I hope you are enjoying this weekend with family and friends.
Welcome to the West Wing Week, your guide to everything that’s happening at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. This week, the President broke bread with My Brother’s Keeper mentees, shared the stage with Eric Holder and Aretha Franklin, and welcomed law enforcement officials and Peace Corps volunteers to the White House. While the Vice President was in Guatemala to discuss investing in Central America. That’s February 27th to March 5th or “Just a Souvenir!”
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Many Ferguson officials are the slimiest of all without any help.
But much of what they did is because they knew they wouldn’t be challenged
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After DOJ gives the most damning report of Ferguson police, protestors disrupt Selma instead of gathering stories for class action lawsuit.
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Scandal Episode 414: The Lawn Chair Over Justice for Brandon
http://www.awesomelyluvvie.com/2015/03/scandal-episode-414-the-lawn-chair.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Luvvie+%28Awesomely+Luvvie%29
Scott Walker bid to end integration program has schools seeking answers
Destiny Huven, an eighth-grader at Bayside Middle School, thought long and hard about where she wants to go to high school next year.
She made a pros and cons list, assigning point values to features she prioritized at several schools. A track program, lots of electives and Advanced Placement classes warranted high points. So did a respectable selection of cute boys.
Ultimately Huven, a Milwaukee resident who has attended suburban schools on the North Shore since kindergarten through a special racial integration program, settled on Nicolet High School — a choice made easier by the fact that Bayside is part of a K-8 district that feeds into the high school.
But Gov. Scott Walker’s 2015-’17 budget could upend Huven’s plans to attend Nicolet through the Chapter 220 program.
The governor has proposed eliminating the long-standing racial integration program, a move that could redirect $60 million in school funding and have a cultural and financial impact on Milwaukee, nearby suburban school systems and districts like Racine, Madison and Wausau.
The proposal has districts analyzing the complicated structure of school funding to try to get their arms around the potential impact of ending Chapter 220.
“It’s hard to speculate,” said Bob Lang, director of the Wisconsin Legislative Fiscal Bureau, which has yet to complete its own analysis of the legislation.
The governor’s proposal calls for phasing out the Chapter 220 program to reflect declining participation by school districts and pupils, according to Walker spokeswoman Laurel Patrick.
Students currently in the Chapter 220 program could participate through graduation, but districts would not be able to accept new students through the program — including Nicolet, which is its own district despite its network of feeder programs like Fox Point-Bayside.
The Chapter 220 program, named after the 1975 law that created it, is called “integration aid” in state budget parlance. Its signature feature is a voluntary school integration transfer program that provides busing for children of color living in the city to attend suburban schools and for white suburban children to attend Milwaukee Public Schools. The goal is to improve racial balance between schools and districts.
Student participation peaked about two decades ago, with close to 6,000 Milwaukee students transferring to suburban schools, and about 1,000 suburban children transferring to city schools. This school year, the program is used by just 1,456 city children transferring to suburban schools and 215 suburban children transferring to MPS.
http://www.jsonline.com/news/education/scott-walker-bid-to-end-integration-program-has-schools-seeking-answers-b99456791z1-295392981.html
The First Family in Selma thread is up!
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From DonnaDem over at TOD:
Ditto DonnaDem. I was 9 years old at the time too. My dad did get to vote for PBO before he died in 2010. I’m grateful that he lived to witness this historic momment, because he was a sharecropper, he knew exactly what the makeup and behaviors of this country and its people were and are about.
Good Morning, Everyone :)
Off to swim and run errands.
Good Morning, Rikyrah & Everyone.
It’s an historic day in America, particulalry SELMA, ALABAMA!
Happy Saturday, everyone. Would so love to go see my President but I know that it will be jam-packed. Also nice to see that former President Bush will be there. Sure did want to see President Obama, First Lady Michelle, Malia and Sasha. I know that they are soooooo gorgeous in person