The Cape Charles Rosenwald School Restoration Initiative was awarded a $100,000 African American Heritage grant from the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Part or all of the grant will be used for the restoration of their windows.
The African American Heritage Grant, funded by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, offers financial resources to a wide range of projects that contribute to the conservation and celebration of African American heritage. The grant fund is used to recognize, preserve, and celebrate the enduring legacy of African Americans by investing in the preservation of historic sites, promoting educational initiatives, and supporting organizations dedicated to African American heritage.
The grant paves the way for a more inclusive understanding of American history. Through these efforts, the National Trust for Historic Preservation encourages the exploration, appreciation, and protection of African American cultural heritage for generations to come.
Some notable success stories include the restoration of significant African American churches, the establishment of cultural heritage centers, the documentation of oral histories, and the revitalization of historic neighborhoods.
Uncle Sam says
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-affirmative-action-college-race-f83d6318017ec9b9029b12ee2256e744
Time to sink or swim…
Paul R. Plante says
Karmela Harris, dumber than a box of rocks and twice as ignorant, yet still possessed with a law degree, is a poster child for everything wrong with affirmative action which was a quota system giving free rides to people like her and Hussein Obama, who turned “getting over” into an art form as he spent his HS years smoking dope and snorting coke because he was getting a free ride that carried him through law school as well.
Affirmative action made a joke out of college degrees which today are worthless pieces of paper because the standards kept getting lowered, and that is speaking as someone who taught at the college level with the command to not let them fail, which makes college a mill, and for that reason, I left and never looked back and today, would I hire someone merely because they had a piece of paper that says it is a college degree?
No way in hell because it means nothing!
J Wheaton says
“Affirmative action made a joke out of college degrees which today are worthless pieces of paper because the standards kept getting lowered,” No, it didn’t! What made a joke out of college degrees is business itself. Requiring a college degree for a job that pays $10 per hr. Requiring a Masters Degree for a job that pays 15hr. That is what is making the college degree a joke, not affirmative action.
Editor’s Note: J, the article never mentions anything about affirmative action. The quote you use does not appear any where in the piece.
Paul R. Plante says
The quote J Wheaton refers to is from my response to Uncle Sam and his reference to affirmative action, and has nothing to do with the Rosenwald School, and so could be considered “off-topic.”
Still in all, I stand by what I said, and having taught at the “college” level, I can attest to having first-hand knowledge of how the standards have been lowered across the board to the point of ridiculousness, and I am very familiar with the command that thou shalt not fail anyone, pass them through, keep the mill wheels turning.
Students come in from HS unable to think, unable to read, unable to write, unable to do math, but pass them through, anyway and don’t make waves and then you get tenure, and summers off, and then you get to retire, so don’t question the system.
Except being me, I did.
I had the temerity to fail an affirmative action student who deserved to fail, in my estimation, and caught holy hell for it from the administration, which convinced me to leave.
And nothing changed and has only gotten worse.
I tried to give essay question tests, and what a disaster that was, because people can’t write coherently, can’t spell correctly, can’t express themselves, so easy multiple choice tests become the norm, and if they can’t pass a multiple choice test, you give them a C or probably an A today.
And people call that a college education and wonder why we have idiots in elective office, which of course is a separate subject in and off itself.
And where are people finding jobs requiring a college degree to make $10/hour?
That’s an absurd statement.
McDonald’s pays at least $15/hour and requires no college.
Colleges have become degree mills, with a focus on making as much money as possible, and to make that money (hey, college administrators deserve to be wealthy, afterall), they need to run students through like cattle, with none of the herd being culled.
Colleges no longer cure ignorance, they instead cater to it, because if they didn’t, the bottom line would suffer and so deprive the administrators and faculty of the upscale lifestyle they are so deserving of, and there is where we now are in America, once the land of the brave and home of the free, and now a hollow mockery of its former self which isn’t coming back in our lifetimes, J Wheaton, because ignorant people cannot build a strong country, they only take if further down.
Off-topic, but thanks for bringing it up, anyway.
And to see what colleges today are actually producing, this Jay Leno JayWalking: Jay Interviews College Students – May 10, 2019 clip says it all:
https://www.google.com/search?q=jay+leno%2C+jay-walking+on+college+campuses&source=hp&ei=pKGeZK_KHtLdptQPx5G-gAM&iflsig=AOEireoAAAAAZJ6vtNV4JYxYkjjPCCkGadF2XsVR4zyW&ved=0ahUKEwivrOGv2Or_AhXSrokEHceIDzAQ4dUDCAs&uact=5&oq=jay+leno%2C+jay-walking+on+college+campuses&gs_lcp=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&sclient=gws-wiz#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:4ed8180a,vid:KXWTQobaMaQ
Nioaka Marshall says
McDonald’s pays $13 per hour.
Paul R. Plante says
McDonald’s Cashier Hourly Pay in Albany, NY
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As of July 1, 2021, all fast food workers in New York State must make at least $15.00 per hour.
James D. Metz says
Off-topic is an understatement. Overturning Affirmative Action leaves unanswered how the US is to address inequities in education that we tolerate as a nation. The Cape Charles Elementary School is a testament to the African-American families in Cape Charles who, when denied public support for the education of their children, banded together, applied for a grant from the Rosenwald Fund, and built a school to educate their children. Education is a public good that demands public funding.
Paul R. Plante says
James, like most of the people we meet on the Cape Charles Mirror, a grand palladium of the liberty of each and every one of us, regardless of race, color, gender or lack thereof, or creed, you sound nice and you sound sincere in your belief that you tolerate what you call inequities in education, without making any mention of what those might actually be in real life, as if what you are tolerating is happening all over America in every single one of the 13,800 public school districts in this country, which I personally think is a stretch on your part, unless you have some meaningful data to share with us about educational opportunities in each and every one of them, or on each and every one of the nearly 4,000 colleges in America, but you obviously either cannot read and assimilate, or you choose not to, preferring vincible ignorance over enlightenment, because affirmative action itself was highly discriminatory, excluding highly qualified Orientals, who are considered second-class citizens by affirmative action, in favor of a minimum quota of less qualified people, merely because of their skin color.
While that is an inequity that you were tolerant, not so the Supreme Court, and thankfully so.
As to affirmative action, this is what the Harvard Crimson had to say in the article “In Concurrences to Supreme Court Ruling, Thomas, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh Question Benefits of Affirmative Action” by Paton D. Roberts and Claire Yuan, Crimson Staff Writers, 29 June 2023, to wit:
Concurrences in Thursday’s Supreme Court decision, which severely restricted affirmative action in college admissions, further challenged the legal foundations and impacts of race-conscious admissions.
The ruling comes out of anti-affirmative action group Students for Fair Admissions’ first lawsuit against the University in 2014.
In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court also ruled against the University of North Carolina and its admissions practices.
Thomas grounded his concurrence — extending nearly 20 pages longer than Roberts’ opinion — in an extensive history of Supreme Court decisions, legislation, and political theory.
He argued that affirmative action amounts to racial discrimination under the Constitution and provided an “originalist defense of the colorblind Constitution.”
In his opinion, he also aimed to expand on the “flaws of the Court’s Grutter jurisprudence.”
Grutter v. Bollinger — a 2003 case allowing the continued use of race as a factor in student admissions processes — hinged on the “educational benefits of a diverse student body.”
Though Thomas acknowledged that “exposure to different perspectives and thoughts can foster debate, sharpen young minds, and hone students’ reasoning skills,” he found it “not clear how diversity with respect to race, qua race, furthers this goal.”
Rather than increasing the overall number of Black and Hispanic students in college, Thomas argued, affirmative action serves to “redistribute individuals among institutions of higher learning, placing some into more competitive institutions than they otherwise would have attended.”
He wrote that policies like affirmative action are “leading to a world in which everyone is defined by their skin color, demanding ever-increasing entitlements and preferences on that basis.”
Thomas also took issue with the universities themselves.
Referencing Harvard’s past antisemitic admissions policies and its “prominent role in the eugenics movement,” Thomas said neither Harvard nor UNC’s histories place them as “trustworthy arbiters” of the necessity of affirmative action.
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Do you find yourself in disagreement with any of that, pray tell?
And if so, why?
As to the Rosenwald schools, James, and I am surprised you don’t know this, between 1917 and 1932, approximately 5,500 Rosenwald schools were built in the United States as far north as Maryland and as far west as Oklahoma and in Virginia, a total of 382 Rosenwald Schools/auxiliary buildings were built between 1917 and 1932.
Now, by my math, and no, I don’t claim to have a Ph.D. in math, we are talking about almost one hundred years ago, so I am not sure what meaning you are giving to your words about inequities that existed over 100 years ago that the Rosenwald schools were meant to overcome, as if nothing since then has changed.
Encyclopedia Virginia has this to say about Rosenwald schools, to wit:
Rosenwald schools were educational facilities built with the assistance of the Rosenwald rural school building program, an initiative to narrow racial schooling gaps in the South by constructing better, more-accessible schools for African Americans.
They are called Rosenwald schools because they were partially funded by grants from the Rosenwald Fund, a foundation established by Julius Rosenwald, an Illinois businessman and philanthropist.
Between 1912 and 1932, the program helped produce 5,357 new educational facilities for African Americans across fifteen southern states, providing almost 700,000 African American children in rural, isolated communities with state-of-the-art facilities at a time when little to no public money was put toward black education.
In Virginia, the initiative helped fund 382 schools and support buildings in seventy-nine counties.
Most of these buildings remained in operation until Virginia was forced to comply with the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education (1954), which outlawed racial segregation in public schools.
1954 is sixty-nine (69) years ago now, James.
The past is over, which will probably make you less nervous and high-strung about things that no longer exist, which should help your digestion as well as helping you sleep at night, knowing that in America today, as opposed to America some other yesterday, the black folk are just as equal as any white person.
And James, since you sound nice, have a wonderful day.
Uncle Sam says
It is obvious you voted for Bath-House Barry, Hillary, China-Joe and Kamal-Toe.
You are part of the problem.
Paul R. Plante says
And since James has brought up the history of the Rosenwald schools, which indeed is interesting, let us go back to Encyclopedia Virginia for more background, to wit:
The rural school building program began in 1912 as a collaboration between Booker T. Washington, the head of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, and Rosenwald, one of the institute’s trustees and the president of Sears, Roebuck and Company.
Washington held that impoverished African Americans could improve economic and social conditions by educating themselves — but at the time, public school facilities for blacks in the rural South were inadequate at best and nonexistent at worst.
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For the record, I was studying about Booker T. Washington when I was in fifth grade in the 1950’s and still think highly of him, because he was for personal responsibility, as opposed to the “Nanny State” we have today, which takes us back for more, to wit:
By providing matching funds to stimulate the construction of safe, sanitary school buildings in rural areas, Washington hoped to improve the state of public education for African Americans and, by extension, African American society as a whole.
Rosenwald was a self-made millionaire and progressive whose philanthropic beliefs aligned with Washington’s philosophy of self-reliance.
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WOW – self-reliance, and what an antiquated term that has become in the “Nanny State” of America today!
Getting back to relevant history of what once was, but is no more, we have:
Washington convinced him to allocate part of a larger donation to the Tuskegee Institute toward helping to fund the construction of six schools in rural Alabama.
After the success of this initial test, Rosenwald agreed to contribute private funds to build more school buildings.
The Program
Washington and Rosenwald structured the program to engage the communities it benefited: rather than financing the entire construction project, Rosenwald provided partial funds — no more than half the total cost of the project — that had to be matched by the community and by a county school board appropriation.
Grants were paid only after matching funds had been secured and construction had been approved.
Community members could match the funding in money or in kind, by deeding over land for the project or contributing labor or materials.
The types of buildings that could be constructed with the help of a Rosenwald incentive grant included schools, teacher housing, and shop buildings (for vocational instruction).
These structures had to meet an established set of modern safety and sanitation standards and were to follow one of several pre-established architectural plans.
The plans varied based on the size of the community being served: most of the schools built in the early stages of the program were small one- or two-teacher schools, but plans were later standardized for structures that could support up to eleven teachers.
The blueprints incorporated the latest thinking in school design: the wood-frame or brick structures were modest but high-functioning, typically featuring bands of large east- or west-facing windows to provide ample light in regions without access to electricity.
The plans were initially developed in 1915 by architecture professors at the Tuskegee Institute; by 1920, the Rosenwald Fund published a series of designs by the program director, Samuel L. Smith, under the title Community School Plans.
The book also contained recommendations for nearly every aspect of a school’s physical development, including location, construction materials, blackboard and desk placement, paint colors, and even the types of plants that should beautify school grounds.
The principles set forth for Rosenwald schools influenced school architects throughout the United States, in communities that were Black and white, rural and urban.
The program, originally based in the extension department of the Tuskegee Institute, grew rapidly in its first five years.
By 1917, the demand for grants had outstripped the capacity of the college to manage the far-flung venture — now serving fifteen southern states — so Rosenwald set up his own philanthropic foundation, the Julius Rosenwald Fund, to run the program.
(Washington had died two years earlier, in 1915.)
In 1920 he moved the operation to Nashville, Tennessee.
There, employees of the program identified willing school officials, processed applications, and supervised school construction.
Another philanthropic organization, John D. Rockefeller’s General Education Board, paid for agents at the state level to secure commitments from county school officials and submit to Nashville annual wish lists of the numbers and types of schools desired.
By 1928, one of every five schools for blacks in the South was a Rosenwald school.
Edwin Rogers Embree replaced an elderly, ailing Rosenwald as president of the Rosenwald Fund in 1928.
At this time the fund was reorganized and shifted its focus to public health initiatives, leadership programs, and higher education.
Embree discontinued the Rosenwald rural school building program in 1932, the year of Rosenwald’s death.
After 1954, when the United States Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education forbade racial segregation in public education, many counties closed their Rosenwald schools in the 1960s and 1970s as they began to integrate Black and white students.
Newer Rosenwald-assisted buildings — by then more than twenty years old — were sometimes incorporated into county desegregation plans or repurposed.
The rural school building program began funding projects in Virginia in 1917.
Between 1917 and 1932, Rosenwald funds helped build 382 schools and support buildings in seventy-nine Virginia counties.
The majority of these buildings conformed to the smaller, one- or two-teacher designs, though schools big enough to accommodate ten and eleven teachers were built in Henrico and Prince Edward counties, respectively.
The rural school building program’s involvement in Virginia reached its peak between 1923 and 1924, when forty-five Rosenwald-assisted schools were constructed.
The number of Rosenwald schools that exist in Virginia today is not known.
Some have been renovated and restored to community use, such as Rappahannock County‘s Scrabble School, which reopened in May 2009 as a senior center.
In 2002, the National Trust for Historic Preservation placed all Rosenwald schools in the United States on its list of most endangered historic buildings.
James D. Metz says
Paul,
Your posts about the history of the Rosenwald Fund and its impact on secondary education illustrate what I would call being on-topic. The other comments, which chose to use the article as an opportunity to celebrate the demise of Affirmative Action, miss the irony of their position. Affirmative Action was intended to address the inequities in secondary education at the college level. Was if perfect? No. Are there better alternatives to Affirmative Action? Perhaps. Rosenwald and Booker T. Washington chose to address educational inequities at the secondarty level. With public support, perhaps Rosenwald-Washinton is today’s alternative.
Paul R. Plante says
James, you use the word “inequity” over and over and over without once ever saying exactly what supposed “inequities” you are talking about.
And you seem to want to have it be a one way street applying only to black people.
I think it was an inequity to hand Hussein Obama and Karmela Harris law degrees simply because they were black, while others who aren’t black either were denied a chance at the degree because of Obama and Karmela, or had to work hard to obtain the degree.
As to Booker T. Washington, the same Booker T. Washington involved with the Rosenwald program:
Why did Booker T. Washington create the Tuskegee Institute?
He was committed to improving the lives of African-Americans after the Civil War.
Washington advocated economic independence through self-help, hard work, and a practical education.
His drive and vision built Tuskegee into a major African-American presence and place of learning.
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Your affirmative action turned his philosophy on its ear, especially the HARD WORK component of it, and no better example of that can be found than Hussein Obama, a free rider guaranteed a degree for not other reason than that he was black, so while others studied and worked hard, Hussein smoked dope and snorted coke and so became a role model for what was wrong with affirmative action.
I am for the approach of Booker T. Washington!
How come you are not?
I came from poverty (yes, there actually used to be people with white skin in the country who were poor, it wasn’t only the blacks) and I have a college degree that I actually had to work for, both by studying and by holding a job at the same time, which used to be known as the American way – you want something, get off your dead *** and work for it.
What do you see wrong with that philosophy today, James?
James D. Metz says
The reply I posted under “Rosenwald School Awarded $100k” was meant to mine the irony I found in the other posts. Isn’t it ironic that the writers of these posts would use an article about the Cape Charles Rosenwald School Restoration Initiative receiving a grant to restore the Cape Charles Elementary School as the occasion for praising the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Affirmative Action. There were inequities in school funding during the Jim Crow era, and, as long as school funding is dependent on real estate taxes, there will be inequities in school funding during the post Affirmative Action era.
Uncle Sam says
The USA has no responsibility for anyone’s inequities. Not yours or mine, and certainty not the 13% of our population that commits over 70% of all violent crime.
Paul R. Plante says
Uh, James, you are talking grade school and high school, while affirmative action, a highly discriminatory liberal policy, applied to colleges like Harvard.
Grade school and high school are mandatory, everybody below a certain age has to go regardless of skin color, hence, no need for affirmative action.
College is not mandatory, but the liberals, emotionally-overloaded shallow thinkers that they are, always looking to impose their views on others, through their affirmative action, tried to make it mandatory that colleges hand out worthless pieces of paper called college degrees to free riders like Hussein Obama and Karmela Harris, simply because they were black, a quota system that discriminated against everyone who was not born black like Hussein and Karmela.
So it is indeed ironic that you are trying to make affirmative action apply to high schools, when it clearly does not.
David Moore says
I’m with Uncle!
Paul R. Plante says
And James, while we are on the subject of sub-standard education in America today and continually lowering standards, which are responsible for the idiots who get elected to public office, by people even more ignorant than them, and poor reading comprehension skills, you have totally missed the point that Booker T. Washington, a black man actually born a slave who rose above it, would have been against the affirmative action that made a joke out of so-called college degrees, empty pieces of paper, in actuality, handed out to free riders like Hussein Obama and Karmela Harris.
At age 9, Washington was freed from slavery, at which time, and this is basic American history, James, I learned in fifth grade back in the 1950’s by reading books, the young Washington took a job in a salt mine that started at 4:00 a.m. so that he could attend school later in the day.
Washington held that impoverished African Americans could improve economic and social conditions by educating themselves.
He was not for liberal handouts like Obama and Karmela were granted to make them appear “educated” because they had an empty piece of paper called a law degree.
Washington’s philosophy was called self-reliance for the black folk, and what an out-dated concept that has become in this version of America which is a true NANNY STATE.
Catch a fish for someone and they eat that day; teach them to fish, and they can eat every day.
Affirmative action was a joke and Booker T. Washington would have been the first to say so!
If it was up to Booker T. Washington, neither Obama or Karmela would ever have been handed a college degree, because neither ever had to work for it, which Booker T. Washington would have been dead-set against.
Paul R. Plante says
And talk about the Democrats in America today turning the vision of Booker T. Washington that resulted in the Rosenwald schools on its ear, here is an article from Fox News titled “Supreme Court affirmative action decision reveals Democrat hypocrisy” by Liz Peek on 5 July 2023, that should help enlighten James Metz about the operative reality in America today that turns out the ignorant people required by the Democrats to elect the ******* idiots the Democrats put up for office in America today, starting with the office of president, to wit:
Do Democrats actually care about educating minority kids?
Leftist outrage greeted the Supreme Court’s recent ruling banning affirmative action.
That anger is misplaced; it should be directed at the failing inner city public schools that graduate generation after generation of black and brown children incapable of succeeding in college, or in life.
If every child in the United States were receiving a decent education, we would not need affirmative action.
Associate Justice Sotomayor wrote in her dissenting opinion that the Court’s decision blocking race-based admissions “creates a leadership pipeline that is less diverse than our increasingly diverse society, reserving “positions of influence, affluence and prestige in America” for a predominantly white pool of college graduates.”
Sorry, Ms. Sotomayor, the funneling of minority kids away from that leadership pipeline occurs long before college and has little to do with the admissions’ policies of our prestigious universities.
It has everything to do, instead, with black and brown children not learning to read or do simple math in our public schools.
It has everything to do with the stultifying resistance of the teachers’ unions to any innovation or reform; everything to do with Democrat politicians who ignore the failures of an education establishment which condemns young people to lives as second-class citizens, at best.
Jamaal Bowman, representative from New York’s 16th district was especially unhappy.
“The Supreme Court has yet again taken us back in time by barring institutions of higher education from using race-conscious admissions policies,” he said.
Note that Mr. Bowman represents a district that includes southern Westchester and the Bronx, as well as the town of Wakefield.
The students of Wakefield’s elementary school are almost entirely black and brown, and the great majority were not learning at grade level even before the pandemic.
Specifically, only 37 percent of black children at Wakefield’s school were considered proficient in English language arts and only 28 percent of Hispanic kids made the cut.
In math, 33 percent of blacks made the grade and only 20 percent of Hispanics.
Wakefield is not unique; New York State data overall is even worse.
School officials in New York and in other Democrat-run states hope to hide such unacceptable performance by eliminating student testing and grades; they have also eased graduation requirements, hoping puzzled parents won’t notice that their children cannot do the work necessary at the next level.
Worse, Democrat officials have cruelly blocked the spread of charter schools which, with their documented success in educating minority kids, show what a sham the public system is.
The left says standardized testing is racist, but recent scores posted by minority children at public charter school Success Academy, prove that’s a lie.
Eighth graders at all Success schools, mostly low-income minorities, recently took New York Regents tests meant for high school juniors and seniors.
Some 99 percent passed the algebra exam and 95 percent passed the English test, way outperforming public high school students.
A recent study by the College Board shows that 60 percent of those who make it through New York’s high schools are not remotely prepared for higher education; the kids from Success Academy will be ready.
And, they won’t need affirmative action.
Jamaal Bowman’s bio describes him as a prominent education advocate; it lauds as a seminal achievement his promotion of the “opt-out movement to steer our schools away from broken standardized testing.”
What could possibly be worse for families hoping to track their children’s progress?
Who benefits from ditching standardized testing?
The teachers unions, of course, which pushed to abandon assessments nation-wide because they didn’t want teachers exposed to any objective and fact-based appraisals.
On Bowman’s website he solicits donations, claiming “that Our movement does not accept money from Corporate PACs or lobbyists, and depends entirely on contributions from people like you.”
Except that the teachers unions gave him $22,500 in 2022 alone and more than $33,000 overall, according to Open Secrets.
Of course, that’s just the money part.
The teachers unions spends tens of millions of dollars each year funding mostly Democrat candidates also turn out hundreds of thousands of “volunteers” across the nation to harvest ballots and get out the vote.
Bowman’s other claim to fame is that he founded and served as principal of a school called the Cornerstone Academy for Social Action in the Bronx, which he claims on his website has “become one of the best public middle schools in the city.”
That’s an astonishing claim since the percentage of kids scoring 3-4 on the 2021-2022 state math exam was 21 percent compared to the citywide average of 51 percent, while only 18 percent reached that level on the state reading exam, compared to 50 percent for the city overall.
No wonder Bowman thinks affirmative action is essential; there’s no way kids enrolled in his school or in similar schools have a shot at higher education without a significantly tilted playing field.
Jamaal Bowman is not special, except that he outrageously boasts of being an educator; almost every Democrat is complicit in turning a blind eye to the failure of our public schools and the damage done to the hopes and dreams of minority children left behind by that underperformance.
Condemning kids to second-class status does not matter; the dollars spewed by the teachers unions are more important.
So, expressing outrage at the Supreme Court for banning colleges’ use of race to admit students is the height of hypocrisy.
How about focusing on making sure kids of all colors have the academic preparation necessary to get into schools on their own merit instead?
Drop the bigotry of low expectations and enact real reforms in our schools, letting every kid learn and compete.
George W. Bush called education the “great civil rights issue of our time.”
He was right; tragically, Democrats do not care.