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TexasTowelie

(117,273 posts)
Fri Sep 20, 2013, 12:09 AM Sep 2013

Gov. Bobby Jindal calls legal challenge to school vouchers 'immoral'

WASHINGTON — Gov. Bobby Jindal called on the Justice Department on Wednesday to give up its “cynical, immoral and hypocritical” challenge to Louisiana’s school voucher program.

“It’s simply immoral to tell these children they’ve got to stay in failing schools,” Jindal, a Republican, said at a press conference at the National Press Club.

The Justice Department filed a motion in August to stop the state from issuing vouchers, without federal approval, to students in school districts that are under desegregation orders. The change would take effect in the 2014-15 school year.

Justice officials said they’re not trying to end the voucher program.

The department “seeks a straightforward goal — to ensure that the state of Louisiana implements its school voucher program in a manner that complies with the U.S. Constitution and long-standing federal desegregation orders,” an agency spokesman said.

More at http://www.shreveporttimes.com/article/20130919/NEWS0401/309190010/Gov-Bobby-Jindal-calls-legal-challenge-school-vouchers-immoral-?nclick_check=1 .

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Gov. Bobby Jindal calls legal challenge to school vouchers 'immoral' (Original Post) TexasTowelie Sep 2013 OP
Butbutbutbut..... Manifestor_of_Light Sep 2013 #1
Well kicking children off food stamps is immoral to Asshole bigdarryl Sep 2013 #2
It just hurts, anymore. xfundy Sep 2013 #3
he IS the governor, so why are HIS schools failing did he say| nt msongs Sep 2013 #4
Bobby Jindal is an asshole gopiscrap Sep 2013 #5
 

Manifestor_of_Light

(21,046 posts)
1. Butbutbutbut.....
Fri Sep 20, 2013, 12:52 AM
Sep 2013

they just found out that "voucher schools" is not the same thing as "Christian schools".

Some woman legislator in LA just found out that there were other religions besides Christianity, and she was horrified that that voucher money could go to fund Muslim schools, and that there were Muslim schools in Louisiana!!

xfundy

(5,105 posts)
3. It just hurts, anymore.
Fri Sep 20, 2013, 01:46 AM
Sep 2013

To see what this country has become. And then some asshole who named himself after a character on "The Brady Bunch" goes out of his way to make it worse.

Thinking of naming myself "Endora" or "Jeannie" so I can blink the whole lot of them to Syria, or maybe Iran.

gopiscrap

(24,204 posts)
5. Bobby Jindal is an asshole
Sat Sep 21, 2013, 12:10 AM
Sep 2013

and a fucking puppet for corporations and ignorant rednecks and he's too stupid to realize it.

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