A federal appeals court ordered the Delta Charter School to accept more African-American students.
The school expanded into another parish, which was under a desegregation order.
The parish schools were 49.5% black. The new Delta Charter was 15% black.
A federal appeals court has affirmed almost all of a district court’s remedies to get Delta Charter School to accept more African-American students and stop violating a consent decree with Concordia Parish School District.
“The district court ordered that Delta could not enroll students from other parishes under desegregation orders without permission from the relevant school boards,” a three-judge U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals panel said in its 19-page ruling filed Oct. 12. “This requirement appears intended to limit Delta’s interference with the desegregation obligations of other parishes. But Delta’s consent decree says nothing about other parishes.”
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Hah … cherry pick and SEGREGATE … JIM CROW.
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Do you have a link to the full report?
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Here is the link. I added it.
https://louisianarecord.com/stories/511604841-federal-appeals-court-affirms-most-of-ruling-in-delta-charter-school-discrimination-case#.W9cN4ZbVLT4.twitter
Thanks for the reminder.
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A bit off topic here but Diane should report this:
Chancellor Carranza of NYCDOE has stated that 114,000 students in NYC schools are homeless.. A whopping 114,000 kids live in either a shelter home or homeless and we have billionaires around the country and around NYC giving away millions of dollars to corrupt charter schools and fake voucher schools.
When will people realize that POVERTY is the culprit for failing schools and not teachers! The slogan line for billionaires like mikey bloomberg and bill gates is that the teacher is the most important factor in a child’s education.
The mere fact that gates and bloomberg were able to earn billions of dollars is really mind boggling considering the fact that:
1. Mike Bloomberg was here in NYC as Mayor and controlled our schools. Ask any teacher if the schools have been destroyed or improved by Bloomberg and his ill advised policies. The answer will astound you.
2. Bloomberg continues to believe that the teacher is the main factor yet study after study prove that poverty is the number one factor in child education.
3. Bill Gates and Microsoft have some of the worst software on the market. Windows software is crap yet Gates got rich on it.
4. Bill Gates is the one who came up with the great idea to make large schools into small schools within the buildings. Well this experiment turned to crap as schools within the buildings are fighting with each other for shared common space such as gymnasiums, auditorium, cafeteria……Each school is shoved into small spaces with everyone on top of each other. Classrooms are jammed with kids over flowing many times with no desks or chairs to fulfill the need.
5.. Gill Gates has quietly admitted that his small schools initiative has been a complete failure.
These people were lucky in life but never one believe that people like bloomberg and gates are know it alls….But my motivation to write this note was from learning that we have so many kids in NYC that are homeless yet these people continue with their insane ideas and use us all for guinea pigs.
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Thank you for this comment. The NYC public schools are bashed for not doing more with an increasingly large number of extremely disadvantaged students.
And now that charters are allowed to cherry pick the kids who are not homeless so that the homeless students are a much higher percentage of the student body in public schools and are disproportionately few in charter schools, it puts even more of a burden on public schools.
It really does take some chutzpah for the pro-charter people who fought so hard for Betsy DeVos to be Secretary of Education to be bashing NYC public schools for “low test scores” when they refuse to even consider educating their rightful share of the most disadvantaged students.
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New Orleans has always been ground zero for segregation. In 1970 I met a private school teacher from New Orleans. She worked in a “Christian” school. She told me about the elaborate system of private schools that sprung up in the city after the Brown decision. These schools were patronized by mostly white families of means with the main objective of segregation. What is worse today is that we are fleecing public schools in order to use public funds to enhance segregation. This is a shameful misuse of public dollars.
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The grifting of the tech tyrants and hedge funders piles on top of racial bigotry.
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This was the not just the case for New Orleans, but the South in general after Brown, and now in the country at large. The history of private schools in New Orleans is twofold. Because of the large Catholic population, some Catholic schools are more than 100 years old. There has also long been a small group of independent schools that predate Brown by decades. There is no question that Brown intensified efforts to keep segregation and created a second wave of private schools that we designed to avoid contact with “them.” But it is a Southern and American issue not unique to New Orleans.
My high school was one of them, but it can be argued that it was equal parts of expansion of the suburbs. On my first day of school, having moved from another city where I attended an exceptional public school, I was shocked to see an all boys school with more than 1,300 students, 5 of whom were black and all were elite athletes. I heard the n-word more on my first day of school that I had cumulatively in my entire life. Because of my dark complexion, especially in Louisiana summers, I remember being asked, as a new student, if I was white or a n.
On the other hand, with all its warts and scars, Louisiana has a misunderstood place in the Civil Right Era. In the 1940s through the 60s, Louisiana was unique in the South in that it was the only state in which the numbers of registered black voters went up. If you read Taylor Branch’s trilogy of that era, it is conspicuous that Louisiana is mentioned sparingly, especially compared to Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia.
It is “a shameful misuse of public dollars”, but it’s an American problem, not just in one city.
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On the other, arguing against myself and supporting your view:
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/ruby-bridges-1960/
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Hoorah for justice! Shouldn’t every parish, though, every township, every city, and every state be ordered to desegregate? Shouldn’t every school be ordered to desegregate? Segregation reaches every corner of this country. I’m on the left leaning coast, and my school has classes that are vastly, predominantly black and Latino, and classes that are entirely white and Asian.
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…based on test scores.
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In other words, based on meaningless drivel, eh!
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It’s meaningless drivel, but worse than that, it’s economically and racially tinged meaningless drivel. Standardized test scores are fodder for the ignorant and the gullible, for both the purposeful and the unwitting racist.
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Now, now, LCT, is there really any need to be factual and correct in this day and age?
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Agree. Isn’t sad to have to write “Shouldn’t every school be ordered to desegregate?” They shouldn’t have to be ordered to do so. Back to reality.
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With all due haste too, eh!
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Don’t forget Milwaukee WI who is actually ground zero for vouchers. Now voucher and charter schools have expanded statewide and taxpayers are screaming. Most towns/cities use referendums to increase property taxes to fund their public schools. Milwaukee is not allowed to do that, but unemployment in the poorest community is so high, this would not work very well. So our Milwaukee Public Schools is being starved into extinction. Shameful.
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A federal appeals court …
Does that mean the charter school can appeal it to … wait for it… the Supreme Court.
Hmmm, wonder how that plays out.
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