🚀 go-pugleaf

It was never in doubt.  The blogger who originally 
wrote about this, Mike Allen 
(http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0707/4957.html), 
got it absolutely right.  "[G]iving bonuses to schools 
in affluent areas that enroll low-income students" 
means giving them the money to bus the inner city 
"students" [scoff] to suburban schools.  That's what it 
means.  EVERYONE knows that's what it means.  EVERYONE 
knows that that's what Edwards means with his 
$$$$-4-everyone proposal.


PITTSBURGH -- Democratic presidential candidate John 
Edwards on Tuesday called for measures to strengthen 
education for poor children and make schools more 
economically diverse in order to fight poverty.

"We don't just have racial segregation in our schools, 
we have huge economic segregation," Edwards said while 
on the Pittsburgh leg of an eight-state tour to 
highlight poverty issues. "We have two public school 
systems in America ... one for those who live in 
wealthy suburban areas and then one for everybody else."

Speaking to about 250 people in Pittsburgh's 
impoverished Hill district, Edwards criticized last 
month's Supreme Court decision rejecting school 
diversity plans in Seattle and Louisville, Ky. He said 
the ruling turned "on its head" the landmark 1954 
desegregation decision stemming from the Brown v. Board 
of Education case.

The former North Carolina senator and 2004 vice 
presidential candidate proposed giving bonuses to 
schools in affluent areas that enroll low-income 
students, creating magnet schools in inner cities and 
providing bonus pay for teachers willing to teach in 
inner cities. He also pitched the idea of 
"second-chance schools" for those who dropped out of 
high school.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1131AP_Edwards_Poverty_Tour.html