JIM CROW 2.0: Biden's $250 Million Scheme to "Bus" White Students to Minority Schools
Schools bring back busing claiming there are too many black and Hispanic students due to "white flight."
Biden's Education Department is spending $250 million to segregate students based on race in K-12 public schools. They are specifically targeting non-minority affluent students to attend magnet public schools to reduce minority populations.
The racist practices we've uncovered—funded with taxpayer dollars through the U.S. Department of Education—are shocking. Legislation previously intended to help minorities impacted by discrimination is now used to discriminate against people of all races. Grouping students together based on race is a huge step backwards and reminiscent of pre-civil rights era racial discrimination.
In 1984, Congress passed the Education for Economic Security Act to establish the Magnet Schools Assistance Program (MSAP). MSAP funded desegregation in schools—both those forced to do so by court order or schools that were voluntarily desegregating under the 1964 Civil Rights Act's Title VI requirements.
The purpose of the MSAP was to eliminate segregation and discrimination in schools—not perpetuate it. Yet 40 years later, the U.S. Department of Education is restoring racially segregated schools with racial quotas designed to reduce the minority populations in schools using specialty magnet programs. Where busing 1.0 was meant to integrate schools because they were initially formed based on racist practices, this new virtual "busing 2.0" program does the opposite; but both involve recruiting students to certain schools based on their race alone.
In 2024, nearly $250 million was appropriated for MSAP funding to 19 school districts in 14 states. In May 2024, Biden made a budget request for an additional $20 million in new awards for the MSAP to “advance racial and educational equity”—leftist vernacular for racism. Here are just a few examples of the race-based admissions practices we uncovered funded by federal taxpayer dollars.
Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia will receive $15 million in grant funding to transform an existing elementary school into a public Montessori school. The project abstract seeks “to reduce racial and ethnic isolation . . . by transforming an existing elementary school with Hispanic isolation into a Public Montessori School.” The district also intends “for the Hispanic makeup of Bucknell ES to be reduced by 16 percentage points with further reduction after the grant period ends.”
Perhaps most egregious, the grant application claims Fairfax schools will market the magnet program to “affluent non-Hispanic families.” In June, the district was forced to pause its plans due to community outrage over the proposal, but it was quickly reinstated in November after school administrator recommendations to move forward.
Excerpt from Fairfax Public Schools grant application for the Magnet Schools Assistance Program
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Arkansas’ Little Rock School District admits in its grant application students are fleeing public schools in significant numbers to attend private and home schools. For that reason, they claim to have "minority group isolation"—too many black students in four schools. The Little Rock district plans to use MSAP funding to attract more non-black students back to the district, claiming the district has experienced “white flight.” The district will receive $14 million for this endeavor.
Metro Nashville Public Schools received an MSAP grant for nearly $15 million over five years. The purpose of the grant is to reduce “minority group isolation of black/African American students” in four schools.
North Carolina's Durham Public Schools will use a weighted lottery system of selecting students for schools funded by the MSAP program's $11.5 million award. Not every student will have an equal opportunity to be selected in the lottery—some will be weighted more heavily based on race or socioeconomic factors to "more accurately reflect the demographics" of the district.
Clark County Schools in Nevada will use its $15 million of taxpayer funding to decrease "the percentage of African American students" and stabilize "the percentage of Hispanic students" in one of its STEM-focused middle schools.
Longview Independent School District in Texas claims it has too many Hispanic students in the schools, so it's using $14 million of federal funds to entice more white students back to the district. Longview asserts it has a problem with "white flight" due to a "perception" the schools are not safe or rigorous enough. In other words, the school district is failing so it wants more money to throw at the problem and implement unconstitutional affirmative action programs.
Unconstitutional & Immoral
These grant applications highlight race-based admissions practices that are in stark contrast to the Brown v. Board of Education’s ruling that state-sanctioned school segregation is unconstitutional.
While school segregation was outlawed in 1954, it took decades to eliminate the policies of placing students in schools based on race. Busing was instituted to integrate students who were previously forced to segregate. This practice was met with resistance by people on all sides of the issue. No parent wanted their child to be forced to attend an unfamiliar school across town even if they were in favor of integration.
In 1974, Congress enacted a law that prohibited forced busing after the beginning of a school year. In 1975, then-Sen. Joe Biden sponsored an appropriations bill that barred the federal government from withholding funds from schools that refused to bus students based on race. At the time, Biden claimed the “assignment of schools and/or classes because of a person's race . . . is a counterproductive concept that is causing more harm to equal education than any benefit.” Busing officially ended in 1991 after the Supreme Court returned control of schools to localities. However, today Democrats led by Joe Biden are pushing a new form of busing with race-based admissions practices such as the MSAP.
It’s astounding the number of awardees admitting to recruiting white students back to public schools to reduce black or Hispanic "student isolation.” The racism in the U.S. Department of Education is disgraceful and the elimination of this institution cannot come soon enough.
The answer to substandard government education is not to further racist programs such as MSAP. Tax dollars must follow the student, so everyone has options for alternative education, not just the affluent.
