Source: JimBovard.com
by James Bovard
“More than 150 years ago, abolitionist Frederick Douglass declared, ‘Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.’ But federal education policymakers have prevented legions of kids from reaching that road to freedom. No modern American president did more than Barack Obama to canonize bigoted standards in federal education policy. President Obama championed subsidies for public schools so that ‘the federal government can play a leading role in encouraging the … high standards we need.’ But, as part of its convoluted plans to reduce the achievement gap, the Obama administration cajoled most states into setting lower academic goals for blacks and Hispanics. From 2009 onwards, the feds rubber-stamped official plans under which white and Asian students were expected to perform far better than black and Hispanic students.” (03/18/25)
https://jimbovard.com/blog/2025/03/18/feds-have-been-main-source-of-racial-bigotry-in-classrooms/