300 students turned away from N.O. (public!) schools

Could this be why the Fuckmook-in-Chief didn't mention New Orleans even once at last night's SOTU: because at least 300 children have been left behind??!!

In an exceedingly rare move for a public school system, hundreds of children seeking spots in the city's schools have been turned away -- "wait-listed" -- and told that the campuses have no room, school officials said Tuesday....

In November 2005, the state Legislature voted to take control of 107 New Orleans public schools performing below the state average. That legislation put those campuses under the control of the Recovery District, leaving just 16 of the city's highest-performing schools under the local School Board's control....

Flozell Daniels, who is married to Orleans Parish School Board member Heidi Daniels, recalled trying to enroll a cousin's fourth-grade child in a Recovery District school and being told of the wait list.

"I intellectually understand how difficult this is, but it is morally criminal and it is illegal to keep a child from getting an education in America," he said. "It's unconscionable."

"Wait-listed"?! What is this, the flippin' Ivy League?! Children -- poor, African American children -- are being denied a public education, right here in the good ol' U. S. of A. (or at least on its outskirts

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