NAACP Details Opposition To `No Child' Lawsuit

The Harford Courant reports:

When lawyers clashed in a New Haven courtroom recently over a federal school reform law designed to help poor and minority children, state NAACP President Scot X. Esdaile couldn't help noticing who was missing.

"It was all white people on this side [of the courtroom], and all white people on [that] side - and the argument is about our children," he told a mostly black audience in Hartford Wednesday.
Esdaile, flanked by prominent national civil rights lawyers, explained why the state NAACP opposes a lawsuit filed by Connecticut challenging the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

The NAACP's decision to back the law is an effort to guarantee that poor and minority children are represented in the courtroom argument over how it will be applied in Connecticut, he said. Still, Esdaile stopped short of an all-out endorsement of the law, the centerpiece of President Bush's school reform agenda.

We predict over time, much of the educational establishment, will back the Bush centralizing education agenda.