Obama, Gates Work to Dissolve Suburban School Districts

National Review ^ | Sep 19, 2016 | Stanley Kurtz

[Ray76]

AFFH (Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing), President Obama’s most radical regulation, continues to go virtually unmentioned in the campaign. You might think a policy that allows big cities to swallow up and control surrounding suburbs would be widely debated and discussed, especially in an election where the suburbs hold the balance of power. Instead, both presidential candidates make a point of avoiding the issue.

Meanwhile, it’s become increasingly clear that AFFH is about a great deal more than housing. In truth, this sweepingly transformative regulation creates levers by which the feds can reach into almost every aspect of local government. In the latest development, AFFH has been revealed as a play to nullify the boundaries of suburban school districts. If President Obama and his allies have their way, the locally controlled suburban school will soon be a thing of the past.

In 2012, when I published Spreading the Wealth: How Obama is Robbing the Suburbs to Pay for the Cities, I predicted that Obama would use government funding as a lever to effectively dissolve suburban school districts, redistributing their revenues to nearby cities and forcing them to import students from outside the district. Now a “Dear Colleague” letter from three Obama cabinet secretaries makes it clear that AFFH is going to be used for precisely these purposes.

[meyer]

Virtually every attempt at forced integration has failed miserably, dragging the student body as a whole down to the lowest common denominator and increasing racial tension. It’s not done to help anybody, it’s done to punish success and weaken the strong.

[sergeantdave]

Preserving local governments and schools would require so-called conservatives getting off their fat butts, organizing and getting involved. I don’t know if that’s possible. There’s kitchen additions to build, ribs to barbecue, Mammon to worship, etc., etc.