>>>>If you read the links in my article, you'll see that in fact, Sessions fought against fair funding for schools (which is related to desegregating them).
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>>>http://www.nj.com/education/2016/06/christie_nj_school_funding_announcement.html
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>>>So, are the people in Newark, Camden, et al, who are opposing Christie's plan to provide the same funding amount for every student racists?
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>>No. Unless the state is doing 100% of the funding, the state providing the same $ per student is an asinine approach that leads to unequal schools.
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>>Tamar
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>That's exactly what Jeff Sessions said.

No, it's not. Here's the article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/opinion/jeff-sessions-other-civil-rights-problem.html?_r=0

Here are some excerpts:

As a result, by the early 1990s, huge disparities in funding separated Alabama’s haves and have-nots. Alabama’s wealthiest school district (and also one of its whitest), Mountain Brook, in suburban Birmingham, spent nearly twice as much per student as the state’s poorest, Roanoke, in a declining manufacturing town about two hours southeast. Poor schools often lacked even rudimentary facilities, including science labs. They struggled to pay teachers, even to repair dilapidated school buses. Half of Alabama’s school buildings lacked air conditioning. Underfunded schools had a particularly hard time meeting the needs of disabled students, whom they were required to support under federal law.

Nearly 30 of Alabama’s poorest school districts, with support from disability rights groups, civil rights organizations and the American Civil Liberties Union, filed suit against the state. The most vocal critics of school reform, including the far-right activist Phyllis Schlafly’s Eagle Forum, warned that it would bring “socialism” to Alabama.

After nearly three years of litigation, Judge Eugene W. Reese of the Alabama Circuit Court found the inequitable funding unconstitutional and ordered the state to come up with a system to remedy the inequity.

Attorney General Sessions led the battle against the decision.

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IOW, schools in poor communities were underfunded. The courts said make the funding fair. Sessions said "no."

Tamar