Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal is furious that the Department of Justice wants control of Louisiana’s private school voucher program, and he’s not afraid to let them know it.
Why would the DOJ be critical of a program that helps poor and minority students get a better education? The office argues that by giving minority students scholarships to attend private schools, the state is messing up the racial makeup of public schools and impeding the desegregation process.
Now, in addition to calling for a 45-day review period of the program, the DOJ wants information on the racial makeup of the state’s private schools and wants the option to veto each individual scholarship award. Jindal didn’t hold anything back in his response to the move:
“President Obama’s Department of Justice has admitted it cannot prove that Louisiana school choice is violating desegregation efforts, yet it continues to seek the ability to tell a parent their child cannot escape a failing school because their child is not the ‘right’ race.”
“The Department of Justice proposal reeks of federal government intrusion and proves the people in Washington running our federal government are more interested in skin color than they are in education.”
Jindal also criticized the federal government’s attempt to “red-tape and regulate the Louisiana Scholarship Program to death,” stating that the Obama administration “knows no bounds.”
I tip my hat to Jindal for standing up for a program that has given thousands of kids the opportunity for a better education and I hope that, upon further investigation, the DOJ realizes this as well.
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