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DeVos is Intent on Reviving State-Sponsored Discrimination Diane Ravitch & Linda Lyons

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"The inevitable result of school choice will not be better education, but segregation by race, class, ethnicity, and socioeconomic. Yet DeVos continues to evade any federal responsibility for promoting desegregation & evades any federal responsibility for discouraging discrimination." As far as she DeVos  concerned, the U.S. Department of Education has no responsibility to protect students from discrimination based on race, ethnicity, religion, sexual preference, gender identity. The hell with Brown vs. Board of Education, she will not step in to ensure states do the right thing for their students.This is essentially state-sponsored discrimination. Yes, discrimination has always occurred via self-funded choice. The wealthy have always been able to keep their children away from the rest of us but, it was on their own dime."

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