{"id":941805,"date":"2021-10-30T13:44:38","date_gmt":"2021-10-30T17:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=941805"},"modified":"2021-10-30T13:44:41","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T17:44:41","slug":"mcauliffe-plan-could-lead-to-1970s-style-busing-claims-giving-parents-a-choice-leads-to-segregation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mcauliffe-plan-could-lead-to-1970s-style-busing-claims-giving-parents-a-choice-leads-to-segregation\/","title":{"rendered":"McAuliffe Plan Could Lead To 1970s-Style Busing, Claims Giving Parents A \u2018Choice\u2019 Leads To \u2018Segregation\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmcauliffe-plan-could-lead-to-1970s-style-busing-claims-giving-parents-a-choice-leads-to-segregation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=941805&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A review of Virginia gubernatorial hopeful Terry McAuliffe\u2019s education platform shows that he aims to take away what is perhaps the biggest choice parents currently have when it comes to their children\u2019s education: The ability to choose a school by buying a home in a neighborhood that is zoned for it.<\/p>\n<p>McAuliffe\u2019s education plan entails pushing school districts to re-draw school boundary zones to be \u201canti-racist\u201d \u2014 in other words, 1970s-style busing that could dramatically change families\u2019 everyday lives by moving their kids to a different school than the one they expected when they chose their home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere parents have greater opportunities to choose schools (where integration is not the goal), schools appear to become more segregated,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/thecommonwealthinstitute.org\/research\/modern-day-segregation-addressing-lasting-impacts\/2\/\">says<\/a> the activist paper cited by his plan.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/terrymcauliffe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/1.29.21-FINAL-Education-Plan-1.pdf\">plan<\/a> calls for \u201ccreating a school integration officer within the Virginia Department of Education, reviewing how diversity factors into school accreditation standards, incentivizing localities to implement integration strategies and working with developers to drastically improve access to affordable housing so that families can locate in areas with high-performing schools.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While details of McAuliffe\u2019s \u201cdesegregation\u201d plan are sparse on his website, the fuller picture is found in the paper that forms its sole footnote and that tracks with its broad claims: A report from the <a href=\"https:\/\/thecommonwealthinstitute.org\/research\/modern-day-segregation-addressing-lasting-impacts\/\">Commonwealth Institute<\/a>&nbsp;called \u201cAddressing the Lasting impacts of Racist Choices on Virginia\u2019s Education System.\u201d The report uses the word racist 24 times. It laments \u201cracist\u201d educational systems in Virginia despite McAuliffe having been governor from 2014 to 2018, and his lieutenant governor, Ralph Northam, having held the post since.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Busing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Commonwealth Institute plan <a href=\"https:\/\/thecommonwealthinstitute.org\/research\/modern-day-segregation-addressing-lasting-impacts\/5\/\">says<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>Typically, a student would be assigned to a school close in proximity and that the neighborhood they live in is \u201czoned\u201d for. However, having established the persisting legacy of housing and education segregation in the state, it becomes clear that this method results in segregated and often under-resourced schools. \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>One way to approach this issue is through intra-district zoning policies that maintain socioeconomic and racial equity as its guiding principle alongside specific diversity goals. School divisions would make the decision to redraw school zones, based on socioeconomic status and\/or the racial and economic makeup of their schools and\/or neighborhoods, to create better integrated schools. \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Another district-wide strategy is called managed choice. In an equity-focused choice system, all families would be required to submit a set of school preferences, and their student\u2019s assigned school would be based on a variety of determined goals<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A review of Virginia gubernatorial hopeful Terry McAuliffe\u2019s education platform shows that he aims to take away what is perhaps the biggest choice parents currently have when it comes to their children\u2019s education: The ability to choose a school by buying a home in a neighborhood that is zoned for it.McAuliffe\u2019s education plan entails pushing school districts to re-draw school boundary zones to be \u201canti-racist\u201d \u2014 in other words, 1970s-style busing that could dramatically change families\u2019 everyday lives by moving their kids to a different school than the one they expected when they chose their home.\u201cWhere parents have greater opportunities to choose schools (where integration is not the goal), schools appear to become more segregated,\u201d says the activist paper cited by his plan.The campaign plan calls for \u201ccreating a school integration officer within the Virginia Department of Education, reviewing how diversity factors into school accreditation standards, incentivizing localities to implement integration strategies and working with developers to drastically improve access to affordable housing so that families can locate in areas with high-performing schools.\u201dWhile details of McAuliffe\u2019s \u201cdesegregation\u201d plan are sparse on his website, the fuller picture is found in the paper that forms its sole footnote and that tracks with its broad claims: A report from the Commonwealth Institute\u00a0called \u201cAddressing the Lasting impacts of Racist Choices on Virginia\u2019s Education System.\u201d The report uses the word racist 24 times. It laments \u201cracist\u201d educational systems in Virginia despite McAuliffe having been governor from 2014 to 2018, and his lieutenant governor, Ralph Northam, having held the post since.BusingThe Commonwealth Institute plan says:Typically, a student would be assigned to a school close in proximity and that the neighborhood they live in is \u201czoned\u201d for. However, having established the persisting legacy of housing and education segregation in the state, it becomes clear that this method results in segregated and often under-resourced schools. \u2026One way to approach this issue is through intra-district zoning policies that maintain socioeconomic and racial equity as its guiding principle alongside specific diversity goals. School divisions would make the decision to redraw school zones, based on socioeconomic status and\/or the racial and economic makeup of their schools and\/or neighborhoods, to create better integrated schools. \u2026Another district-wide strategy is called managed choice. In an equity-focused choice system, all families would be required to submit a set of school preferences, and their student\u2019s assigned school would be based on a variety of determined goals that can include diversity and proximity, among others.AccreditationTying accreditation to racial composition of schools suggests, in its most drastic form, that a school could lose its accreditation unless it has a certain racial makeup, which would force districts to implement busing. In a less drastic form, where a low diversity score would not be enough to shut a school down, but a high diversity score would effectively give it bonus points, the effect would be lower standards in high-minority schools. A positive rating in the \u201cdiversity\u201d category would offset negative marks in academic categories that might otherwise have caused the school to fail, masking educators\u2019 failure to help minorities do well.The report says that \u201cSchool accreditation systems often take into account measures such as test scores and chronic absenteeism to determine the quality of a school,\u201d but that \u201cSince diversity is necessary for a quality education and adequate workforce preparation, it should be part of the accreditation process.\u201d\u00a0Flooding neighborhoods around good schools with new low-income housingMcAuliffe\u2019s plan also calls for deliberately building low-income housing around top-rated schools. It says McAuliffe would work \u201cwith developers to drastically improve access to affordable housing so that families can locate in areas with high-performing schools.\u201dThe Commonwealth Institute paper says this involves \u201cinclusive zoning,\u201d which has been called \u201cabolishing the suburbs\u201d because it means permitting apartments to be built anywhere within all existing single-family-home neighborhoods, as well as getting rid of the minimum lot sizes that give suburban neighborhoods quiet, nature-filled feels.A similar policy was signed into law in California days after Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, won his recall election, resulting in no town being able to require any lawn to be larger than four feet, and houses on large lots able to be replaced with multiple smaller houses.Major disruption to neighborhoods, but little evidence of academic benefitsFew issues in politics affect parents more than school zoning. Fairfax County, the state\u2019s largest county, spent $100,000 on a boundary consultant in 2019, but has not followed through on plans after tremendous opposition from parents.When Fairfax County was asked about the reason for attempting to spread minorities out equally at the time, it said that its research showed that schools that were not heavily minority had higher test scores. But asked whether minorities did better if they were moved to schools where they were surrounded by more whites \u2014 as opposed to those high average test scores simply reflecting a larger number of whites \u2014 it provided no supporting data.When Montgomery County, Maryland pushed for a busing initiative, its research found instead that the performance of poor black children was almost exactly the same whether they went to a school that was 90% poor or 10% poor. An official survey found that only 18% of respondents thought \u201cbalance diversity among nearby schools\u201d was important, while 79% thought it was \u201cextremely important\u201d to minimize boundary changes.The policies essentially view schools as being inferior if they do not have enough whites. This stands in opposition to proponents of \u201ccultural responsive teaching,\u201d which argues that minorities need to be taught in a way specific to their culture, which actually argues for segregated classrooms.So, if policies with de facto racial quotas for schools are unpopular among whites and minorities, and does not lead to improved academic outcomes for minority children, why are politicians who are aligned with the educational establishment so intent on pushing them?One explanation is that it makes statistics look better on paper even if it does not help students in reality. By spreading the minorities out, there will be fewer \u201cfailing schools\u201d \u2014 even if the number of individual students who are failing remains unchanged. In short, the problem will be less obvious, and educators will be under less pressure to actually help poor minorities learn.McAuliffe, whose campaign has received nearly $1 million from teachers unions, prioritized such statistical measures during his previous term in office. Faced with low pass-rates on the state exam, his administration made the exam easier, leading to what the federal Department of Education says are the lowest state standards in the nation.His education plan notes that he \u201celiminat[ed] five Standards of Learning tests\u201d \u2014 in other words, achieving statistical \u201cequity\u201d by simply declining to measure whether kids were learning at all. While that may have made state statistics look better, satisfying the school administrator and teachers union lobbies that push for less testing, it did not result in smarter students.From 2014 to 2021, Virginia\u2019s national ranking in terms of Advanced Placement (AP) scores dropped from third place to tenth place.Related: McAuliffe Worked For Law Firm That Argues On Behalf Of School Administrators, Including Fighting Parents And Alleged Sexual Assault VictimsThe Daily Wire is building up its investigative reporting team to bring you more stories like this one and hold those in power to account.\u00a0 Help us expose the stories the legacy media refuses to report on by becoming a Daily Wire member today:\u00a0dailywire.com\/subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-941805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=941805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}