A lawsuit has been filed against the State Bar of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/wisconsin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wisconsin</a> over “discriminatory” DEI practices, including offering up exclusive internship opportunities to racial and sexual minorities. 
According to the <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/12/DCP-Complaint-signed.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lawsuit</a>, filed by the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (WILL) on behalf of attorney Daniel Suhr, the state bar&#8217;s “Diversity Clerkship Program” violates the 14th Amendment by discriminating against hundreds of Wisconsin attorneys. The suit was filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. 
“When the government discriminates based on race, it sows more division in our country and violates the Constitution in the process. WILL is standing up against  discrimination and holding the State Bar accountable to the rights of its due-paying members,” WILL Associate Counsel Skylar Croy said. 
The state bar <a href="https://www.wisbar.org/aboutus/forlawstudents/Pages/Diversity-Program.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">describes</a> the program as a 10-week paid internship for a first-year law student from Marquette University Law School or the University of Wisconsin Law School. The bar says that students must come from “backgrounds that have been historically excluded from the legal field​​ who are in good standing.”
Suhr said that internships should be open for all students, regardless of background. 
“Internships are competitive — as they should be. But when one group is  given preferential treatment over the other to apply for these programs, the programs lose competitiveness  and hurt all Americans. This also goes against my beliefs entirely. The State Bar should do better and expand  these opportunities to all Wisconsin law students,” he said. 
The lawsuit says that the “Diversity Clerkship Program” should not exist, but says that at a minimum that dues from members of the bar should not be used to fund the internship. The suits says that the program violates the equal protection rights of law students.
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“For as long as the Bar is engaged in activities that are not germane to either regulating the legal profession or improving the quality of legal services, compelled membership is unconstitutional,” the lawsuit says. 
Suhr also says that his free speech rights have been violated through various political statements made by the bar, <a href="https://www.wisbar.org/aboutus/diversity/Pages/Racial-Equity.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">including</a> claims that, “Black Americans suffer from police brutality and crippling fear caused by systemic racism and implicit bias tha​​​​t is ingrained in our legal system.”
WILL wants the court to block the bar from keeping the program in place and to rule that Suhr’s free speech and free association rights have been violated.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/did-not-have-the-cojones-black-conservative-scholar-allegedly-plagiarized-by-harvard-president-blasts-university-for-keeping-her" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Carol Swain</a>, the author and legal scholar whose work was allegedly plagiarized by Harvard President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/embattled-harvard-president-claudine-gay-now-under-fire-for-alleged-plagiarism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Claudine Gay</a>, blasted Harvard University in an op-ed published Sunday, saying the school is part of a system “that holds minorities of high pedigree to a lower standard.” 
In her <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/claudine-gay-and-my-scholarship-plagiarism-elite-system-unearned-position-24e4a1b1?mod=opinion_lead_pos7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opinion piece</a> for The Wall Street Journal, Swain addressed Gay’s alleged plagiarism that researchers Christopher Rufo and Christopher Brunet brought to light last week, writing that the Harvard president’s failure to cite her work harmed her and “academia as a whole.” 
“Ms. Gay’s damage to me is aggravated because her early work was in the area where my research is considered seminal. Her scholarship on black congressional representation, electoral districting and descriptive representation builds on terrain where I plowed the ground,” Swain wrote.
“When scholars aren’t cited adequately or their work is ignored, it harms them because academic stature is determined by how often other researchers cite your work,” she added. “Ms. Gay had no problem riding on the coattails of people whose work she used without proper attribution.”
In her dissertation, Gay is accused of lifting passages from other scholars’ works at least three times. Along with allegedly pulling from Swain’s 1993 book, “Black Faces, Black Interests: The Representation of African Americans in Congress” and an article she wrote in 1997, Gay also allegedly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harvard-president-claudine-gay-responds-to-mounting-plagiarism-allegations-as-calls-for-ouster-intensify" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lifted</a> “nearly verbatim” work from Lawrence Bobo and Franklin Gilliam in their paper called “Race, Sociopolitical Participation, and Black Empowerment.”
Harvard has stood by its president amid the scandal, saying it conducted an independent review of Gay’s work, which “revealed a few instances of inadequate citation.” The Ivy League school added that her failure to cite the works she pulled from didn’t violate the university’s standards. 
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Swain, who previously taught at Vanderbilt University and Princeton University, said the backlash to Gay’s alleged plagiarism should be much more severe but lamented that many of the others Gay is accused of plagiarizing “aren’t as incensed” as she is because “they are elites who have benefited from a system that protects its own.” Swain then slammed Harvard for standing by Gay as its president since Gay’s work provides no “ground-breaking originality.” 
“In a world where the privilege of diversity is king, Ms. Gay was able to parlay mediocre research into tenure and administrative advancement at what was once considered a world-class university,” she wrote. “Harvard can’t condemn Ms. Gay because she is the product of an elite system that holds minorities of high pedigree to a lower standard. This harms academia as a whole, and it demeans Americans, of all races, who had to work for everything they earned.”
Swain also addressed the plagiarism controversy at Harvard on a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/morning-wire/anti-semitism-plagiarism-harvard-s-dual-crisis-saturday-extra" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Saturday Extra edition of The Daily Wire&#8217;s &#8220;Morning Wire&#8221;</a> over the weekend.  Swain <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dr-carol-swain-on-plagiarism-and-anti-semitism-at-harvard" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Gay’s alleged plagiarism and her recent troubling comments before Congress on anti-Semitism have been a “low point for American higher education.” She then slammed Harvard for attempting to “redefine plagiarism so that it can retain its first ever black president – who was clearly promoted based on diversity, equity, and inclusion standards.”

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/banks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bank of America</a> is under fire for a new mortgage lending program geared specifically to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/racial-discrimination" target="_blank" rel="noopener">black and Hispanic homebuyers</a>.
The loans, to be made in select minority communities throughout the country, require no down payments and no closing costs. Although white homebuyers in those neighborhoods who meet certain criteria are eligible for the program, the North Carolina-based lender said it is designed explicitly for blacks and Hispanics.
“Our Community Affordable Loan Solution will help make the dream of sustained homeownership attainable for more Black and Hispanic families, and it is part of our broader commitment to the communities that we serve,” A.J. Barkley, head of neighborhood and community lending for Bank of America, said.
The lending scheme, called the Community Affordable Loan Solution, is being rolled out in certain neighborhoods in Charlotte, Dallas, Detroit, Los Angeles, and Miami. It also has no minimum credit score requirement and buyers won’t have to pay mortgage insurance, which buyers who don’t put 20% down typically must pay.
California attorney Harmeet Dhillon said the program could potentially violate her state’s Unruh Act, a 1959 law that prohibits businesses from discriminating against consumers based on various factors including race, color, religion, ancestry, and national origin. She said it could also violate the federal Consumer Credit Protection Act.
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In California, this would seem to violate the Unruh Act. Also federal Title VIII … Bank of America announces zero down payment mortgages for Black and Latino homebuyers <a href="https://t.co/zzFDWhrmK5">https://t.co/zzFDWhrmK5</a> via <a href="https://twitter.com/NBCNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@nbcnews</a>
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Steve Cortes, a former CNBC, Fox News, and Newsmax business commentator who also served as a campaign spokesman for former President Trump, called the program racist.
“Hey Americans who happen to be white: You bailed out Bank of America when they (and every other big bank) nearly collapsed the economy,” Cortes tweeted. “Now…BofA pays you back with an explicitly race-based lending program that overtly discriminates against white people.  Had enough???”
Twitter user Breanna Morello joked on Twitter that she could qualify simply by identifying as a minority, even though she is not.
“As a transracial woman, I am excited that @BankofAmerica will be providing me and other transracial Americans with the opportunity of owning a home without a down payment and closing costs,” Morello tweeted. “Transracials EVERYWHERE need to take advantage of this opportunity.”
Bank of America has a checkered history with minority communities. Countrywide Financial, a subprime lender it bought in 2008, was <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-reaches-335-million-settlement-resolve-allegations-lending-discrimination" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fined</a> $335 million for allegedly charging black and Hispanic homebuyers higher interest rates than whites.

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The Biden administration&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/department-of-education" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Education</a> announced millions of dollars in funding for colleges that train more minority teachers.
The Department of Education announced $8 million in a federal funding grant program Friday &#8220;aimed at increasing the diversity of the teacher workforce and preparing teachers to meet the needs of our most underserved students.&#8221; The grant is named after Augustus F. Hawkins, the first black politician elected west of the Mississippi River. It provides federal funding to support teacher preparation programs at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU), so-called &#8220;Minority Serving Institutions,&#8221; and &#8220;Tribal Colleges and Universities.&#8221;
“At a time when we need to do more to support our teachers and the educator profession, Hawkins Centers of Excellence will help increase the number of well-prepared and qualified teachers, including teachers of color, in our workforce,” Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona said in a <a href="https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/department-education-makes-8-million-new-grants-available-help-colleges-strengthen-and-diversify-teacher-workforce">press release</a> Friday announcing the program. “We know that teachers of color benefit not only students of color, but all students. When students of color can see their backgrounds and experiences reflected in their teachers, we see higher levels of student achievement and engagement in school, and more students aspiring to be teachers themselves one day.”
The &#8220;Augustus F. Hawkins Centers of Excellence&#8221; program will target teacher training programs within these schools that &#8220;propose to incorporate evidence-driven practices into their teacher preparation programs.&#8221; By virtue of the fact that these schools educate a disproportionate number of minority teachers, they are &#8220;uniquely positioned to recruit, prepare, and place teachers who will provide culturally and linguistically relevant teaching in underserved and hard-to-staff schools,&#8221; the Department of Education said in its press release.
The program will also emphasize multilingual teachers, prioritizing applicants who &#8220;propose projects designed to increase the number of well-prepared teachers from diverse backgrounds, as well as bilingual and multilingual teachers with full certification.&#8221;
&#8220;Today’s teacher workforce does not reflect the demographics of the nation’s public school students,&#8221; the Department added. &#8220;More than 50% of public school students are students of color, yet in 2017-18, the most recent year for which data were available, only 21% of teachers were teachers of color. And while English learners are the fastest growing public school student demographic, comprising more than 10% of America’s enrollment, most states face a shortage of bilingual and multilingual teachers prepared and qualified to teach this population and foreign languages. These roles are critical for ensuring Americans can compete in the increasingly globalized economy, equal access to education opportunity for English Learners, and the creation of a strong economy in which all Americans can thrive.&#8221;
The <a href="http://augustusfhawkinsfoundation.org/establishment.html#:~:text=This%20new%20program%20%E2%80%93%20named%20in,%2Dserving%20institutions%20(MSIs).">Hawkins program</a> was created in 2008, under Part B of Title II of the Higher Education Act of 1965. This year is the first time the program received federal funding since it was created. The money was appropriated for the Department of Education as part of the omnibus budget for fiscal year 2022. Former President Barack Obama had previously proposed some $40 million in funding for the program in his 2012 budget, but it was not approved.
The Education Department&#8217;s move comes as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/unions-complain-of-dire-teacher-shortages-ahead-of-new-school-year-push-for-more-funding">teachers unions</a> call for more teachers and more financial resources to ease an ongoing shortage before the start of the 2022-2023 school year. National Education Association President Rebecca Pringle said in an interview that the U.S. is short by about 300,000 teachers and support staff nationwide.

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A <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/974507/20210331_-_CRED_Report_-_FINAL_-_Web_Accessible.pdf">report</a> released by a Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities in the United Kingdom showed that the country is &#8220;a relatively open society&#8221; and does not have a system that is &#8220;deliberately rigged against ethnic minorities.&#8221;
The report stated that the United Kingdom is not &#8220;yet a post-racial society which has completed the long journey to equality of opportunity.&#8221; It said that &#8220;outright racism still exists in the UK,&#8221; but according to its examination, &#8220;the evidence reveals that ours is nevertheless a relatively open society.&#8221; It also added, &#8220;The country has come a long way in 50 years and the success of much of the ethnic minority population in education and, to a lesser extent, the economy, should be regarded as a model for other White-majority countries.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-56585538">BBC</a> reported on the main findings of the study, which include:
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<li>Children from ethnic-minority communities did as well or better than white pupils in compulsory education, with black Caribbean pupils the only group to perform less well</li>
<li>This success in education has &#8220;transformed British society over the last 50 years into one offering far greater opportunities for all&#8221;</li>
<li>The pay gap between all ethnic minorities and the white majority population had shrunk to 2.3% overall and was barely significant for employees under 30</li>
<li>Diversity has increased in professions such as law and medicine</li>
<li>But some communities continue to be &#8220;haunted&#8221; by historic racism, which is creating &#8220;deep mistrust&#8221; and could be a barrier to success </li>
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The report had four main areas of focus: &#8220;education and training,&#8221; &#8220;employment, fairness at work, and enterprise,&#8221; &#8220;crime and policing,&#8221; and &#8220;health.&#8221; It also looked into &#8220;the intersection of some of the most pertinent causes holding back equality of opportunity,&#8221; including ethnicity, socio-economic background, geography, culture and degree of integration.
The report&#8217;s introduction stated, &#8220;We found that most of the disparities we examined, which some attribute to racial discrimination, often do not have their origins in racism &#8230; There is much evidence to suggest, for example, that different experiences of family life and structure can explain many disparities in education outcomes and crime. Early years experiences, including stability and security at home, matters to children more than anything else.&#8221;
Prime Minister Boris Johnson requested the commission to be formed last summer after racism became a main topic and concern in the United States.
The Chair of the commission, Tony Sewell, included a foreword at the beginning of the report, explaining his involvement. He stated that the commission was comprised of 10 members from various fields and all but one of them are from minority backgrounds.
Sewell wrote, &#8220;The word mistrust was repeated often as some witnesses from the police service, mental health, education and health services felt that the system was not on their side. Once we interrogated the data we did find some evidence of biases, but often it was a perception that the wider society could not be trusted. For some groups historic experience of racism still haunts the present and there was a reluctance to acknowledge that the UK had become open and fairer.&#8221;
Sewell also wrote that their information collected showed many circumstances of success among minorities. &#8220;These have often been ignored or have been seen to be of little interest (to the media),&#8221; he added. Sewell also stated that this is the first study on race commissioned by the government &#8220;that seriously engages with the family.&#8221;
Sewell wrote, &#8220;Put simply we no longer see a Britain where the system is deliberately rigged against ethnic minorities. The impediments and disparities do exist, they are varied, and ironically very few of them are directly to do with racism. Too often ‘racism’ is the catch-all explanation, and can be simply implicitly accepted rather than explicitly examined.&#8221;
He added that the evidence of the report demonstrates that other factors &#8220;have more significant impact on life chances than the existence of racism,&#8221; including geography, family influence, and socio-economic background. Still, he stated that racism is &#8220;a real force in the UK&#8221; and the commission takes it seriously.
<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-56585538">BBC</a> reports, &#8220;In a statement issued after the report was published, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said it was &#8216;right&#8217; that ministers now consider its recommendations in detail and assess &#8216;the implications for future government policy.'&#8221;
Johnson said, &#8220;The entirety of government remains fully committed to building a fairer Britain and taking the action needed to address disparities wherever they exist.&#8221;
Some are unhappy with the findings of the report and have specifically called out its discussion of slavery.
<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/british-governments-gaslighting-report-on-racism-says-slavery-had-some-upsides">The Daily Beast</a> reported, &#8220;Perhaps the low point of the report is when it appears to find some benefits of the African slave trade—an atrocity in which Britain very much led the way. The government report chirpily states: &#8216;There is a new story about the Caribbean experience which speaks to the slave period not only being about profit and suffering but how culturally African people transformed themselves into a re-modelled African/Britain.'&#8221;
The outlet reported that Rehana Azam, the national secretary of the GMB trade union, said, “Only this government could produce a report on race in the 21st century that actually gaslights Black, Asian, Minority and Ethnic people and communities. This feels like a deeply cynical report that not only ignores Black and ethnic minority workers’ worries, but is part of an election strategy to divide working class people and voters.”

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The <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsrr/VSRR10-508.pdf">CDC</a> recently released a report on life expectancy estimates in the United States using data from the first half of 2020 showing that life expectancy dropped an entire year. This is a significant decrease. In 2019, it had increased for the second year in a row.
The <a href="https://apnews.com/article/pandemics-coronavirus-pandemic-robert-anderson-hispanics-united-states-f4caaf4555563d09e927f1798136a869?utm_source=Twitter&amp;utm_campaign=SocialFlow&amp;utm_medium=AP">Associated Press</a> reports, &#8220;Life expectancy is how long a baby born today can expect to live, on average. In the first half of 2020, life expectancy at birth for the total U.S. population was 77.8 years, declining by 1.0 year from 78.8 in 2019.&#8221;
Health experts mainly attribute this to the pandemic, adding that the results from the second half of the year are not yet known. Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo is a health equity researcher and dean at the University of California, San Francisco. &#8220;I would expect that these numbers would only get worse,” Dr. Bibbins-Domingo said, according to the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/pandemics-coronavirus-pandemic-robert-anderson-hispanics-united-states-f4caaf4555563d09e927f1798136a869?utm_source=Twitter&amp;utm_campaign=SocialFlow&amp;utm_medium=AP">AP</a>.
Robert Anderson oversees the numbers for the CDC. He said, “This is a huge decline. &#8230; You have to go back to World War II, the 1940s, to find a decline like this.”
Health experts have also said that these numbers show the devastating overall effects of COVID-19, not just due to deaths from the virus itself, but also from complications of other health problems, such as cancer, heart disease, and more.
The <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsrr/VSRR10-508.pdf">CDC report</a> states, &#8220;Life expectancy at birth for males was 75.1 years in the first half of 2020, representing a decline of 1.2 years from 76.3 years in 2019. For females, life expectancy declined to 80.5 years, decreasing 0.9 year from 81.4 years in 2019.&#8221;
The worst impact was on minorities, according to the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/pandemics-coronavirus-pandemic-robert-anderson-hispanics-united-states-f4caaf4555563d09e927f1798136a869?utm_source=Twitter&amp;utm_campaign=SocialFlow&amp;utm_medium=AP">AP</a>, &#8220;with Black Americans losing nearly three years and Hispanics, nearly two years, according to preliminary estimates &#8230;&#8221;
“Black and Hispanic communities throughout the United States have borne the brunt of this pandemic,” Bibbins-Domingo said.
The <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsrr/VSRR10-508.pdf">CDC</a> report includes more information on the numbers among different races. &#8220;Regardless of Hispanic origin, life expectancy for the black population has consistently been lower than that of the white population but the gap between the two races had generally been narrowing since 1993 when it was 7.1.&#8221; In the first half of 2020, the life expectancy difference between black and white members of the population was 6 years, which is the largest since 1998.
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/18/us/covid-life-expectancy.html">The New York Times</a> reported on the impact that the coronavirus has had on minority communities:
<blockquote>Over all, the death rate for Black Americans with Covid-19 was almost two times higher than for white Americans as of late January, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; the death rate for Hispanics was 2.3 times higher than for white Americans.</blockquote>
Dr. Mary T. Bassett is a former New York City health commissioner and professor of health and human rights at Harvard University.
According to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/18/us/covid-life-expectancy.html">The New York Times,</a> she &#8220;said that unless the country better addressed inequality, ‘we may see U.S. life expectancy stagnate or decline for some time to come.’ &#8230; She said the coronavirus mortality rate for Black people between the ages of 35 and 44, for example, was ninefold greater than for white people in the same age group, according to data from last February through July.&#8221;
The <a href="https://apnews.com/article/us-life-expectancy-huge-decline-f4caaf4555563d09e927f1798136a869">AP</a> reports that Dr. Bibbins-Domingo also pointed to the CDC statistics as a reason for more equity in vaccine distribution:
<blockquote>More needs to be done to distribute vaccines equitably, to improve working conditions and better protect minorities from infection, and to include them in economic relief measures, she said.</blockquote>

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Speaking to Lily Eskelen Garcia, the president of the National Education Association, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said he had the same feeling that the NEA has about charter schools, adding that no “private charter school will receive a penny of federal money. None.”
Garcia asked Biden, “So I have one more question.”
Biden answered, “Sure.”
Garcia continued, “There are lots of people who think there are other ways to solve all of these problems and NEA members have pushed back against what we think are very misguided school reforms, like charter schools. Regularly now we’ve seen families and communities who will join us in fighting to save that neighborhood public school. You know how we feel about charter schools.”
Biden: Same way I feel.
Garcia: We’d like to know how you feel about charter schools.
Biden, shaking his head, stated, “I will not — there will be no federal dollars — I’m not Betsy DeVos — nor will my, my Secretary of Education be anything like her in terms of her attitudes about public schools. No privately funded charter school will receive or private charter school will receive a penny of federal money. None.”
“And any charter school that, in fact, is worthy of being able to be in education, would have to be accountable to the same exact school boards, the same exact mechanisms that the public school is accountable to across the board,” Biden continued. “There has to be transparency. Now a lot of these charter schools are significantly underperforming, significantly. I can see where you can have a school, for example, a specialty school in the arts or for music. But if you&#8217;re going to have a charter school, it cannot come at the expense of the public school. It cannot come at the expense of the public school.  We have to fully fund them. And any charter school that qualifies as essentially a chartered public school has to be accountable to the same standards, the same requirements, the same transparency as the public schools in that district are accountable to, meaning the Board of Education or whatever the mechanism and the controls of that school board.”
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As the iconic economist Thomas Sowell, who is black, wrote in <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/charter-schools-enemies-block-black-success-11592520626">The Wall Street Journal</a> in June, “Teachers unions and traditional public school administrators have every reason to fear charter schools.” He noted that students in charter schools in New York City outperformed students in public schools in 2019. He also pointed out that tens of thousands of students were on waiting lists for the charter schools, and the public schools would lose roughly $1 billion if those students transferred:
<blockquote>New York’s charter school students are predominantly black and Hispanic, and live in low-income neighborhoods. In 2019, most students in the city’s public schools failed to pass the statewide tests in mathematics and English. But most of the city’s charter school students passed in both subjects.
Such charter school results undermine theories of genetic determinism, claims of cultural bias in the tests and assertions that racial “integration” is necessary for blacks to reach educational parity with whites.
The success of New York City’s charter schools is not only a threat to educational dogmas. Competition from charter schools is an existential threat to traditional public schools in low-income minority communities, which tend to have even lower educational outcomes than traditional public schools as a whole. … by and large, in New York City the hard data in my new book, “Charter Schools and Their Enemies,” show most charter schools doing decisively better than the traditional public schools housed in the same buildings with them.
Teachers unions and traditional public school administrators have every reason to fear charter schools. In 2019 there were more than 50,000 New York City students on waiting lists to transfer into charter schools. If that many students were allowed to transfer, in a city where expenditures per pupil are more than $20,000 a year, the result would be that more than a billion dollars a year would transfer with them to charter schools.</blockquote>

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On Thursday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) painted the GOP as a group that is utterly indifferent to the “totally disenfranchised” and minorities, jeering, “Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn for what you just described?”
Pelosi was prompted by a rant from CNBC’s Jim Cramer, who fulminated as he recommended a list of items that taxpayers give a “huge chunk” of money for:
<blockquote>Why can’t you go across the aisle and say, “Representative Lewis, civil rights legend, would have loved it if we could do something for the totally disenfranchised in this country, no matter what. Can we give? Can we give a huge chunk of money to the people who are disenfranchised, to minorities who want so badly to stay in business, and can’t, and to people who are trying to go to college or have student loans who are minorities, who are the most affected because they had the least chance in our country?” That’s gotta be something both sides can agree to.</blockquote>
Pelosi smirked, “Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn for what you just described?”
Cramer, acting horrified, “Ooh, geez!”
“Yeah, that’s the problem,” Pelosi continued. “See, the thing is, they don’t believe in governance. They don’t believe in governance, and that requires some acts of government to do that. But just what you described is what Mr. Schumer, Chuck Schumer, is proposing that we do with some of the resources in the bill.”
“And you described Chuck Schumer’s proposal exactly,” she laughed. “In addition to the, um, the Heroes Act, if we’re talking about how much and how long and how targeted, [if] we’re going to juggle some of this money, let’s focus it where it’s going to do the most good.&#8221;
“Basically, economists tell us, spend the money, invest the money for those who need it the most because they will spend it, it will be a stimulus or at least a stabilization,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;And that’s a good thing; consumer confidence is a good thing for the economy. You know that better than anyone.”
Pelosi, who is <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/money/how-much-money-is-nancy-pelosi-worth">worth an estimated $114 million</a> according to her 2018 personal <a href="https://pfds.opensecrets.org/N00007360_2018.pdf">financial disclosure</a>, and the Democrats have a penchant for spending other people’s money. As far as the government using taxpayers&#8217; money as a panacea for the nation’s economic ills, legendary economist Henry Hazlitt noted in his classic “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Economics-One-Lesson-Shortest-Understand/dp/0517548232/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2XON6AH1C6HQ5&amp;dchild=1&amp;keywords=economics+in+one+lesson+by+henry+hazlitt&amp;qid=1596737820&amp;sprefix=Economics+in+One+lesson%2Caps%2C211&amp;sr=8-2">Economics in One Lesson</a>”:
<blockquote>Everywhere government spending is presented as a panacea for all our economic ills. An enormous literature is based on this fallacy, and, as so often happens with doctrines of this sort, it has become part of an intricate network of fallacies that mutually support each other … Everything we get must in some way be paid for and all government expenditures must eventually be paid out of the proceeds of taxation… Practically all government attempts to redistribute wealth and income tend to smother productive incentives and lead toward general impoverishment.</blockquote>
Famed economist Walter E. Williams <a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2013/10/30/is-there-a-way-out-n1732550?utm_source=thdaily&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=nl">explained</a>, “The fact that Congress has no resources of its very own forces us to recognize that the only way Congress can give one American one dollar is to first — through intimidation, threats and coercion — confiscate that dollar from some other American through the tax code.”
Video of Pelosi below:
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Can’t you find common ground with the GOP on doing something for minorities and the disenfranchised? <a href="https://twitter.com/MadMoneyOnCNBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MadMoneyOnCNBC</a>&#39;s <a href="https://twitter.com/jimcramer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JimCramer</a> asks.
“Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn for what you just described?” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says. <a href="https://t.co/RbVuuUTDhx">https://t.co/RbVuuUTDhx</a> <a href="https://t.co/pGOo20SBPR">pic.twitter.com/pGOo20SBPR</a>
&mdash; CNBC (@CNBC) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNBC/status/1291377038037835776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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