Cocktails & Popcorn: Can A State Experience A Constitutional Crisis? - Michigan Child Welfare Systems Sucks

"I claim the State of Michigan in the name of the Lord
so we can save the savages by salvaging
the children's trust funds." said the christians.

Covenant House Academy is a school for homeless kids.

They just got rid of their homeless resource officer.

UPDATE: AS OF 6-27-2019, COVENANT HOUSE ACADEMY CHANGED ITS MIND ABOUT HOW THEY TREAT HOMELESS CHILDREN AND DECIDED TO RETAIN ITS HOMELESS RESOURCE OFFICER.

Ask yourself. How come this charter school, which receives federal dollars to provide for homeless children, has a 4 year old kid realize that they are not being provided for.

Here is another young man who observed the failure of the Michigan Child Welfare System, and came up with an action.

Think about that for a moment.

This is the new privatized model planned as an expansion in the industry of trafficking tiny humans through foster care and homeless children.

How can you forecast a substantial increase in this population which is now being reclassifed as "Special Needs" along with "African Americans, English as a Second Language?

Wanna know?

EDUCATION: School Re-Segregation - Brown v. Board Of Education - A Residual Of Predictive Modeling Crap Databases Of Property Ownership & Gerrymandering

The border babies are the goods to be acquired by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in foster care.

Bethany Christian got those contracts with Samaritas.

That is All Betsy DeVos.

The christians always have a plan when it comes to a manufactured crisis, particularly when it comes to mass torture and death of "The Poors".

Those are Michigan children.

But wait! it gets even better!

Guess who is about to swoop in and save the day!

Eye Roll: Hillary Swoops In To Save 'The Children' At The Southern Border

Do you want to know what they do with all that funding? 

They are running asset forfeiture through corporate guardianship running everything out the country.

These are foreign corporations, people. 

Hello? 

Has any caught on to what they are doing? 

It is called modern day human trafficking, but in this instance, it is the industry of trafficking tiny humans through Medicaid fraud and Title I schemes.

See, there are children in need of help at the border.

There must be a plan of action, which includes a new, and improved, re-engineering of child welfare by reanimating the residuals of the peculiar institution.

Happy Residuals of the Peculiar Institution Month!

I aver that not one single argument is going to be raised about the current, complete and utter debauchery called charter schools.

Seriously, how is the Michigan Supreme Court even going to touch this when everyone and their mama is waiting for Nancy Edmunds to figure out that the Michigan Child Welfare sucks, which includes all the privatization fraud schemes going on, more than likely through SACWIS, but hey, what do I know?

I know these people are also pushing those Christian Human Plantations like Vista Maria.

RELIGIOUS LAND USE AND INSTITUTIONALIZED PERSONS ACT

Then, there are those issues with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops who just so happen to be behind all those child welfare contracts, under international scrutiny for what they do that no one really wants to talk about.

These private schools are foreign corporations.

I wonder if States Supreme Courts can experience a Constitutional Crisis?

I am going to sit back and enjoy observing all the omissions in their fallacious arguments.

Michigan Supreme Court to decide controversy over private school funding

LANSING — The Michigan Supreme Court says it will decide once and for all whether the Michigan Legislature can appropriate public money for private schools.

And in making that determination, the court will consider a 2017 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that suggests a state ban on funding for private schools could violate a U.S. constitutional provision intended to protect religious liberty.

At issue is a series of Michigan budget moves in recent years in which the GOP-controlled Legislature has appropriated millions of dollars to reimburse private schools for costs they incur to comply with state mandates, such as health and safety regulations.

In an order released Tuesday, the court said it will hear an appeal of the Michigan Court of Appeals October 2018 ruling. In that decision, the court said the Legislature may reimburse private schools for the costs to comply with state health, safety and welfare laws, but only if such costs are incidental to teaching and don't involve a key school function.

In Tuesday's order, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Markman said the court needs to resolve the longstanding issue once and for all.

"The court owes the parties, and the people of this state, a final decision in this case that fairly considers all inextricably connected issues," Markman wrote.

More: Judge: Public money for private schools violates Michigan constitution

More: Grosse Pointe votes to close 2 elementary schools

"The need to fully and finally resolve the present dispute has been made especially critical by the fact that it has now been nearly three years since the Legislature (first approved such funding) and since a lower court of this state issued a preliminary injunction preventing that law from taking effect."

It's important, Markman said, that "our legislative process is no longer maintained in limbo."

Justice Elizabeth Clement will not participate in the decision due to her previous role as legal counsel to former Gov. Rick Snyder, the court said.

In the 2017 case, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a Missouri Department of Natural Resources policy of denying grants to applicants owned or controlled by a church violated the First Amendment rights of Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia to freely exercise its religion. The policy denied the church an otherwise available public benefit on account of its religious status, the court said in a 7-2 ruling.

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EDUCATION: School Re-Segregation - Brown v. Board Of Education - A Residual Of Predictive Modeling Crap Databases Of Property Ownership & Gerrymandering

Before you watch this very painful hearing of educators who are poorly educated on the history of Brown v. Board of Education, here is the condensed congressional history that they are attempting to bleach and "re-segregate".

This was basically a #clownfest of individuals who are trying to pitch their new and improved versions of history, while trying to increase their foreign corporate profits by reanimating the residuals of the peculiar institution by telling really creative tales of how they are best to steward all the public education funding for students without saying that they are going to self embolden themselves with corporate parental rights in their school model for "The Poors".

Yes, this was a privatization pitch and there was not one mention of Detroit, where it all started.

Pierre is talking about black families being dissipated? 

Linda Darling-Hammond,
Predictive Modeling Crapper
"She is creepy."

WTF?  Dude needs some serious therapy.

what the hell 

schrier is talking real estate and financial investment.

The respondents are talking about investing.

this is gerrymandering

Scott stated that submissions into the record was open until May 14th, 2019 by 5:00 p.m. 

I see nothing on the committee site but I did find this if anyone is interested in commenting you can go to the following links: 

https://edlabor.house.gov/media/share-your-research

https://edlabor.house.gov/media/share-your-story?

https://twitter.com/bobbyscott

Charter schools suck, badly.  I know.  I am in Detroit. They started here.

This is geopolitical.

Urban cities have been drained of resource as public schools were financially raped in Michigan.

Then the Emergency Manager Law came in and privatized education.

This has nothing to do with race nor education because they have transformed the entire narrative through political clowning in promoting their predictive modeling crap studies into a push for more resources, like land.

This is about land.

These foreign corporations own our schools and I speculate there are land patents involved.

This is about forced migration.

There studies are crappy data collection methodology are like harvesting wheat shafts with scythes in the hot summer sun.

John Brittain, Attorney
who has no clue about the dirty
deeds of the NAACP

Brown v. Board of Education was based on a science study, "Tanks v. Talent".

Basically, the study was a parody to the study that said, "kids who grew up reading the newspaper in the home got more scholarships for universities and performed better on tests."

The study was done in the 1950s where only "certain people" could own property.

For example, sharecroppers had no toilets.

They had outhouses, not tanks in the home.

Indoor plumbing was for the rich, who owned houses, not shacks.

People in shacks could not afford to purchase a newspaper, which means, according to the original study, would be not able to get scholarships, would not perform well on tests, and as such, would never succeed to be property owners.

Ergo, the more the toilets in the home, the smarter and more successful in life the kids.

Kim Schrier

I used to have the study found in the African American History Journal, but Jstor is privatized, and got copyright on a case used in the Brown v. Board education, so I do not know why it is not in the public domain.

These DeVos witnesses, yes, conflict of interest, are talking about privatizing to help the state with their growing foster care and homeless students populations.

This is TARP.

They stole the children, the land and the votes, creating this population of foster care and homeless students, but I did learn something new!

These witnesses have redefined race by lumping English as a Second Language population as students of color.

They are skewing dirty data.....I love it because everyone up there on the diaz in committee, including their staff, are absolutely unqualified to catch that these people are pumping some some hard core, raw, predictive modeling crap.

This Darling-Hammond just said that kids tear up the schools and get more detention but did she say anything about the schools not having heat or books?

Nope, because she comes from a wealthy school district.

I bet she hangs out with Blasey-ford over there at Stanford but I did find their charter schools think tank which is probably run by some of those trust fund babies mommy and daddy dropped millions to get them into these graduate positions.

These are the people who are doing that generational gerrymandering.

Lessons for Developing School and District Capacity to Transform Literacy Instruction: The Canterbury Learning Collaborative

I knew I would find Social Impact Bonds.

https://edpolicy.stanford.edu/

They are mapping out voting districts through paramilitary instructor, not educator, networks.

Daniel Losen,
He who does not know
Gracie Lee Boggs
or anything about the history
of Civil Rights

These people are talking about lumping racial disparities and psychological disabilities into quotas as their newly made up term of "re-segregation?

I just got chills of terror for these people, of whom command our educational institutions are a caustic affront, besmirching the profession of higher learning, by transmogrifying schools into institutions of predictive modeling  for civil asset forfeiture.

How can they even mention the "School-to-Prison" pipeline without mentioning Gracie Lee Boggs?

Seriously?

There they go talking that race crap as a reason to get more money for community development.

Jahana Hayes,
the only one with common sense

I can smell the carve out from their entire second round of another TARP hustle to get more money through their reparations propaganda.

No parents wakes up and says, "oh, we cannot let little Johnny go to that school because there are too many (fill in the blank)."

Please, someone, make the stupid stop.

These people speak as if they have never set afoot in Detroit, where this entire privatized, charter school model was set up and failed miserably.

Richard Carranza

Defiance?

These people are talking about defiance in children.

Did you know there is a disorder called Oppositional Defiance Disorder and they have psychotropics to prescribe for it.

David Trone
should not be around
any children's issues

They used foster kids for the lab rat researach.

Here is an example of the growing foster care and homeless population of kids they want to service, as opposed to ending child poverty, but I digress.

You snatch a kid from his fmaily for being poor.

You put the kid in a foster care placement, that the Secretary of Education just so happens to have a familiar financial interest in the child placing agency privatized contracts.

The kid wants to go home.

You dope the kid up because the kid opposes foster care or being homeless.

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JUDICIARY: Opening Statement of Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler for the Forum on Enforcement of the Civil Rights Act in U.S. Schools

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Washington, D.C. – Today, on the anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) joined his colleagues in Democratic leadership to unveil a resolution to affirm support for disparate impact analysis as an enforcement tool of Title VI under the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The resolution also calls on the Trump administration to fully enforce federal civil rights law to advance equal opportunity in education. Ranking Member Nadler announced this resolution at a forum he co-hosted with Congressman Bobby Scott (VA-03), Ranking Member of the Committee on Education and the Workforce.

Below are Ranking Member Nadler’s remarks at the forum, as prepared for delivery:

“Good afternoon. I am pleased to join my friend, the Ranking Member of the Education and the Workforce Committee, Representative Bobby Scott of Virginia, as we delve into educational equity issues in the wake of No Child Left Behind.  Those of you who are Hill veterans will recall the many years that Representative Scott and I sat beside one another on the Judiciary Committee dais to debate and defend issues on the Constitution, civil rights and civil liberties. 

“Earlier today, we introduced a resolution to affirm Congress’s intent for the Trump Administration to fully enforce federal civil rights laws that advance equal opportunity in education. I hope this is the first of many efforts together in our roles as Ranking Members on the Education and the Workforce and Judiciary Committees.

“As we meet today, on the 64^th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision, we are reminded of both, historically, the progress in addressing racial inequality in our education system and, more contemporaneously, just how much work still needs to be done.  By one reckoning, the Brown decision was an epic victory in the fight for equality.  By another, it signaled a school-by-school effort to advance educational achievement for minority students, culminating with the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

“More than 50 years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, education issues still generate partisan controversy and have the power to divide communities.  Under the Trump administration, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has begun dismissing hundreds of civil rights complaints under a new protocol that allows investigators to disregard cases that are part of serial filings or that they consider burdensome to the office.  She has also rescinded Obama-era guidelines that have prodded colleges and universities to more aggressively investigate campus sexual assaults.  She has further threatened to rescind other important Obama-era guidelines that have proved critical to protecting students, like the 2014 School Discipline Guidance, that we will discuss later.

“We are joined today by the Government Accountability Office and other experts to highlight important research around resegregation and school discipline. In 2016, the GAO found that schools were resegregating at alarming rates and, just last month, the GAO found that students of color suffer harsher punishment in school than their peers.  In the face of mounting challenges faced by students of color as the Trump Administration attempts to roll back critical civil rights protections, Congress must remain vigilant to address these problems and to check the Trump Administration’s abuses. Our students deserve no less.”

BACKGROUND:

The original co-sponsors for the resolution include Ranking Member Bobby Scott (VA-03), Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (NY-10), House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (CA-12), House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (MD-05), Assistant Democratic Leader James Clyburn (SC-06), Chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus Judy Chu (CA-27), Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus Cedric Richmond (LA-02), Chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Michelle Lujan Grisham (NM-01), and additional Democratic Members of Congress.

On April 4, 2018, Ranking Members Scott and Nadler released a GAO report entitled, “Discipline Disparities for Black Students, Boys, and Students with Disabilities.” This report found that Black students, boys, and students with disabilities are disproportionately disciplined in K-12 public schools. This pattern of disproportionate discipline persists regardless of the type of disciplinary action, level of school poverty, or type of public school students attend. To read more about this report, click here.

On May 17, 2016, Committees on the Judiciary and Education and the Workforce Democrats unveiled a GAO report entitled, “K-12 EDUCATION: Better Use of Information Could Help Agencies Identify Disparities and Address Racial Discrimination.” This report confirmed that increasing segregation along the lines of race and poverty continue to be a driver for inequities in education. The report identified actions needed to reduce racial and socioeconomic segregation, and addressed disparities in K-12 public schools. To read more about this report, click here.

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A Letter To Kansas Foster Care Task Force About Its 'Kids For Cash' Schemes

Children & Families of Kansas
vs.
State of Kansas
Privatized Foster Care
Contractors

The following communication was sent to me from a Kansas family who is fighting to save their grandchild who was removed, put in foster care, and adopted out for no reason.

Well, there was alot of money involved.

It should be noted that, in Kansas, there are no constituency services for the residents from their elected officials nor are there any civil rights protections, based upon its constitution.

It should even be noted that voting rights are being legislatively stripped from the people by establishing corporations like KVC as trustees over individual's right to vote.  The legislation is found, below.

That means Kansas can do what it wants, well, until the DOJ steps in like they had to do in the action of Brown v. Board of Education.

Hopefully.

Yes, the Brown case came out of Kansas, but in this instance, in dealing with foster care, it is about civil rights, or rather democratic segregation because, everyone knows, there are no civil rights in child welfare, particularly with privatized contractors.

One of the main issues of public corruption within the State of Kansas is with its private contractor, KVC, where its employees are running for public office using funds of the foster care organization, bloated contracts are handed out like candy to political candidates, and judges get kickbacks.

Oh, and KVC directors are allowed to lobby the state as part of their jobs.

I want to thank everyone again for all the effort on the Foster Care Task Force. Change starts with people like yourself—people that care.

 Please take a few minutes and read this story of greed and arrogance from DCF and it private contractors Last July, I was at the Hilton Hotel where KVC was having Bill Self in for a fund raiser with a goal of raising $600,000 in cash since the table costs were $25,000 a table.

 I was approached by Chad Anderson, who is in the executive role of KVC and past President of KVC in Kansas. I was approached by Chad Anderson two times.

 One was to tell me to stay away from his donors.

 My response to Chad Anderson was how did he know that maybe some of his donors where also donors of a non for profit that as grandparents had put together.

 If you go to state of Kansas business entity search, you will find the name KVC Kansas register under Ben Frie.

 We are in the final process of getting IRS 501c3 approval with our board of directors. KVC is aware of this and they continue to use the name in marketing under KVC Kansas ins which we have asked them to stop since KVC Healthcare has never register this name with the State of Kansas.

 This leads into the second approach by Chad Anderson of KVC Healthcare. He approached my table and I made the joke if he was going to donate to a truly good cause since our cause will be to help parents/grandparents with family court issues so they can have private attorneys vs a court appointed attorney that spend 2 minutes with parents before court.

 Chad Anderson got upset and made a comment to me “that he was going to take me down”. I filed a court order for TRO and was granted it based on Chad making this comment in front of two witness. Bottom line the Judge in Johnson felt that Chad Anderson actions crossed the line since he made those comments and got into my body space since he was truly upset.

 Couple weeks back which I will send you a copy of the court order and the letter from Chad Anderson outside attorney (KVC Healthcare hired a outside firm and paid for Chads Anderson deference despite my court actions was against him personally not KVc Healthcare).

 So bottom line, fund raisers are done and money from the state given so KVC Healthcare can hire a outside attorney firm. I tell you this story since last month I was called a “political activist” by the attorney for Chad Anderson.

I do not believe I am a “political activist” but someone that sees wrong. Sees wrong on what DCF, the private contractors and the court systems and want to help protect the children of Kansas. So please take five minutes and please read my concerns of the task force:

 1-Is the Task Force aware that Gilmore signed a new contact for another 2 years starting next July so is this task force truly about fixing the system. The last couple of renewals have been one year so why the need of two years renewal for the private contractors?

 2-As most people are aware, I have attended all of the task force meetings and all but one working group so not sure if anyone besides maybe Linda Gallanger has spend more time learning the system.
I have become a certified parent ally so I can go to court to help protect parents or grandparents since most of them do not know the laws.

 On top of this, I have read the training manuals that was issue to DCF workings last summer. I have spend time understanding the financial statements of KVC.

 Saying this, my concern is allowing the private contractors attend the working groups and sit at the working group tables.

 So we are allowing one of the main concerns to sit at the working group tables and I have personally seen the influence of the private contractors.

 Next month, KVC is doing a GALL at Union Station where the event to rent the Union Station was over $200,000. Yes that is a great investment since if you google KVC 2017 Gala. You will see their goal is to raise over a MILLION Dollars

 3-The first two concerns coming from the task force was:

•  A-Children sleeping in KVC or St Francis offices. Well again not sure if anyone has visited the ten million dollar recently built new building in Olathe. It includes a 6,000 square foot ball room which I guess are children are not good enough to sleep in that beautiful ballroom. 
• B-That we have missing children. I can tell you not once did DCF or our GAL ever see us with our grandchildren, KVC case worker stoped by twice on surprise visits. We passed these inspections with no problem. So my question, what does DCF do? Gilmore hires private contractors so she does not have to do her job. That simple. 

 4-Besides Linda Gallagher who was at our court hearing truly understand the laws in place in Kansas. Does this task force understand that if I was to kill someone in Kansas that I could have appeals. In Kansas, a family court judge decides and there is not appeals. Decisions need to be moved to a jury system vs a judge

 Then reason way is simple and I will use Ju Judge Cahill who is on the task force as a example. He starts the two court cases I have attended by saying how great KVC or DCF does in reports.

 The parent ally on my sons cases has given me a affidavit that this judge had already made up his mind before my sons court hearing.

My attorney emails to me after being witness to Cahill was simple. That when my son missed court based on a car wreck and admitting to the hospital and the Cahill ruled against my son comments were simple. Let him take legal action against me if he does not like my decision.

Why do I point this out. Well Cahill is feature in the KVC annual report. He was honor as a “hero” at KVC annual meeting.

 He attends the events of KVC. The question to the judges like Cahill or Sloan are simply. How many times have you overruled KVC or DCF?

 I know of one case. DCF and KVC ruled against a lesbian couple that wanted to adopt. They were detreminded not the right fit by KVC and DCF based on their sexual preference. Judge Sloan overruled KVC and DCF on that case. Again ask this simple question. How many times does a judge rule against DCF or its private contractors

 5-Do you know have many lawsuits have been filed AGAINAST DCF or its private contractors?

 I know of three lawsuits that have been settle by KVC and St Francis where a confidentiality agreement have been signed that was for deaths and rapes of children under their care.

 I believe DCF and KVC/ St Francis should disclose every lawsuit in the last 10 years to the task force. They can take out the names or care numbers.

 I haver personally been asked to testify for two cases against KVC and St Francis I have talked to two attorneys that have settle million dollar lawsuits against DCF or its private contractors

 6-The make up of the working groups is not a fair balance since it is full or attorney or people running for office or friends of private contractors.

Show me one parent ally which is accepted by DCF as part of the recognized person of the court system.

 Do not take this the wrong way, how many task force members know what a State certified parent ally does in foster care?

 Show me one parent or grandparent that maybe understands the system needs more than some of the members of the task force?

 You have members of thew working groups that was selected that our agents for KVC. I have provided this information to Steve Alford and my concerns of these people.

 You have judges that are so tied into the private contractors that they have lost site of their jobs. 

Finally lets call it for what it is. Kids for Cash.

 KVC and St Francis are great marking companies at raising money but foster care is something that takes people that care more than about money.

 KVC letter talks about me having their employees on tape talking about the greed of the executives. There talk about me having judges talking how broken KVC and DCF are.

 KVC talks about me having the print outs of case workers from KVC admitting drug use or mental issues.

 Yes I have all of this but unless the task force allows open and honest communication then this task force is doomed.

 We have the highest paid state employee on the board of KVC. We have contractors given with a true RFP process and as a sole source.

 We still have a good old boy system with DCF and its private contractors.

I personally look forward to speaking to the entire task force in open forum and going into more detail of how the system can be fixed but wanted to continue to express my concerns until the system is fixed. 

Again I thank you for your time as we work to fix this broken foster care system in Kansas.

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Will Besty DeVos Be Impeached On Violating The Emolument Clause?

U.S. Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos has a substantial financial investments in privatized education, which is a clear violation of the Emolument Clause.

One cannot just use their public office and federal funding for personal inurement.

Neither is an elected nor appointed official able to enforce their personal beliefs upon a democratic society.

The last time I checked, the aforementioned actions were considered federal crimes.

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CONYERS & SCOTT Introduce Bill to Address Racial Inequities in Public Education

WASHINGTON – TODAY, Committee on Education and the Workforce Ranking Member Bobby Scott (VA-03) and Committee on the Judiciary Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (MI-13) introduced the Equity and Inclusion Enforcement Act (EIEA). This legislation would empower parents and communities to address – through robust enforcement – racial inequities, including inequities in access to educational resources, in public education.

Today marks the 63^rd anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision in the Brown v. Board of Education case, which struck down lawful school segregation and affirmed that education was a right that “must be made available to all on equal terms.” Last year on the anniversary of Brown, Ranking Members Scott and Conyers unveiled the findings of a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report which found that our nation’s schools are, in fact, re-segregating by race and class.

Dean of the U.S. House
of Representatives
John Conyers, Jr.

“Though the Nation can celebrate the progress made over the course of the last 63 years after the Brown v. Board decision, we should acknowledge the long path ahead of us in the battle toward equal education,” said Ranking Member Conyers. “Last year’s GAO report confirmed our fears -- that many of our schools are re-segregating at alarming rates. On this landmark occasion, I’m proud to join Rep. Scott in introducing the Equity and Inclusion Enforcement Act, legislation that will help us on our path to providing equal educational opportunities for all students.”

“On this anniversary of Brown, we are reminded that we have a long way to go to achieve educational equity for all students,” said Ranking Member Scott. “Last year’s GAO report confirmed that increasing segregation along the lines of race and poverty continue to be a driver for inequities in education. The Equity and Inclusion Enforcement Act provides parents and communities with the tools necessary to ensure all children have a chance to succeed, and moves us one step closer to fulfilling the promise of Brown.”

In 1964, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act, a decade after the Brown decision. Title VI of the Act mandates that federal dollars cannot subsidize or support programs or activities that discriminate on the basis of race, color, or national origin. The EIEA would:

• restore a private right of action to file disparate impact claims under Title VI;
• create Title VI monitors to ensure that every school has at least one employee to specifically carry out the responsibilities of the law; and
• create an Assistant Secretary in the Department of Education to coordinate and promote Title VI enforcement of equity and inclusion in education.

Earlier today, a companion bill - the Rebuild America’s Schools Act of 2017 - was introduced to support new investments in school infrastructure to help level the playing field for students in under-resourced communities. 

Organizations supporting the EIEA: NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund (LDF), Southeast Asia Resource Action Center (SEARAC), the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, the Advancement Project, NAACP, and Teach Plus.

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CONYERS, Scott Statement on New Civil Rights Data from Department of Education

WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) unveiled new data from the 2013-2014 school year showing gaps that remain in educational equity and opportunity for students. Education and the Workforce Committee Ranking Member Rep. Bobby Scott (VA-03) and Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Rep. John Conyers, Jr. (MI-13) released the following statement on the release of the new data by OCR:

Dean of the U.S. House
of Representatives
John Conyers, Jr.

“The report released today from the Department of Education is a disturbing reminder of what too many families already know, and what was confirmed in the report from the General Accountability Office (GAO) we unveiled last month.  Our nation’s increasingly diverse student population is too often hyper-segregated in K-12 public schools and, sadly, educational opportunity is not available to all students of color on equal terms. This new data, and GAO’s study, are a call to action.

“That is why we introduced H.R.5260, the Equity and Inclusion Enforcement Act. The bill would amend Title VI of the Civil Rights Act to allow individuals to bring suits against school districts that implement practices and policies that have disparate impact based on race, color or nationality. We must honor our obligation to fulfil the promise of Brown v. Board of Education and seize the opportunity presented by the Every Student Succeeds Act to take meaningful and deliberate action – supported by the Federal government – to level the playing field in public K-12 schools.”

REPORT:    2013-14 Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC)

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CONYERS: There Is No Excuse for School Segregation

A new report reveals that our public schools are still largely segregated by race and class

By John Conyers, Jr.

Dean of the U.S. House
of Representatives
John Conyers, Jr.

Rather than celebrating the anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision, which ruled that separate but equal treatment in education of blacks and whites was unconstitutional, we are left to ponder why school segregation survived well into the 21st century. This week, a federal judge ordered Cleveland, Miss., to desegregate its middle and high schools, which were running under an unconstitutional system. It has been reported that district officials have argued that desegregating the schools will cause white flight. Sadly, these claims are unsettlingly similar to those heard during the civil-rights era.

Like many in Congress, during educational policy debates, I was concerned that No Child Left Behind’s implementation failed to adequately address disparities in public schools and feared it might actually undermine educational equality. Two years ago, my colleagues Congressman Bobby Scott, former Congressman George Miller and I requested that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) investigate racial and socioeconomic isolation and integration in our secondary schools. The GAO report, released this week, revealed that our public schools are still largely segregated by race and class, and are resegregating at an alarming rate.

The percentage of schools in which 75% of students were both low-income and Hispanic or African American has increased from 9% of all K-12 public schools in 2001 to 16% of all such schools in 2014. Charter schools have seen similarly alarming trends, growing from 3% to 13% segregated by low-income as well as race and ethnicity. In absolute terms, the report shows that more than 20 million students of color now attend racially and socioeconomically isolated public schools, up from under 14 million students in 2001.

The GAO study also found that 61% of all high poverty schools are populated by at least 75% students of color. The report confirms that these high poverty, high minority schools don’t have as many resources as other non-high poverty, high minority schools. Additionally, it found that many students at these schools don’t have access to advanced coursework and are more likely to be suspended or expelled.

Though federal policy was intended to improve outcomes for at-risk students, serious structural barriers exist to achieving equal education for poor and minority students across the Nation. According to the U.S. Department of Education, African-American and Latino students are still less likely than their white or Asian peers to perform on grade level and twice as likely to drop out. Decades of research has shown that segregation negatively impacts student outcomes, with high school dropout rates significantly higher in poor, segregated schools.

Following the release of these findings, Congressman Bobby Scott and I, introduced H.R. 5260, the Equity and Inclusion Enforcement Act. This bill would overrule the 2001 Alexander v. Sandoval ruling, which stripped victims of discrimination of the right to bring disparate impact claims under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The legislation would amend Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964—which bars any entity that receives federal dollars from discriminating on the basis of race, color or national origin—by restoring the right to individual civil court actions in cases involving disparate impact. The bill would also provide federal support to school districts to proactively monitor and ensure compliance with Title VI.

President Barack Obama signed the Every Student Succeeds Act into law last December. This critical legislation reauthorizes the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 and replaces the No Child Left Behind Act, providing drastic improvements to the challenges the law presented. It is my hope that the implementation of this act will help provide our schools with the long overdue resources they need to improve the quality of education for all students.

This week has proven that a focused effort is needed at the federal, state and local level to uphold the true meaning of Brown. The U.S. Departments of Education and Justice need to use the full extent of their authority to investigate the resegration of local schools and ensure that all children receive access to equal education at all publicly funded schools including both traditional and charter.

We must stop these trends toward resegegation from continuing unabated. Educational apartheid should not be an issue in the 21st century.

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