{"id":36239,"date":"2014-04-09T23:01:23","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T23:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36239"},"modified":"2014-04-10T01:54:28","modified_gmt":"2014-04-10T01:54:28","slug":"louisiana-ordered-to-provide-voucher-data-to-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36239","title":{"rendered":"Louisiana Ordered to Provide Voucher Data to U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"

Louisiana Ordered to Provide Voucher Data to U.S.<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Education Week<\/a>
\n2014-4-09<\/p>\n

Mark Walsh<\/strong><\/a>, Contributing Writer<\/p>\n

A federal judge has ordered Louisiana to provide annual data to the federal government on the students participating in the state’s private school voucher program.<\/p>\n

The April 7 order by U.S. District Judge Ivan R. Lemelle<\/a> of New Orleans appears to bring to a conclusion months of skirmishing between the state and President Barack Obama’s<\/a> administration over the voucher program and whether it will affect racial balance in the school districts still under court supervision for desegregation.<\/p>\n

The judge largely sided with the U.S. Department of Justice, ordering the state to provide data about the racial background of students enrolling in the voucher program…<\/p>\n

…The judge sided with the federal government in a skirmish over race classifications. The state had sought to exclude data on students who marked “black” as one of several race or ethnic categories they meet.<\/p>\n

“The state is now suggesting, for reporting purposes, a ‘new definition of black'” that would fail to take account of mixed-race students<\/strong>, the Justice Department said in a March court filing.<\/p>\n

“Adopting the state’s new proposed definition would thus undermine the United States’ ability to accurately and fully count students in public and private schools by race to evaluate … whether the voucher program has an impact on segregation in those schools,” the Justice Department said in the filing.<\/p>\n

Lemelle’s order requires the state to include data for black students “defined as any student who indicated black either alone or as one of several race\/ethnic categories.”<\/strong>…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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