Obama's Educrats Issue 'Racial Equity' Edict To Schools

IBD reports:

Just as school boards across the country scramble to meet new federal limits for punishing black students, Obama's educrats now want them to hit racial quotas for academic performance, too.

Last month, slipping almost everybody's notice, the Education Department's office for civil rights issued a guidance letter to 14,000 local school districts that expands "racial equity" beyond school discipline into virtually every aspect of public education.

Breathtaking in its scope, the 37-page edict warns school boards that they have to reach the same equity, based on "disparate impact" statistics, in:

1) advanced placement courses;

2) gifted and talented programs;

3) distribution of funds;

4) school facilities;

5) technology; and,

6) teacher talent, experience and diversity.

Those who don't get their numbers right risk forfeiting federal funding and being investigated for discrimination. It doesn't matter if school policies provide black students equal access to fast-track programs and resources. Or if standards are color-blind.

Obama's war against whites and asian-americans continues. Public education really is evil.