New York Times [Off-Planet] Editorial Agreeing with Secretary of Education Arne Duncan: Civil Rights at School - The Department of Education Offers States Guidance on Equality (Would make perfect sense if all races had equal abilities, which science started disproving about a century ago, which confirmed thousands of years of experiences, beliefs and intuitive wisdom.)

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Civil Rights at School - The Department of Education Offers States Guidance on Equality

Earlier this month, Arne Duncan, the secretary of education, sent what he described as “guidance” to states and school districts reminding them of their obligation to provide schoolchildren with equal resources regardless of race. The guidance, in the form of a “Dear Colleague” letter, invoked the Supreme Court’s landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision in warning that school districts that shunted minority kids to inferior schools could be held accountable under federal civil rights law.

He had numbers to back up the threat. The letter noted, for example, that schools serving the most students of color were less likely to have high-level courses and that nearly one in five black high school students attend high schools that do not offer Advanced Placement courses ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/29/opinion/secretary-arne-duncan-offers-states-guidance-on-equality.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&_r=0