Legal Commentary

More On Berkeley?s ?Equity?-Induced Educational Fiasco

Last month I discussed how Berkeley Solves Racial Achievement Gap!. ?The solution,? I wrote, quoting a recent proposal that had been approved at a meeting of the Berkeley High School Governance Council,

is both obvious and simple: ?eliminate science labs and the five science teachers who teach them to free up more resources to help struggling students.?

Paul Gibson, an alternate parent representative on the School Governance Council, said that information presented at council meetings suggests that the science labs were largely classes for white students. He said the decision to consider cutting the labs in order to redirect resources to underperforming students was virtually unanimous.

Now comes frequent DISCRIMINATIONS commenter and retired editor extraordinaire, Linda Seebach, who has a thorough analysis of the ?equity?-induced Berkeley educational fiasco on the Breitbart ?Big Journalism? site. Read the whole thing.

Full post as published by Discriminations on January 28, 2010 (boomark / email).