Political Futures

Economist Walter E. Williams: “Black congressmen and black public officials in general … always side with teachers unions in their opposition to … measures that would allow black parents to take their children out of failing public schools. … [T]hey themselves have abandoned public schools. They see their children as too precious to be sacrificed in the name of public education. … According to a report by The Heritage Foundation, ‘exactly 52 percent of Congressional Black Caucus members and 38 percent of Congressional Hispanic Caucus members sent at least one child to private school.’ Overall, only 6 percent of black students attend private school. … I don’t think anything that black politicians get from … others who have a vested financial interest in a failed educational system is worth committing whole generations of black youngsters to educational mediocrity.”