Not Again.

[kandrathe]

My state doesn't have a good racial balance, so if we don't fix it by exchanging people with 1/2 the population of Alabama...

The bill was crafted to deal with the divisive issue of the OPS "One City, One School District" Plan. The plan, which includes an amendment written by Senators Ernie Chambers and Ron Raikes, will turn the Omaha Public School System into three smaller districts.
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Chambers and Raikes say the plan would give minorities control over the school board and make sure minority schoolchildren aren't shortchanged in favor of white students.

Nebraska Senator Ernie Chambers
Nebraska Senator Ron Raikes

I don't think Ernie is in the Klan Doc.

I think this is more about rich (whiter) kids parents sending their kids to better (private or suburban) schools, while poorer (browner) kids get bussed all over across Omaha. Public schools are cash strapped with trying to figure out how to pay for fuel to shuffle fewer students around an ever increasing geographically dispersed area. The OPS plan was a school consolidation plan, and when you do that and kids get more hours on the bus each day it makes ALL parents upset.

The point is made on this Blog for another city, Portland -- Rethinking schools: 'choice' has gottta go!

Now, as a libertarian I am all for people having choices, like where to work, or send their children to school. But, I also believe that diverse people can learn to live together in communities. This is another issue not neccesarily about skin color, but more likely about opportunity, education and wages. There will always be some racists and bigots, and we just aren't going to get them to cooperate and they will find the WASP-iest schools where they will send their reichjugendführung.