(Experiment: Take state tax-payers’ money and give it to failing private schools. Then fill those schools with poor Black children.
Procedure: Observe, but do not intervene. Let nature run its course.)
By Michel Holzman (sharing Eric Cooper’s column)
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In Louisiana, 30 percent of white, non-Hispanic students whose family incomes are low enough to qualify them for the National Lunch Program read at or above grade level on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) grade 4 reading test. Half that percentage, 15 percent, of eligible Black children read at that same level. This could reasonably be interpreted to mean that the state fails to provide an adequate education for more than two-thirds of lower income white students and 85 percent of lower income Black students.