular high school diploma, and only four percent of African American high school”

To graduate you have to show up every day. Maybe Barry can issue an executive order commanding them all to show up.

[Tahoe3002]

I have known, and seen math, shop, music, art, English, Spanish, French, German, algebra and history teachers BUT never, ever, an AFRICAN AMERICAN teacher. WOW!

Do the students learn to wear baggy pants, join gangs, get tattoos, speak in hardly cipherable dialects, etc.??? Do they study holding pistols at 90 degree angles and the fine art of drive by shooting? Creating unknown numbers of illegitimate children? Hmmmmmmmm, inquiring minds want to know.

[Jack Hammer]

This is quite plainly, and on the face of it, illegal.

But, then, both America and the world know by now that Soetaro and his Chicago Minister of Justice have no respect for the law and no interest in either observing or enforcing it.