National School Choice Week starts tomorrow.
To mark the kickoff of “National School Choice Week,” American Federation for Children's Senior Research Fellow Corey DeAngelis joins “Fox & Friends Weekend” to discuss the National Education Association's launch of an anti-school choice campaign. .
The Georgia Senate has passed a bill to reorganize the school board districts of Georgia's second-largest school system after a federal judge ruled that the district was unconstitutionally discriminatory. It was approved.
But Democrats have warned that the Republican-backed maps won't solve racial disparities, and U.S. District Judge Eleanor Ross will issue a map to the Cobb County School District in the May 2024 election for four seats on the board. This led to the order not to use it. These districts had a 4-3 Republican majority, even though a majority of Cobb voters supported Democrats in recent statewide elections.
The lawsuit was brought by Cobb County residents and liberal political groups, alleging that Republicans illegally packed black and Hispanic voters into three districts in the southern part of the county outside Atlanta, while Republicans held four other districts. He claims to have consolidated his dominance. district.
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Ross agreed, finding that the people who drew the maps relied too much on race.
Republican Sen. Ed Setzler of Acworth said the map preserves core communities from current districts and called it “the product of a very thoughtful process.” But Democratic Sen. Jason Estevez of Atlanta, who represents part of Cobb County, said Mr. Setzler and Republicans short-circuited the normal local legislative process in an effort to maintain a Republican majority.
Georgia is in the process of redrawing school board districts in its second-largest school system following an order from U.S. District Judge Eleanor Ross. (Jeff Pachoud/AFP via Getty Images)
“This map and proposed legislation violates the clear provisions of a federal court order issued late last year,” Estevez said. “This map continues to crowd out Black and brown voters in Cobb County, especially on the south side of the county, limiting their influence.”
The map moves to the House of Commons for further debate. If lawmakers approve final passage, Ross will have to decide whether to pass a legal muster. If lawmakers don't act quickly, Ross could draw the map without input from the Legislature.
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“This is not something we have to wait until March,” Setzler said. “We have elections coming up in May.”
A new map could sway the board's Republican majority. The 106,000-student district has been riven by political strife in recent years, with the Republican majority often imposing its will over the protests of three Democrats.
The district appealed to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, arguing that the plaintiffs were pursuing a Democratic takeover of the board through the lawsuit. In a pair of confusing decisions last week, one three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals rejected the school board's reinstatement, while another three-judge panel on the same day Mr. Ross' injunction was suspended.
