Sharpton Joins School Boycott, Plans Lawsuit

The Rev. Al Sharpton has joined State Sen. Meeks boycott of Chicago Public Schools over the funding inequities in the public government school system. See the video here and here.

I have been saying a lawsuit has been in order for several years now because of the funding discrepancies. The funding discrepancies are caused and perpetuated by the education bureaucracy, teachers unions, legislators, congressmen and the blind support of the NAACP, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, State Sen Meeks, and others. They are under the false impression that money is the answer, when it has been proven that money is not the answer.

The answer to this problem is education opportunities which will only come with competition. Here are the steps that can be taken to provide equal access to a good education for all children including those in the inner city, poor and minorities.

• Designate an equal amount of money for each school-aged child
• The parents then choose which school their child will attend
  • Public – in or out of current district boundary
  • Private
  • Charter
• Remove all current mandates
• Require all financial data to be on the internet for all public/charter schools
• Require yearly testing of all students – all schools (These tests should be created by an independent authority and not the current State or Education Bureaucracy)
• Require raw and aggregate testing results to be on the internet in a timely manner, i.e. in time for school selection for the upcoming school year – all schools
• Abolish NCLB, it will no longer be needed
• Abolish the Dept. of Education, it also will no longer be needed

If Charles Rangel, State Sen. Meeks and others want to truly want to help educate poor African Americans along with other inner city youth, then they need to Fund The Child and stop funding the bureaucracy.