Bobby Jindal is winning the school choice argument

By: John Hayward, 9/5/2013

Attorney General Eric Holder’s effort to use ancient desegregation laws to kill Louisiana’s school choice program is “bewildering, if not downright perverse,” “ridiculous,” “absurd,” and “appalling,” according to… the Washington Post, in an editorial that might qualify as the strongest punch this liberal paper has ever thrown at the Obama Administration:

Nine of 10 Louisiana children who receive vouchers to attend private schools are black. All are poor and, if not for the state assistance, would be consigned to low-performing or failing schools with little chance of learning the skills they will need to succeed as adults. So it’s bewildering, if not downright perverse, for the Obama administration to use the banner of civil rights to bring a misguided suit that would block these disadvantaged students from getting the better educational opportunities they are due.

The Post’s editors don’t think much of the Justice Department’s argument that vouchers will ruin the delicate racial balance of the student bodies at failing public schools:.....To Read More.....