The Politics of Government Regulation
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/02/opinion/maryland-democrats-republicans.html
The deep-blue city seems to have grown weary of the
more radical elements of the new racial-justice movement.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/07/san-francisco-school-board-lowell/661470/
The San Francisco School Board recently returned the admissions policy at Lowell, the city’s most prestigious public high school, to the merit-based system that it had used for more than a century. Thus ended a short-lived lottery introduced in the name of racial equity. The board also abandoned a campaign to erase “The Life of Washington,” a WPA-era mural at George Washington High School by the artist Victor Arnautoff….
The modish demand for equity of outcome, as opposed to equality of opportunity, proved to be a bridge that many San Franciscans were unwilling to cross.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/02/opinion/maryland-democrats-republicans.html
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/07/san-francisco-school-board-lowell/661470/
The San Francisco School Board recently returned the admissions policy at Lowell, the city’s most prestigious public high school, to the merit-based system that it had used for more than a century. Thus ended a short-lived lottery introduced in the name of racial equity. The board also abandoned a campaign to erase “The Life of Washington,” a WPA-era mural at George Washington High School by the artist Victor Arnautoff….
The modish demand for equity of outcome, as opposed to equality of opportunity, proved to be a bridge that many San Franciscans were unwilling to cross.