Trump Was Right: Stanford Law Says Public Schools Create Racial Hierarchy

Trump Was Right: Stanford Law Says Public Schools Create Racial Hierarchy

"...Stanford Law and Policy Lab...have identified the problem but are pursuing an epic failure with their solution. 

It seems the top-tier school has finally figured out that tying children to failing schools by their zip codes systematically oppresses black and brown children. 

President Trump knew that when he called school choice the civil rights issue of our time. 

However, Stanford is taking the standard approach of over-educated leftists. 

As is typical, they detected disparate outcomes in a system they are evaluating, they blamed it on racism and their first instinct was to lower the standards.

...Recently I wrote about a teen in Baltimore who only passed three classes in his entire high school career. Even more shocking, with a GPA of 0.13, his class rank was 62 out of 120 students

...The soft bigotry of low expectations is evident in Stanford’s approach and New York City public schools’ approach.  

Both promote the idea that we should not expect minority children to meet behavioral or academic standards to address disparate outcomes. 

What they are proposing is lowering the bar or reducing services to all children. 

The 58 students in Baltimore will not leave school with more skills if you lower the standards. 

New York City schools’ performance also continues to decline with an increasing number of social justice solutions...Read all.