Posted on 09/12/2016 2:34:44 PM PDT by jazusamo
Ordinarily, it is not a good idea to base how you vote on just one issue. But if black lives really matter, as they should matter like all other lives, then it is hard to see any racial issue that matters as much as education.
The government could double the amount of money it spends on food stamps or triple the amount it spends on housing subsidies, and it will mean very little if the next generation of young blacks goes out into the world as adults without a decent education.
Many things that are supposed to help blacks actually have a track record of making things worse. Minimum wage laws have had a devastating effect in making black teenage unemployment several times higher than it once was.
In my own life, I was very fortunate when I left home in 1948, at age 17 — a high school dropout with no skills or experience. At that time, the unemployment rate of black 16- and 17-year-old males was 9.4 percent. For white males the same ages, it was 10.2 percent.
Why were these unemployment rates so much lower than we have become used to seeing in later times — and with very little difference between blacks and whites?
What was different about those times was that the minimum wage, established in 1938, had been rendered meaningless by a decade of high inflation. It was the same as if there were no minimum wage.
(Excerpt) Read more at creators.com ...
Just ax Connecticut, charter schools are not the whole panacea for fixing education. In theory, they *sound* good ... but in actuality are failing.
http://www.ncsl.org/documents/educ/EDU_International_final_v3.pdf
http://www.courant.com/education/hc-federal-suit-school-quality-0824-20160823-story.html
Maybe the most good would be to encourage marriage and long term families in the black community.
The minimum wage would be damn near meaningless now without tens of millions of illegal immigrants combined with forty plus years of slaughtering children in the womb
T.S. nails it as usual.
Yep, they are not a panacea and Dr. Sowell addresses that it the article.
Hartford [CT] jumped into the charter school bandwagon to comply with the lawsuit Sheff v O’Neil.
Several of these schools that had millions thrown at them, are now closing; one, in particular had a CEO that embezzled millions. B/c he was a person of color & well connected...years have gone by and I don’t think he has been charged with anything.
It’s always the kids, who are the bottom of the food chain who get shortchanged.
See page 6:
https://www.edreform.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/StateOfCharterSchools_CER_Dec2011-Web-1.pdf
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