Minnesota GOP proposes bill to end school desegregation, Senator says desegregation "ruined" schools

[Bjorn Against]

A move by Minnesota Republicans to repeal school integration laws resulted in heated debate about the decades-long program that aims to diversify schools in the Twin Cities metro area and Duluth. During a floor debate on elimination of desegregation programs Thursday, Sen. Dan Hall, R-Burnsville, said, “I watched Minneapolis get destroyed, so I not only didn’t want my kids in the school system. I took them out of Minneapolis because they ruined our neighborhoods with integration and segregation.”

The K-12 education omnibus bill in the House and Senate would take funding from integration and desegregation programs in the Twin Cities and Duluth and shift them to statewide programs for literacy. The bill also repeals the unfunded portions of Minnesota law dealing with desegregation.

Sen. Scott Dibble (DFL-Minneapolis) has significant problems with the bill. “Let’s talk about how segregated many of our communities still are,” he said. “Minneapolis over the last 40 years has been intensely engaged in desegregation and integration. With this bill, all that is now knocked away without any hearings.”

Dibble said the bill would harm college-readiness programs, college and career centers and magnet schools which have helped foster diverse learning environments, improved opportunities for minority students, higher adult incomes for low-income students and low-income students completing more years of higher education.

http://minnesotaindependent.com/79655/dan-hall-minneapolis-destroyed-by-integration-desegregation

They don't even try to hide their racism anymore.

[midnight]

1. No... I disagree with the Gop naturally... Not funding schools, and providing

small class sizes has ruined schools....

[sakabatou]

2. And the KKK removes their cloaks.

[47of74]

3. Must be a member of the Tea Klux Klan.

[robdogbucky]

4. Disaster Capitalism

the destruction of our public school system continues unabated, this time with an attack with racist undertones.

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. OMG

[MadMaddie]

6. If it is not clear for any doubter out there

This Republican movement has ALWAYS been about destroying any advancement by miniorities, women and workers in this country. They feel empowered now and they have 5 Supreme Court radicals to destroy existing laws.

Racism, Classicism, Hatred towards women....and the list goes on...they feel this is the prime time to go on the great offensive......

[MineralMan]

7. Thanks go for this to those Democrats who couldn't be bothered

to come to the polls in November, 2010. Great job, folks! Yes, indeed.

[jwirr]

8. Agreed. They gave us this bunch of bigots both state and fed.

[MineralMan]

9. Yup. I'm afraid so. There was really no reason for Minnesota's

legislature to go Republican. It was poor turnout by Democrats in those districts that gave the seats to the Republicans. The GOTV activism was low, except in some areas. In my own precinct, I could not get anyone to help me, so I walked the entire precinct myself. We turned out 60% of our voters and Democrats won with 60% majorities across the board in the precinct and in our congressional district.

Other places, not so much. It was a failure on the Democrats part to do the necessary work to get voters to the polls. Disgraceful.

[jwirr]

10. We kept Hilty and Lourey but I do not understand what happened

with Cravaack - my daughter told me that a lot of union supported him because he was in the pilots union but it is hard to believe that.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

11. Are the integration programmes doing any good?

I am always wary of the train of logic "Goal X is good; the stated intent of policy Y is goal X, therefore policy Y is good".

To give the devil his due, there is a *mile* of difference between opposing spending money on specific desegregation programmes and opposing desegregation.

The comment from Hall is inexcusable, however.

[MineralMan]

14. Hmm...depends who you ask. On your side of the pond,

things may be different than here. But, on the other hand, you lot have long experience in that area.

[chaska]

12. No one will hear me, but this dem says multiculturalism does not work.

And studies back me up on that.

[MineralMan]

13. Really? Tell that to the kids on my block, who represent

about as multicultural mix as can be imagined. You could ask them during one of their street football games, where everyone looks different from everyone else. No, I think multiculturalism is not only working, but essential in this century. We have enough monocultururalism in the United States, thanks very much. That's what's not working.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

15. This guy is not amused.

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