The Demise of Public Education locally related: U.S. Dept. of Education & Other Matters

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Even in the redistricting of Louisiana Congressional districts the truth comes out. 

You all can forget it. "A new generation is here"

The mainstream defunctory methods to rid the nation, of others' former ideas to do with continued 19th century practices is undone.  

Locally, statewide & nationally a move is on to destroy public education.  In Louisiana, the governor and his super-majority legislature, is using 'public money' to pay for tuitions in 'private schools'.  

Governor Jeff Landry has declared this state is a maga state.  

The giant social-media company META, is announced it's $10 billion dollar facility, to be built in Northeast Louisiana's Holly Ridge in Richland Parish.  

Director, Data Center Infrastructure at Meta | former Apple & Cisco 

Mr. Janda spoke of initiatives yesterday, that will impact, students; the disadvantaged & non-profits, for the betterment.

As the national government evolves for January next year; the push is on to get rid of the U.S. Department of Education. The GOP's supermajority in the federal government is hellbent on 'defunding' HHS. The MAGA-fueled government seeks to get rid of the National Institute of Health, the main agency that facilitated pandemic vaccine research. 

The person selected for Medicare/Medicaid/CMS leadership, Mehmet Oz, is something out of a nightmare of deregulations. This suspected MAGA-type initiatives is call for concern.  

In the mean while, state and local initiatives are affecting individuals and families in different ways. In other words, the ultra-neoconservative actions are "trickling down" incessantly. For instance the prominent, Monroe City School System's Neville High School has filed papers to become a Charter School. Why? 

What ignored need will Neville Charter school address?

November 14, 2024 Free PressRoosevelt Wright

The dedication of parents and community members to improving educational outcomes at Neville High School is commendable. The Neville Charter Association’s stated goal of moving from “good to better” reflects an admirable commitment to excellence that has long been part of Neville’s tradition. However, the proposal to convert Neville to charter status raises serious questions that deserve careful scrutiny.

The most glaring issue is the fundamental question of necessity. If the Monroe City School Board has not rejected any academic program changes requested by Neville High School, what additional benefits would charter status provide that couldn’t be achieved within the current system?

The NCA’s application, while robust in its aspirations, is notably thin on specific academic interventions that aren’t already available to the school.

Of particular concern is the application’s failure to address one of Neville’s most pressing challenges: the growing achievement gap affecting its minority student population. Recent data shows alarming underperformance in core subject areas among minority students. The charter proposal offers no concrete strategies to tackle these disparities beyond what the school could implement without being a charter.

Everything the NCA wants to do academically as a charter, can be done now, except dealing with the growing presence of underperforming minority students. Neville, once an all white school is now mostly minorities, 54% of whom are African-Americans.

Under charter status, students from predominantly minority areas like Parkview and Robinson Place would have the option to attend Neville but wouldn’t be zoned or required to do so. This arrangement has rightfully raised red flags among minority community leaders who question whether the charter conversion might become a vehicle for demographic cheerypicking to weed out undesirables and send them to Carroll or Wossman.

Any principal would love to have a school without students who are frequently absent, disruptive, and score low on ACT and state assessments. That can only be achieved in private or a specialized “college-bound” charter school that has the freedom to cherry pick students.

It’s a suspicion. The NCA has not made any indication that it has anything but honorable intentions, but the suspicion is a reality in the Black community.

The NCA’s board must address these concerns head-on. Their vision of moving from good to better is laudable, but it must be achievable for all students, not by eliminating rather than helping its underperforming students.

Before supporting such a significant change in governance, we must ask: What specific academic programs would charter status enable that the current system prevents? How will the NCA ensure that achievement gaps between the races are closed rather than widened? How will the underperforming racial minorities in the school be helped to become “college bound” as a result of the charter status.

The desire to improve is right, but the means matter. 

If Neville’s leadership has ideas for academic improvement, they should present them to the school board. If those ideas are rejected, then charter conversion might be worth discussing. But until that happens, the rush to charter status seems like a solution in search of a problem – one that could create new challenges while failing to address existing ones.

The reality of all this is, The young people who are in school today; from college to grade school are getting along fine, and with a different mindset. When it is said, 'maga'; the return to what, is 1960 evidently is what is desired? 

Again, students in grade school are accepting to each others' 'diverse' backgrounds, cultures & lifestyles; while the generations of those children's grandparents & great-grandparents are the who, that really want to put 'the others' back in their place, specifically more than any, the blacks; the African-Americans and of course those Negroes. 

The others of the "others", the proxies of the maga-folk are hellbent on deporting enmasse; those who pick your avocadoes, work your flower-beds, harvest your lettuce, tomatoes, cabbage or other crops. As the U. S. House recesses,10 minutes ago December 5th: -the congressman from Texas this evening is saying, "otherwise we will cease to exist". I heard theses same words, from Crosstar, in 2007 in Jena.  

The thought of being right. 

Exhibited in their rhetoric, convincingly they state their case. 

About the deficit. The economy. 

Their children and grandchildren. 

Ever so often they refer to #wokeness, #DEI and #CRT.

As in Louisiana, all of their deviousness is overshadowed because of the moneyed economic development, as in Meta Expands in Louisiana's Richland Parish, in Northeast La., near Holly Ridge. 

As with the president-elect, his death-threats, revenge against 'enemies', migrant deportations, tariffs against neighboring countries, will break the economy.   Revelation 6:6

The City of Dr.King's Last Stand (the Culture)

The Police Culture

Neither of those five brothers, realize the depth of their devastating travesty of tragedy, which is the evolution of the self-destructive malaise pervading Black culture and life, especially so of late vis-a-vis the rapper and the basketball player. 

The late Malcolm Shabazz, the grandson of Malcolm X, had it correct: first the character assassination, then the physical assassination. Prominent Blacks, some star-studded, "felt so-free that they could join in maligning another brother, for the plantation's masters". 

It is no surprise, with all the black-on-black death, that five fully indoctrinated Black police Men would beat another Black Man to death "under-the-color-of-law". 

Who do you think had the whip in hand for massa, on the plantation. Or, who tossed the dead black bodies in the ocean, in the transatlantic voyage, or who helped trap the Africans on the Continent? We are doing the biddings of those whose indoctrination is in our bloodline. Fully assimilated.

Of All Places Memphis. Why Memphis? The last place the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 'stood his ground', which actually was Our ground. There, for the garbage workers, the poor, 'the po', the pawns, the Negroes then; of which Mrs. Coretta Scott King four days after Dr. King's assassination, led a March in the very Memphis.

The problem is we have lost our way in a society, whose design is self-effacing, implosive and all consuming. Conversation has already begun on a 'George Floyd Act' type congressional legislation. A pipe dream, with current legislative hierachy. 

Consider the situation in Louisiana, where white Louisiana troopers, similarly beat a black man to death in 2019. 

Troopers have only recently been indicted on man-slaughter charges and obstruction.  

In another incident a now former municipal police officer was convicted after video footage showed him kicking a suspect in the head. It is policing culture that is the problem.

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SCOTUS on a ROLL: Rights being Pulled en masseIndians, Blacks, Mexicans

The Big One is Louisiana Ardoin v. Robinson

The United States Supreme Court, 'the ultra-neo conservative cabal'; is operating as a conduit to foment societal upheaval at the behest of a RICO violating former president. SCOTUS just quietly slashed your Sixth Amendment rights .  

The Supreme Court quietly issued a 6-3 ruling recently on Shinn v. Martinez Ramirez, siding against two Arizonans on death row who sought to challenge their convictions in federal court after receiving shoddy legal support. The majority’s rationale, which was based on a 1996 federal law, was that state sovereignty and legal expediency must be protected at all costs.

Unfortunately, those costs are clear. The Court’s ruling slashed Americans’ constitutional right to effective counsel by eviscerating the life-saving accountability mechanism that allows people to appeal unjust rulings. The Hill  

Justice Clarence Thomas’s 6-3 majority opinion in Shinn v. Martinez Ramirez cuts the procedural-default exception off at its knees. Now, there will be no remedy for those whose post-conviction attorney failed to raise a valid, available claim. The majority opinion begins by paying lip service to stare decisis, as the court affirms that the principle of “cause and prejudice” as a method to overcome procedural default remains the law of the land. However, it then held that because the failure to develop the facts underlying the procedurally defaulted claim (e.g., ineffective assistance of trial counsel) in state court is considered the fault of the defendant; there is no right to have an evidentiary hearing in federal court to develop the underlying facts supporting the defaulted claim. Jurist

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Not only that, Oklahoma Indians , are under the 'states-rights' Civil War era move.

The case stems from the Supreme Court’s 2020 decision McGirt v. Oklahoma, which held that a large part of eastern central Oklahoma is an American Indian reservation. The McGirt case has been extended by courts to cover at least four other tribal nations.

The McGirt decision meant that tribal members who committed crimes on the Muscogee (Creek) Nation land couldn’t be prosecuted by the state of Oklahoma.

Major crimes could be prosecuted by the federal government, however, under the Major Crimes Act. And the federal government could prosecute the type of crimes that apply to federal enclaves when committed by and against non-Indians under the General Crimes Act. Tribal justice systems would have to prosecute other crimes. 

The Supreme Court said Oklahoma’s jurisdiction to prosecute was not preempted by federal law or principles of tribal self-government.

“To be clear,” Kavanaugh wrote, “the court today holds that Indian country within a state’s territory is part of a state, not separate from a state. Therefore, a state has jurisdiction to prosecute crimes committed in Indian country unless state jurisdiction is preempted.” ABA Journal

In this case, there is no preemption, Kavanaugh said.

But in voting's congressional redistricting in of all places, Louisiana, the axe fell exceeding heavy. 

In Ardoin vs. Robinson, the GOP lead Louisiana Legislature conspired against the rights of Black people, to subvert equal representation and in effect equal justice under the law. The state Senate Governmental Affairs Committee chaired by Senator Sharon Hewitt, along with the Senate President and the House Speaker boondoggled legislative process into skullduggery. In the video, you hear the groundwork for the eventual SCOTUS opinion. 

This redistricting battle, now under an Alito court order is of greater import than Roe v. Wade, which is blinding the minds of the citizenry. If the citizens right to vote is abridged by GOP trickery, which is what the current 'abeyance' order does, securing the same 5th Congressional District Representation, in 2022's Louisiana election.  In the meanwhile, state Senate Governmental Affairs, headed by Senator Sharon Hewitt, is seeking to change voting machines in order that tabulations can be tracked by paper, a purely Trumpian-era 2020 vote recount tactical maneuver to challenge a presidential election. 

It would be best You Leaders get busy & protect Ida,Fannie&Coretta's,and Malcolm,Martin&Medgar's Work!  (70's Rules - "Fight-for-Us" like Bennie Thompson)

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