Posted on 04/02/2013 5:11:09 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
Keeping with his race-based ideology, President Obama has named the nation’s first African American education czar to focus on improving the academic performance of black students and countering the discrimination that persists in public schools around the country.
The official title is Executive Director of White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans and the task is to reduce “racial isolation and resegregation of elementary and secondary schools.” Despite decades-old desegregation laws, “substantial obstacles” to equal educational opportunities still remain in America’s public school system, according to the president. Therefore the academic performance of black students has for decades lagged behind whites and other ethnic minorities.
So last summer the commander-in-chief issued an executive order to create a special White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans. The goal is to tackle a rampant crisis of perpetually low academic performance and high dropout rates among black students. 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, according to the executive order.
President Obama also threw this often-cited statistic into his race-based educational excellence executive order: “African American males also experience disparate rates of incarceration.” Presumably, his new initiative will bring the numbers down. The effort includes the creation of a new President’s Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for African Americans and a special “working group” consisting of senior officials from the departments of Justice, Education, Labor and White House Domestic Policy Council.
The idea is to provide the support that will enable African American students to improve their level of educational achievement through rigorous and well-rounded academic and support services that will prepare them for college, a career, and a lifetime of learning.” The new black education czar, David J. Johns, will work to identify evidence-based best practices to improve African American student achievement from cradle to career, according to an announcement issued by the Education Department.
Of interesting note is that the administration is actually paying states to set new academic achievement targets based on race and income, with lower goals for black, Hispanic and poor kids and higher ones for whites and Asians. Washington D.C. became the first American public school system to adapt the new race-based standards last fall. A federal education official explained in a mainstream newspaper that the administration is just “trying to be realistic about what’s achievable.”
A few weeks later Florida adopted the unprecedented race-based achievement targets for all of the 2.6 million students that attend the state’s 3,629 public schools. Like the area surrounding the nation’s capital, the Sunshine State set higher reading and math achievement standards for Asians and white students and lower goals for blacks and Hispanics. This seems to contradict the president’s executive order to improve educational outcomes for African Americans of all ages by, among other things, eliminating “substantial obstacles to equal education” and offering “challenging college-preparatory classes.”
Another black guy with a $150,000 salary doing a job that is total bullshyt.
There isn’t one.
I wish there was a high powered lawyer out there with the cajones to sue them on equal protection grounds. And while they’re at, go after BET, United Negro College Fund, ect.
It looks like he hates blacks and he thinks they are inferior to other races.
How many Black officials and politicians send their own children to public school? Why not?
Ah, there's a name for this... can't quite think of it... it's on the tip of my tongue, uh...
Betcha Johns will pull down at least $175K/yr.
No, I think it’s more like they’re doing in Chicago. No wait - maybe it was Detroit.
And what did that one black teacher say about why she cheated for the students? “Because they’re dumb as hell”. Result of low expectations. Look at Dr. Benjamin Carson and the result of his mother’s high expectations.
An Obama crony and his posse needed jobs, so the pResident did them a solid. Just more wastrel BS from this administration.
Busing was supposed to cure the problem of black underachievement in the 60’s.
With a staff of 500 family and friends, attending frequent conferences in Hawaii, Bermuda, and elsewhere.
The acorn doesn’t fall far from the tree, and no improvement will come because the black community is a wreck. The streets are full of “the walking dead.”
This is how his community thinks things work. In a way he is right. This is the way the elite does things. The Ivy league produces “suits”like this who advance because they have attended such colleges. Obama is one of them.
We have resegregated to survive and put our kids in non lethal schools
So please kindly go puck yourself
its like they want their whole american black population to be wiped out...
“hate to say it but there is a whole group of blacks regressing in intelligence and civility....they are producing lower intelligent kids...
its like they want their whole american black population to be wiped out...”
I get the impression sometimes that this was LBJ’s original intent with his “great socitiy” and “civil rights” programs.
I however do not want the black population to be wiped out, so we are going to need to figure out how to help them save themselves.
More perks and privileges for Black kids - all in the name of “equality of opportunity.”
More Obama horse sh*t.
Well, considering that Obama's dog handler gets about $100K per year...
Maybe this EEO education Czar can get started over @ Bloomturd’s Dept’ fo’ Education. Smart Czar Johns will bring that 80% illiterate rate down very quickly. Cheating will not be acceptable.
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