IN CASE YOU MISSED IT Gov. Jindal: Next Civil Rights Fight About Making Sure Every Child Has A Great Education Governor Bobby Jindal Meet the Press August 25, 2013 Governor Jindal: “When it comes to the American Dream, I think the next great civil rights fight is really about making sure that every child has a great education. Look at all those disparity numbers and it really comes down to making sure that every American has a chance to get a great paying job – it starts with a great education. Let’s be honest, we all like to say we are for equal opportunity in education, but that’s not the reality in America. If your parents have the means, they probably move to a good neighborhood with good public schools or they’re saving their dollars to send you to a good private school. There are too many kids in this country today trapped in poor neighborhoods, with poor failing public schools. In Louisiana, we’re doing something about it. 90 percent of our kids in New Orleans are in charter schools. In five years, we doubled the percentage of kids doing reading and math on grade level. We’ve now taken a program statewide so the dollars can follow the child. Too many people are still standing in the way. The teacher unions are fighting against that. Just on Friday, the Department of Justice said they were going to go to court. Now listen to this, we’ve got a scholarship program: 100% of the kids are low-income, 100% of the kids are in failing schools - C, D, or F schools, 90% of the kids are minorities. Eight thousand of those parents have chosen to take these dollars and send their kids to better schools, to other schools where they can get a better education, where it is a better fit for their children. Now the Department of Justice is using the same rules that were there to prevent discrimination against minority children and is going after some of these parents and some of these kids and saying, ‘we don’t know that we want to allow you to make this choice. We want you to have to go a federal judge.’ We need to provide a great education for every child.” Watch The Full Clip Here: youtube/watch?v=fE13cRbbChQ&feature=youtu.be
Posted on: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 19:59:23 +0000
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