A final important equal opportunity issue in education is the current attack on civil rights in the Head Start program. |
And what is needed to prevent them from joining gangs was ample recreation for boys as well as girls, jobs and internships for training and money, and assistance to allow their families to live in decent homes. |
Another example of the educational inequality is the current debate over publicly financed school vouchers which will provide educational opportunities to a privileged handful, but deprive public schools of desperately needed resources. |
During the same period, the annual number of prisoners returning to communities has also increased several fold. |
Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads. |
Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime. |
I think we should worry about Social Security first and then tax cuts second. |
If we have a crunch, we can only deal with it by cutting spending. We cannot deal with it any other kind of way. |
If we increase spending, we have got to raise taxes or any combination. |
In fact, the Harvard study data indicates that 70 percent of African American children attend schools that are predominately African American, about the same level as in 1968 when Dr. King died. |
In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country. |
It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act. |
It is imperative, therefore, that we continue to recognize that a strong academic foundation is necessary for all students emerging from high school. |
It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree. |
Mandatory minimums have been shown to be discriminatory and waste the taxpayers' money. |