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Obama’s Executive Order To Make Inner City Schools Greatby
Gary North Recently by Gary North: The Monetization of Everything
President Obama has signed an executive order. He has set up a new bureaucracy. This bureaucracy plans to make inner-city education so good that whites will move back. You remain skeptical? O, ye of little faith! This executive order has this goal: to give black children top-flight public education, which means non-flight education. Blacks who have been able to get out of inner-city school districts have been fleeing for several decades. This is what the President is trying to stop. There is a problem with his plan: public education. It has been declining visibly for approximately 100 years, give or take a decade. The decline has sped up over the last 50 years. For blacks, the decline has been a disaster. The inner-city schools have been deliberately dumbed down as policy. Thomas Sowell has written on several occasions about the all-black high school in Washington, D.C.: Dunbar High School. From 1870 to 1955, it provided education as good as any white district’s program. (It was surely better than mine, 1955-59.) It taught Latin. It taught advanced courses in science. Its students went to college. Ralph Bunche was one of its graduates. It was deliberately dumbed down half a century ago as a matter of district policy. President Obama intends to smarten up the inner-city schools. How will he do this? With a new bureaucracy.
His executive order is a litany on the failure of tax-funded education in America. It’s hard to fault him on this. The problem is this: the federal government has been laying down the law to school districts for 40 years. The schools have gotten worse. Dr. Charles Sykes’ book has it right: Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves, But Can’t Read, Write, or Add. Candidate Ronald Reagan vowed to shut down the Department of Education. Its budget went up every year he was in office. Obama’s executive order is nothing short of messianic. It proposes to achieve the following.
And how will his executive order achieve all this? By providing lots of jobs in Washington!
I can see the progress! I can see the SAT scores rising! I can see hope restored in inner cities! And all this from a man who never spent a day in an American tax-funded school. Only in America! Continue Reading the executive order on www.whitehouse.gov July 31, 2012 Gary North [send him mail] is the author of Mises on Money. Visit http://www.garynorth.com. He is also the author of a free 31-volume series, An Economic Commentary on the Bible. Copyright © 2012 Gary North
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The Initiative’s Executive Director may establish subgroups
of the Working Group to focus on different aspects of the educational
system (such as early childhood education, K-12 education, higher
education (including HBCUs and PBIs), career and technical education,
adult education, or correctional education and reengagement) or
educational challenges facing particular populations of African
Americans (such as young men, disconnected or out-of-school youth,
individuals with disabilities, children identified as gifted and
talented, single-parent households, or adults already in the workforce).