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[johniegrad]

Welcome to FR.

[cynicom]

Bush will not read the part about racial preferences.

[headsonpikes]

Geez...Bennett sounds like a libertarian, all of a sudden. ;^)

Educational reform is impossible--educational revolution is what is required.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

By dint of his efforts to win consensus, Mr. Bush has won a second "hundred days" in which to press his agenda.

He has staked out aggressive positions on tax policy and on his judicial nominees. What most remains, it seems to me, is in his education policy.

We have seen the "smaller class size" mantra fail utterly. And now we have fabulous costs and still no real education, yet we hear that private schools are not a viable option. But how many college-educated retirees might not be tempted to tutor a few children for a salary of $11,000 per head, per school year?

Government education cannot be reformed from within; it must face competition from without or "reform" will remain a facade for business as usual. Vouchers are not Constitutionally suspect. Indeed, discrimination against institutions which are religiously motivated to provide superior education as judged by the people who actually care about the individual students--their parents--is unconstitutional religious discrimination. Vouchers are the soverign remedy for government-school nonfeasance.

[TLBSHOW]

Bennett advises that in the coming year a civil rights agenda should be crafted around three action items:

• Ending the double standard of racial preferences in higher education admissions: The Bush Administration and Members of Congress should immediately file an amicus brief with the Supreme Court on behalf of the plaintiffs in Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger.



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[lodwick]

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[GOPJ]

William J. Bennett is on the money. Truth bump...

[Romulus]

Any "civil rights" agenda that ignores the right to life is worthless.

Hard to believe, but there was a time when I was a fan of Bill Bennett.