Amassing & egregious misallocation of European financial, intellectual capital

Posted by DanielS on Wednesday, 23 September 2015 10:29.

Facebook file photo release: Mulatto, Zuckerberg and Gov. Christie (Mulattoes not to be confused with Anglin. Resemblance coincidental)

Of and for those with a hyper-assertive and wholly undeserving sense of entitlement - e.g., blacks and mudsharks - to those who get what they want, when they want:

Zuckerberg misdirects 100 million dollars and educational resources - wasted on Newark, New Jersey public schools and its overwhelming black student bodies. Of course the talk now is: what happened to the money? Why didn’t 100 million dollars help?

Can you imagine?

The centuries of sacrifice that Europeans made to contribute to the scholarly corpus, the days and years that scholars like Gregor Mendel went without female touch and appreciation (while Negroes were accommodating harems).

The lonely suffering that many an intellectual quest entailed to yield knowledge ...

To endure the hatred of liberals, pointedly, often White females whom he lives to love - miseducated to base instinct and anti-White interests, so typically making “anti-racism” a litmus test of initial interaction episodes with White males, whom she typically dismisses on slightest indication of circumspection as “wimpishness” or “nerdishness”, and after he “fails” the incitement of her litmus test of “alpha males”- viz. a liberal who shrugs-off all comers, from everywhere - as simply her prerogative, these females for whom he is starved for even talk of concern about heritage, now give their ultimate treasures to blacks, and empower those who take not only the economic capital of centuries, but even his last recourse, his intellectual quest, and force him to teach and educate those, such as blacks, who would torture and destroy him, turn his world into a science fiction nightmare, who take his ultimate treasure, his co-evoutionary women, for apes who have NOTHING to compensate him with, nevertheless proceeding as if they are entitled… still, the powers-that-be and their gate-keepers would even take what remaining consolation, of monetary and intellectual compensation, means by which he may perhaps have found redemption in an exceptional wife, of merit for her commitment to a sovereign life in respect of our peoples.

Liberals try to dismiss his concerns with conciliatory advice: “she’s stupid.”

Hmm. “She’s stupid”...and “she’s stupid and she’s stupid and she’s stupid”.. before long “she” has become an uncountable noun….

Uncountable though the noun is, they are “all his fault, because he doesn’t man-up.”

Not only does she need education ..to become still more liberal, to become still more Judaized and negretized..

He must educate the throngs of Negroes, and Muslims, etc., to make them more capable of his dispossession, of taking his co-evolutionary treasure. It’s “civil rights”: The involuntary, forced servitude to non-Whites and mudsharks. Everything that he sublimated and sacrificed-for, endured hell and torture for, must go to them. Including a trend of those White women of qualitative difference, who may not have appreciated finer intellectual quest, but may have been sufficient compatriots in a White Class. They’d take not only those of modest intellectual endowment, they would not only embezzle economic means, not only White women and public money to blacks, they would force him into directing his intellectual quest in their service. They would take the means by which he might even find and be found by the exceptions, and rather further equip those who would betray him and those, e.g. blacks and Muslims, who would enslave him and torture him to death, a techno-slave or a nerd slave of some sort wallowing in masochism of cuckold porn.

September 8, 2015

“Covering Innovation & Inequality in Education”

What happened with the $100 million that Newark schools got from Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg? Not much:

A new book delves into how the project went wrong

Dale Russakoff spent four and a half years reporting about Mark Zuckerberg’s $100 million gift to Newark public schools for her new book “The Prize: Who’s In Charge of America’s Schools?”

“The goal of improving education in Newark is not a hopeless one”- Dale Russakoff

Yes, it is hopeless - and worse: it is to rob and rape Europeans not only of their birthright, but of their intellectual history and posterity..

Yes, The Prize… Who’s In Charge of America’s Schools?... as it was with Brown vs. Board of Education - school desegregation and “civil rights”, the prize continues to be wrested from Whites by means of cultural-Marxist coalitions, its most recent permutation with CAIR and its discriminated-against Muslim school boy..

Facebook file photo release:Zuckerberg and Gov. Christie and Mulatto (not to be confused with Anglin)

Newark Mayor Cory Booker, left, and Mark Zuckerberg, center, founder and CEO of Facebook listen as N.J. Gov. Chris Christie talks about the states schools, during a press conference at the Robert Treat Hotel in Newark, N.J., Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010. Zuckerberg is there to talk about his donation of $100 million to help Newark public schools.

For the last 50 years, a combination of poverty and commonplace corruption has plagued Newark’s public school system. In 2010 fewer than 40 percent of students in third through eighth grade were performing at grade level. And most students did not graduate from high school.

That year, when journalist Dale Russakoff learned that Mark Zuckerberg, the billionaire Facebook founder, wanted to give $100 million to turn around the failing school system in Newark, she was amazed, “almost electrified,” she said. Hearing then-Mayor Cory Booker, Governor Chris Christie and Zuckerberg talk about it on “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” she thought they sounded like they knew exactly what they were doing. She soon learned they did not.

Russakoff spent four and a half years reporting and writing “The Prize: Who’s in Charge of America’s Schools?” which is being published this week. Her book, she says, “tells the story of Zuckerberg’s gift, how it came about and the forces that it unleashed, both intended and unintended.”

Listen to Dale Russakoff explain what happened in Newark

Russakoff talked with The Hechinger Report about “The Prize” and why Newark did not become an education success story. This interview has been edited for clarity and length.

Q: You write that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Newark’s then-Mayor Cory Booker set out not just to fix the Newark schools, but to create a national model for how to turn around an entire urban school district. What happened?

A: Thinking that way was part of the problem. Education in any city is not something that you can bring a model to and fix it. It’s a very human, granular, history-based challenge. And to see it as something that you can have a startup model for, that you can create a proof point and then scale up nationally, is just a complete misconception. The goal of improving education in Newark is not a hopeless one.

But viewing it as something that can be imposed from the top down as opposed from the bottom up, or at least in combination, was really a very central flaw. Their idea of improving the systems that govern education was intelligent, because the district is antiquated and even dysfunctional. The system needed to change. But they did that to the almost exclusion of working with the incredibly human issues that children bring into the classroom every day because they live in a world of concentrated poverty. That was a serious problem.

Dale Russakoff spent four and a half years reporting about Mark Zuckerberg’s $100 million gift to Newark public schools for her new book “The Prize: Who’s In Charge of America’s Schools?”

Q: Zuckerberg pledged $100 million to the Booker-Christie cause, on the condition that city officials raise a matching amount. Where did that money go? Is it making a difference in students’ lives?

A: Almost $50 million went to the teachers’ contract. The idea was to make teachers more accountable for student performance and to shed the teachers who were ineffective. I’m sure that the reformers feel that money helped kids, but if you look at the classroom level, it’s hard to see an effect yet. And $25 million went to expanding charter schools in Newark. Some of those charter schools are excellent, which is good for kids. There was $20 million that went to consultants who received, in general, a thousand dollars a day for carrying out various management reform efforts. There was this notion that consultants had the answers, and you could hire expertise, and pay for it at enormous prices, on the assumption that this was going to bring the magic answer, the silver bullet to Newark. And it was an enormous amount of money that went towards something that really didn’t have a lot of returns. I don’t think you could find any way that consultant money helped children.

Q: A lot of the controversy you describe is over former superintendent Cami Anderson’s One Newark plan, which required students to change schools and travel long distances to get there. What was the problem?

“There are tremendous numbers of parents and teachers in Newark who felt that the schools needed radical change, but there was no acknowledgement that those people should be playing a role in this One Newark process.”

A: There are tremendous numbers of parents and teachers in Newark who felt that the schools needed radical change, but there was no acknowledgement that those people should be playing a role in this One Newark process. I asked Cami Anderson about the lack of communication and she said the One Newark plan is, as she kept calling it, 16-dimensional chess, which was a way of saying it’s incredibly complicated. She said if you brought families in, of course every family was going to have some issue and if you fixed that issue you would create an issue for someone else. She felt it was important to make the decisions that she thought were the best for the families and the kids. In doing that, she missed a lot of input that was critical.

Related: At Newark school striving for turnaround, a 12-year-old’s fragile success

Q: What is the significance of the title “The Prize”?

A: “The Prize” ended up having many meanings to me. I learned early on that people who had been in Newark for generations talked about the Newark school district budget as the prize. It’s the biggest public budget in the city. At the time the reformers arrived there were 7,000 employees of the district and hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts. The patronage politicians, the political bosses and, of course, the elected officials all wanted to control the Newark public schools to enhance their own power.

But then there was Cory Booker, Chris Christie and Mark Zuckerberg. If, through their reform effort, they could take the Newark school district and turn it into a model for all urban school districts, that would be a prize for the education reform movement. And I saw the children and their right to an education as the ultimate prize. The subtitle of the book is “Who’s in Charge of America’s Schools?” I think that’s the prize all those forces will keep fighting for.

This interview has been edited for clarity and length.

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

- story by Arianna Skibell

“The goal of improving education in Newark is not a hopeless one”

I was born in Newark, on weekends visited my grandmother in one of its vestigial Italian enclaves and lived there at times. I saw what happened to those communities and to the city as a whole - and needless to say, its schools. Yes, it is hopeless and worse - it is to rob and rape Europeans not only of their economic capital, but also of their intellectual capital, its collective yield of history and for posterity.

Tags: Activism, Anti-racism, Awakenings, Economics & Finance, Education, Race realism, Social liberalism, That Question Again, U.S. Politics, White Genocide: America, White Nationalism

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Posted by Newark Now on Wed, 23 Sep 2015 19:45 | #

A walk though what was once a beautiful city…

You won’t believe it, but I’ll show you more pictures - to compare Newark then and now.

Posted by Newark then on Thu, 24 Sep 2015 13:55 | #

Newark 1926-27

Posted by Devlin on the manosphere on Fri, 25 Sep 2015 05:39 | #

F. Roger Devlin joins Richard Spencer to discuss his new book, Sexual Utopia in Power, and the tragicomedy of contemporary sexual relations: http://www.radixjournal.com/podcast/2015/9/23/the-rakes-progress

Posted by Tom Waits: For all the bachelors on Fri, 25 Sep 2015 06:29 | #

Tom Waits - better off without a wife:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rU-sCw1xnLU

For all the bachelors out there tonight, yeah for anybody who’s never whistled this song.
Maybe you whistled it but you lost the sheet music.
Um…this is um…well actually I don’t mind going to weddings or anything,
as long as there not my own I show up.
But I’ve always kinda been partial to calling myself up on the phone and asking myself out, you know?
Oh yeah, you call yourself up too huh? Yeah, well one thing about it, your always around.
Yeah I know, yeah you ask yourself out, you know, some class joint somewhere.
The Buretto King or something, you know. Well I ain’t cheap you know.
Take yourself out for a couple of drinks maybe.
Then there’d be some provocative conversation on the way home.
Park in front of the house you know.
Oh yeah, you smoothly put a little nice music on,
maybe you put on like uh, you know, like shopping music,
something thats not too interruptive you know and then uh slide over real nice and say
‘Oh I think you have something in your eye’.
Well maybe it’s not that romantic with you but Christ I don’t know, you know I get into it you know.
Take myself up to the porch, take myself inside or maybe uh,
or may get a little something, a brandy snifter or something.
‘Would like you like to listen to some of my back records?
I got something here’ Uh Well usually about 2.30 in the morning you’ve ended up taking advantage of yourself.
There ain’t no way around that you know. Yeah, making a scene with a magazine, there ain’t no way around.
I’ll confess you know, I’m no different you know. I’m not weird about it or anything, I don’t tie myself up first.
I just kinda spend a little time with myself
So this is kind of a little anthem here.

Oh it’s just kind of little anthem here

All my friends are married
Every Tom and Dick and Harry
You must be strong to go it alone
Here’s to the bachelors and the Bowery bums
And those who feel that they’re the ones
Who are better off without a wife

I been sleepin’ until the crack of noon
Midnight howlin’ at the moon
Goin’ out when I want to, and I’m comin’ home when I please
I don’t have to ask permission if I want to go out fishing
And I never have to ask for the keys

I never been no Valentino
But I had a girl who lived in Reno
Left me for a trumpet player didn’t get me down
He was wanted for assault
Though he said it weren’t his fault
You know the coppers rode him right out of town

I been sleepin’ until the crack of noon
Midnight howlin’ at the moon
Goin’ out when I want to, comin’ home when I please
Don’t have to ask permission if I want to go out fishing
Never have to ask for the keys

They say I’m kind of selfish about my privacy
Now as long as I can be with me
We get along so well I can’t believe
I love to chew the fat with folks
I have been listenin’ to all your dirty jokes
I’m so thankful for these friends I do receive

I been sleepin’ until the crack of noon
Midnight howlin’ at the moon
Goin’ out when I want to, comin’ home when I please
Don’t have to ask permission if I want to go out fishing
Never have to ask for the keys, no

Yeah, I got this girl, I know man this
She been married several times
I don’t want to end up like her
I mean she been married so many times
She got bright sparks all over her face
Yeah you know the kind

Tom Waits - Better Off Without A Wife

http://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107858745899/

Posted by Newark Now on Fri, 25 Sep 2015 07:54 | #

what dat?

Posted by Jewish "reasoning" on Sat, 26 Sep 2015 05:05 | #

Study Finds Students Underperform in Schools With Large Black Populations:

Federal study sheds new light on racial achievement gap in schools.

As concerns mount over the resegregation of the nation’s public schools, a new federal study shows that black and white students at schools with a high density of black students perform worse than those at schools with a lower density of black students.

The report, released Thursday by the National Center for Education Statistics, the research arm of the U.S. Department of Education, sheds new light on the achievement gap between white and black students and bolsters policymakers’ fears about the ramifications of increasingly segregated schools.

“I think that we all have some sort of anecdotal sense that racial isolation or the resegregation of schools going in that direction is not a good thing,” says acting NCES Commissioner Peggy Carr. “It’s not good for anyone. But being able to define it and put your finger on it … and be more diagnostic about the probable impact was really eye-opening for me.”

The report found that, on average, white students attended schools that were 9 percent black while black students attended schools that were 48 percent black.

Achievement was lower for both black and white students in schools where black students accounted for more than 40% of the student body, compared to schools where black students accounted for less than 20 percent of the student body.

“Students underperform in schools with large black populations” - that’s supposed to be a surprise, I guess.

Students underperform in schools with large black populations / including both black and White students - but “its not good for anyone to have school resegregation”.

Can anyone make sense of this Jewish / liberal “reasoning” ??????

Don’t let the smiling faces fool you; being bused to go to this integrated school back in the early 70s was a nightmare. When school wasn’t like being in a monkey cage, it was like being in planet of the apes.

Posted by Weev on technological transformation of war on Sat, 26 Sep 2015 18:18 | #

Weev on the players and the technological transformation of war:
will be massively a-symmetric and robotic.

Posted by David Stevens hacked to death on Tue, 20 Oct 2015 07:04 | #

Dallas Morning News, “Slain White Rock Lake runner remembered as kind, hardworking engineer”, Naomi Martin, Oct. 14, 2015:

David Stevens worked hard as an engineer and inventor, and he loved to run. The 53-year-old would jog and go for long bike rides with his wife on the weekends, neighbors said Wednesday.

But police say Stevens’ jog Monday morning at White Rock Lake had fateful, unfortunate timing.

A former Texas A&M football star, Thomas Linze Johnson, 21, picked Stevens, completely at random, and hacked him to death with a machete-type weapon, police said.

Stevens lived in Sunnyvale with his wife, Patti, a physical therapist.

Patti Stevens released a statement Wednesday afternoon:

“This is a horrible, senseless tragedy and we are devastated with the loss of such a wonderful man. It has created a huge hole in our hearts. As his family and friends begin to grieve, we would appreciate being given our privacy during this most difficult time,” she said.

A spokeswoman for General Electric, where David Stevens worked as a senior engineer, said his colleagues declined to talk today.

Stevens’ neighbors said the couple were friendly but quiet and largely stayed to themselves. They expressed shock over what happened.

“That’s a horrible way to die,” said neighbor Michael Knight, 54. “It’s terrible. They’re such sweet people.”

Another neighbor George Woodrow, 66, said he always saw Stevens leave his house early in the morning in sweatpants and sneakers to drive somewhere to go running.

Stevens was a giving neighbor who would sometimes bring out dog treats and help Woodrow train his bulldog, Bo, in their adjacent backyards. When Woodrow admired Stevens’ yard flowers, Stevens provided him with gardening advice.

“He was just a real gentleman, very kind, just a great neighbor,” said Woodrow. “I always saw him in jogging clothes. I read about it in the paper and didn’t realize it was him and thought, ‘How tragic.’ Now everybody’s just really in disbelief.”

Stevens ran in last year’s Dallas Marathon, records show. He finished 16th in his age group (50-54) in just under 3 hours, 25 minutes.

At work, Stevens was ambitious. Records show he filed five different patent applications for power and electrical inventions between 1997 and 2012.

Stevens worked as an electrical engineer at General Electric in Plano, said Gia Oei, a GE spokeswoman. He worked for GE and its predecessors, including Lineage Power and Lucent Technologies, for 29 years.

“We are shocked and deeply saddened by the news, and our thoughts and prayers are with David’s friends, his family and his coworkers,” Oei said.

Police and Stevens’ family informed the GE office in Plano of the news Tuesday night, Oei said. She said GE has grief counselors at the Plano facility today and is helping his widow through an employee assistance program.

Stevens was also an inventor. He and a GE colleague filed a patent for a transformer in 2013, according to records from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Posted by David Stevens wife commits suicide on Mon, 09 Nov 2015 16:41 | #

NY Daily News, “The wife of the Dallas-area jogger who was hacked to death with a machete committed suicide at the couple’s suburban home Sunday, police said”:

Police found Patti Stevens, 54, dead (on Oct. 25th) of a suspected suicide in the Sunnyvale house she shared with her husband Dave Stevens around 2:30 p.m., according to the Dallas County Sheriff’s Department.

Police said former Texas A&M football player Thomas Johnson, 21, killed Stevens, who had been married to Patti for 25 years, on White Rock Creek Trail during his morning run on Oct. 12.

Patti Stevens was struggling to eat, sleep or think clearly a week after her husband’s death, she told The Dallas Morning News at the time.

“Dave was the love of my life and I’m lost without him,” she said. “People need to know that this was a wonderful person going out and doing what he loved to do.”

Officers found her in the garage of the Brazos Lane home a week later, and police believe she died from carbon monoxide poisoning, neighbors told the Morning News.

Posted by Journalist loses detachment re Patti Stevens on Wed, 25 Nov 2015 01:33 | #

‘I lost any sense of journalistic detachment when Patti Stevens mentioned me in her suicide note.’

Dave and Patti Stevens, shown here in an undated family photo. This was among the photos that Patti Stevens left in her kitchen beside a note addressed to a reporter.

For wife of White Rock slaying victim, pain was unbearable.

I knew I had been the first journalist to speak with her. I didn’t realize I would be the only one.

“The fact that they know he was extraordinary — that means you did a good job,” she told me.

Was it good? I don’t know. I did a job. - Naomi Martin, reporter, The Dallas Morning News

Patti Stevens’ note to reporter Naomi Martin was left in her kitchen:

My Education for Naomi Martin at the Dallas Morning News
BS in Physiology Mich. State Univ
BS in Physical Therapy Univ of MI
Doctorate in Physical Therapy Univ of MI
Board Certified as an Orthopedic Specialist by the American Physical Therapy Association

Posted by At Europe's oldest university.. on Thu, 17 Dec 2015 14:33 | #

At Europe’s oldest university..

Diversity Macht Frei:

’Bologna University: Asylum invaders can study free, Italians have to pay’, 16 Dec 2015:

Students applying for international or humanitarian protection in Italy will be able to register at the University of Bologna, with a total exemption from fees for the year 2015-2016. This was the decision approved by the academic senate, which received a guest from the European Commission.

The registration, intended for anyone who has a residence permit for political or humanitarian asylum, also applies to those who have a temporary permit, in expectation of protection.

Posted by Negro blows smoke in teacher's face on Mon, 21 Dec 2015 12:27 | #

Negro student blows cigar smoke in teacher’s face.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAr-d6zn2ps

Posted by Salaam means peace, doesn't it? on Thu, 31 Dec 2015 16:26 | #

The noon press conference was called by a group of activists led by Salaam Ismial, co-chair of the New Jersey Study Commission on Violence, and Abdul Muhammad, a longtime Newark anti-violence activist. In a release announcing the event, the two said they planned to ask Mayor Ras Baraka to “unleash his quality of life plan in addressing ongoing violence facing Newark residents.”

As the group spoke to reporters, however, a group of Baraka supporters including activist Donna Jackson and Tyrone “Street Counsel” Barnes began heckling and shouting from the base of the steps.

It soon evolved into an intense face-off between Jackson and Muhammad, which then erupted into a skirmish between members of the two camps. At one point, Barnes put his hands around Muhammad’s neck and pushed him to the ground.

I thought Islam was a religion of peace? - Stan Hess report

Posted by Wiglers on Wed, 23 Mar 2016 10:35 | #

Wigler’s Bar, Newark, New Jersey

Does Trump want to re-direct good money after bad? I.e., waste yet more billions (trillions already wasted, actually) on blacks?

Posted by A real Giovanni on Fri, 15 Apr 2016 16:52 | #

TNO,“NY Settles with White Student”, 14 April 2016:

The New York school district being sued by a white former school pupil for refusing to prevent racially-motivated attacks has agreed to settle out of court rather than go to trial.

The decision by the Long Island Brentwood School District to settle without even posing a defense is being widely interpreted as an attempt to hush up the case to prevent similar legal actions being instituted by other whites.

Giovanni Micheli and his mother leave court after being offered an out-co-court settlement.

According to a report in the New York Post, the school district “accused of inadequately addressing a white student’s claims of racial harassment as a minority in a predominantly Hispanic and black school” abruptly settled the case for an undisclosed amount.

As originally reported, pupil Giovanni Micheli was repeatedly attacked, assaulted, and abused for being white in the majority nonwhite school. Repeated requests for help directed to the school authorities by Giovanni and his parents were ignored by the school staff.

After the first day of opening arguments in the Brooklyn Federal Court this week, defense attorney Jack Shields made the confidential offer to Giovanni and his parents inside a sealed courtroom.

“We’re very happy with the settlement,” Micheli’s mom, Michelle Micheli, said outside court.

Giovanni Micheli declined to comment on the case but smiled widely as he left the courthouse.

In his suit, Micheli said that he was repeatedly called “white boy” and “cracker” by black students during the 2008 and 2009 school years and was physically assaulted on several occasions.

His attorney, Wayne Schaefer, told jurors in his opening statement Monday that administrators barely addressed the problem because Micheli was a minority in the 4,000 student school.

Posted by New Jersey $ being funnelled to YKW schools on Tue, 31 May 2016 10:51 | #

NV, “New Jersey: Jews Have Been Funneling Public Money to Jewish Schools”

Published by Bradford Hanson, on May 30th, 2016

High Court says illegal practice must stop; Jews have stolen over $10 million; small grant to Princeton Theological Seminary was “cover” for Jewish theft.

A COURT has ruled that New Jersey cannot give $11 million in grants to two religious schools. (ILLUSTRATION: New Jersey Statehouse — Trenton, NJ)

The state appeals court ruled Thursday that the $10.6 million grant to Beth Medrash Govoha yeshiva in Lakewood and $645,323 to the Princeton Theological Seminary are unconstitutional.

The $10.6 million to Beth Medrash Govoha was granted for a library, research center and new academic space in an existing building. Princeton Theological Seminary was granted the money to upgrade library information technology and a training room and to remodel a conference room.

The American Civil Liberties Union and Americans United for Separation of Church and State had challenged the grants, made as part of $1.3 billion in grants in April 2013.

The lawsuit claimed the grants violated the state constitution’s prohibitions against using taxpayer money for places of worship and giving preference to a religion, as well as violate its stipulation that public money be used for public purposes. In addition, the suit stated the grant awarded to the Beth Medrash Govoha, an all-male Talmudic studies center, violates state law against discrimination based on gender.

New Jersey officials argued that the grants were okay because they were meant to pay for buildings and equipment, not worship or ministries.

Thursday’s ruling sets a precedent for New Jersey when it comes to the determining what institutions fall under the qualifications of a “ministry.”

The separation between church and state is occasionally blurred, especially with funding for parochial schools, as New Jersey often provides aid in the form of textbooks and busing for religious institutions.

But this bedrock provision is clear: The state’s constitution forbids subsidizing the building of facilities where religious instruction takes place.

So the ACLU sued to block the Christie Administration from awarding $11 million to a rabbinical school and a ministry in 2013. And while its case was based largely on sex discrimination, an appeals court last week voided both grants because these are sectarian institutions, not liberal arts schools with some religious instruction.

Most of the money was to fund capital projects at Beth Medrash Gohova, the large yeshiva in Lakewood. The fact that the area community can deliver a large bloc of Orthodox votes seemed more than coincidental: The community endorsed Gov. Christie when he ran for reelection in 2013.

This is a good starting point: Tax dollars shouldn’t go to schools that discriminate on religious grounds.

Indeed, the administration asked for this defeat. When a bond referendum raised $1.3 billion for state colleges that year, the Secretary of Higher Education went before the Senate Budget Committee and would not explain allocation criteria. It was information we were not entitled to have, Christie figured.

Source: LostMessiah

Posted by Cory Booker to be Hillary's VP? on Wed, 01 Jun 2016 21:21 | #

Posted by $617 million wasted on Detroit school bailout on Thu, 09 Jun 2016 19:09 | #

Talk about an egregious was of money:

Coming out of bankruptcy in late 2014, Detroit had a new lease on life - it had shed some $7 billion in debt and restructured another $3 billion, and could finally move forward, or so it was thought.

Detroit has hit two significant potholes on its recent road to recovery, one being the fact that it was “discovered” that there was an enormous pension shortfall, and now we learn that the Michigan legislature has just narrowly approved a $617 million bailout of Detroit’s Public Schools.

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