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"Choice is not a solution and has very little to do with education," Peterkin said, pointing to problems of unequal funding, transportation and racial segregation associated with such plans.
Much of the first year was spent building the foundational aspects of the program. This included installing new computers in the schools, negotiating new teacher contracts and running workshops for teachers. But complaints of an "unequal partnership" still lingered.
The notion of equal opportunity is central to the American ideal. For that goal to have any meaning, it must be rooted in an education system that gives every child a chance to succeed. But for decades, a gulf has been widening between the quality of public schooling for children...
Quayle is far from the first politician to mine this populist bedrock of antilawyer sentiment. Jimmy Carter attacked the legal profession for providing unequal standards of justice for the rich and the poor. Quayle's emphasis was not justice but competitiveness. By framing the debate in these terms, he raised...
The wrongs seem obvious. The highly visible act of excluding people from prominent community institutions based on skin color serves as a powerful and disturbing symbol that racism is considered tolerable in the nation's top social echelons -- just as excluding women and Jews sends a message that sexism and...