Playing the Race Card
Holder's New School Discipline Guidelines: Stop Targeting
Minorities
by Breitbart News 8 Jan 2014, 8:12
AM PDT
(AP) Gov't: End overly zealous
discipline in schools
By KIMBERLY HEFLING
AP Education Writer
WASHINGTON
The Obama administration is urging
schools to abandon overly zealous discipline policies that civil rights
advocates have long said lead to a school-to-prison pipeline that discriminates
against minority students.
The wide-ranging series of
guidelines issued Wednesday in essence tells schools that they must adhere to
the principle of fairness and equity in student discipline or face strong
action if they don't. The American Civil
Liberties Union called the recommendations "ground-breaking."
"A routine school
disciplinary infraction should land a student in the principal's office, not in
a police precinct," Attorney
General Eric Holder said.
Holder said the problem often
stems from well intentioned "zero-tolerance" policies that too often
inject the criminal justice system into the resolution of problems. Zero
tolerance policies, a tool that became popular in the 1990s, often spell out
uniform and swift punishment for offenses such as truancy, smoking or carrying
a weapon. Violators can lose classroom time or become saddled with a criminal
record.
Police have become a more common
presence in American schools since the shootings at Columbine High School
in 1999.
In American schools, black
students without disabilities were more than three times as likely as whites to
be expelled or suspended, according to government civil rights data collection
from 2011-2012. Although black students made up 15 percent of students in the
data collection, they made up more than a third of students suspended once, 44
percent of those suspended more than once and more than a third of students
expelled.
More than half of students
involved in school-related arrests or referred to law enforcement were Hispanic
or black, according to the data.
The recommendations encourage
schools to ensure that all school personnel are trained in classroom
management, conflict resolution and approaches to de-escalate classroom
disruptions.
Among the other recommendations:
Ensure that school personnel understand
that they are responsible for administering routine student discipline instead
of security or police officers.
Draw clear distinctions about the
responsibilities of school security personnel.
Provide opportunities for school
security officers to develop relationships with students and parents.
The government advises schools to
establish procedures on how to distinguish between disciplinary infractions
appropriately handled by school officials compared with major threats to school
safety. And, it encourages schools to collect and monitor data that security or
police officers take to ensure nondiscrimination.
The recommendations are
nonbinding.
Already, in March of last year,
the Justice Department spearheaded a settlement with the Meridian, Miss.,
school district to end discriminatory disciplinary practices. The black
students in the district were facing harsher punishment than whites for similar
misbehavior.
Education Secretary Arne Duncan
has acknowledged the challenge is finding the balancing act to keep school safe
and orderly. But, he said that, "we need to keep students in class where
they can learn."
Research suggests the racial
disparities in how students are disciplined are not explained by more frequent
or more serious misbehavior by students of color, according to a letter sent to
schools with the recommendations by the departments.
"For example, in our
investigations, we have found cases where African-American students were
disciplined more harshly and more frequently because of their race than
similarly situated white students," the letter said. "In short,
racial discrimination in school discipline is a real problem."
Eric Holder
Eric H. Holder Jr.
is the attorney general at the U.S.
Department of Justice for the Barack
Obama administration, was a board member for the American Constitution Society, and an intern for the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund.
Note: Dawn E. Johnsen
is a director at the American
Constitution Society, was the director nominee, acting assistant attorney
general at the Office of Legal Counsel
for the Barack Obama administration,
and counsel for the American Civil
Liberties Union (ACLU).
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the American Constitution Society, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and the Center for American Progress.
Morton H. Halperin
is a senior adviser for the Open Society
Foundations, was a director, Washington
office for the American Civil Liberties
Union (ACLU), and a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.
Aryeh
Neier was the president for the Open
Society Foundations, an executive director for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), is a director at the Center for American Progress, and the vice
chairman for the Foundation to Promote
Open Society.
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, and was a supporter for the Center for American Progress.
Melody
C. Barnes was the EVP for the Center
for American Progress, a domestic policy council, director for the Barack Obama administration, a principal
for the Raben Group, and is Barack Obama’s golf partner.
Raben
Group was the lobby firm for the American
Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Morehouse
School of Medicine, and is the lobby firm for the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund.
Eric H. Holder Jr.
is a trustee at the Morehouse School of
Medicine, the attorney general at the U.S.
Department of Justice for the Barack
Obama administration, was an intern for the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, and the a board member
for the American Constitution Society.
Louis W. Sullivan
was the president for Morehouse School
of Medicine, and is an Oak Bluffs
(MA) homeowner.
Vernon E. Jordan Jr. is an Oak Bluffs (MA) homeowner, a senior
director at the NAACP Legal Defense
& Educational Fund, Valerie B. Jarrett’s great uncle, a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg
(think tank) and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Valerie B. Jarrett
is Vernon E. Jordan Jr’s great niece, the senior
adviser for the Barack Obama
administration, and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Rahm
I. Emanuel is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, the Chicago (IL) mayor,
Ari Emanuel’s brother, and was the
White House chief of staff for the Barack
Obama administration.
Ari
Emanuel is Rahm I.
Emanuel’s brother, Michael Moore’s
agent, and the co-CEO & director for William
Morris Endeavor Entertainment.
Michael
Moore’s agent is Ari Emanuel, a William Morris Endeavor Entertainment
client, and the producer, writer for Bowling
for Columbine.
Tonya Lewis Lee
is a director at the NAACP Legal Defense
& Educational Fund, and married to Spike
Lee.
Spike
Lee is married to Tonya Lewis Lee,
a trustee at Morehouse College, and an Oak Bluffs (MA) homeowner.
Spike Lee pays up for
wrong-address tweet in Trayvon Martin case
March 30, 2012
Charles
J. Ogletree Jr. is an Oak Bluffs (MA) homeowner, a director at the NAACP
Legal Defense & Educational Fund, a Harvard Law
School professor, and
Barack Obama’s college mentor.
Henry
Louis Gates Jr. is an Oak Bluffs (MA) homeowner, a director at the NAACP
Legal Defense & Educational Fund, and a Harvard University
professor.
Harvard Professor Jailed;
Officer Is Accused of Bias
By ABBY GOODNOUGH
Published: July 20, 2009
Professor Gates, who has taught
at Harvard for nearly two decades, arrived home on Thursday from a trip to China
to find his front door jammed, said Charles J. Ogletree, a law professor at
Harvard who is representing him.
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Shouldn't everyone know what the Oak Bluffs (MA)
homeowners are up to?
Ronald R.
Davenport Sr. is an Oak Bluffs (MA) homeowner,
and was a trustee at the Committee for
Economic Development.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Committee for Economic Development.
George
Soros is the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society,
Donna
S. Morea was a trustee at the Committee
for Economic Development, and the EVP for the CGI Group Inc.
CGI Group Inc.
was the Obamacare contractor that
developed Healthcare.gov web site.
Obamacare
is Barack Obama’s signature policy
initiative.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Michelle
Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Newton
N. Minow is a senior counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP, and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
R.
Eden Martin is counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP, and the president of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Commercial Club of Chicago,
Members Directory A-Z (Past Research)
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
James S.
Crown is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and a trustee
at the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Lester Crown
is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and was a lifetime
trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Stephen L. Carter
is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and an Oak Bluffs (MA) homeowner.
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