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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Has anyone posted on this yet?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/us/politics/education-dept-race-based-programs.html

"The Education Department warned schools in a letter on Friday that they risked losing federal funding if they continued to take race into account when making scholarship or hiring decisions, or so much as nodded to race in “all other aspects of student, academic and campus life.”

I don't even know where to begin...I feel like I'm in that Harry Potter movie where the Ministry of Magic keeps issuing inane decrees[/quote]

Give me one example of schools using race as a factor when hiring someone or extending a scholarship to someone. Crickets.... schools are one place where racism isn't a factor. School age children haven't yet learned how to be racist at an early age. Perhaps us adults could learn something from our young children.[/quote]

Montgomery county uses 4 criteria when analyzing school zone boundaries. The primary one is diversity.[/quote]

Bologna! [/quote]

“ Our Board Policy, FAA, Educational Facilities Planning, identifies four main factors for consideration when establishing and making changes to school boundaries. These include:

Demographic characteristics of student population
Geography
Stability of school assignments over time
Facility utilization”

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/facilities/boundary-study/

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Drawing up school boundaries doesn't include or exclude certain children from going to public school based on race. It simply determines WHERE they go to school. No child is being denied public school due to the color of their skin and no one is getting hired or fired because of their skin color and those things are relevant to this topic. [/quote]

It violates the DoEd letter because it makes decisions based on race and ethnicity. [/quote]

Every school district with two or three schools in a category (elementary, middle, high) draws districts to accomplish two things:

1. The privileged upper middle class white kids will all go to the same school or else their politically connected parents would raise all hell, but the lines will be drawn to include just enough low-income kids to ensure that their school qualifies for Title I federal funds.

2. Because most of the parents with political influence are clustered in one school, the other schools full of low-and moderate income kids will get fewer resources from the district and will have a harder time recruiting and retaining teachers. [/quote]

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