NAACP Battles Latino Group Over Special Schools For Immigrant Students

The Daily Caller reports:

A Maryland chapter of the NAACP and the Latino activist group Casa de Maryland are squaring off over a plan to open two new schools to help immigrant students learn English.

The Prince George’s County chapter of the NAACP calls the facilities “separate but unequal,” and its president, Bob Ross, fears that money for the schools will be diverted from black schoolchildren, WUSA 9 in Washington, D.C. reports.

But Casa de Maryland claims that the facilities will help immigrant students assimilate into society. Supporters of the schools also cite a statistic that nearly half of non-English speaking students in the county drop out before graduating.

Conflict in the Democrat party.