INVESTIGATION: A review of Virginia gubernatorial hopeful Terry McAuliffe’s
education platform shows that he aims to take away what is perhaps the big
 
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INVESTIGATION

McAuliffe Plan Could Lead To 1970s-Style Busing: Giving Parents A ‘Choice’
Leads To ‘Segregation’
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By Luke Rosiak

A review of Virginia gubernatorial hopeful Terry McAuliffe’s education
platform shows that he aims to take away what is perhaps the biggest choice
parents currently have when it comes to their children’s education: The ability
to choose a school by buying a home in a neighborhood that is zoned for it.

 

McAuliffe’s education plan entails pushing school districts to re-draw school
boundary zones to be “anti-racist” — in other words, 1970s-style busing that
could dramatically change families’ everyday lives by moving their kids to a
different school than the one they expected when they chose their home.

 

“Where parents have greater opportunities to choose schools (where integration
is not the goal), schools appear to become more segregated,” says the activist
paper cited by his plan.

 

The campaign plan calls for “creating 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.”

 

While details of McAuliffe’s plan to eliminate “modern-day segregation in our
schools” 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 called “Addressing the Lasting impacts of
Racist Choices on Virginia’s Education System.” The report uses the word racist
24 times. It laments “racist” educational systems in Virginia despite McAuliffe
having been governor from 2014 to 2018, and his lieutenant governor, Ralph
Northam, having held the post since.
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