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Revelations about Randolph Ward, State Occupier of Oakland Schools!
Randolph Ward, the State Occupier (Superintendent) of Oakland's schools who is threatening to close many schools, is a member of Segregationist George Wallace's American Independent Party, who want the end of affirmative action, bilingual education, the expelling of undocumented immigrants, to close the Department of Education, Repeal the Voting Rights Act, and the elimination of federal income taxes.
Extensive research on Ward:
http://www.datacenter.org/research/oaklandtakeover.pdf
The Dallas Morning News
The Dallas Morning News
September 29, 2000
Ward's party affiliation surprises Dallas trustee
Group targets undocumented immigrants, bilingual ed
Author: Paul Pringle; West Coast Bureau of The Dallas Morning News
Edition: THIRD
Section: NEWS
Page: 22A
Dateline: LOS ANGELES
Article Text:
One matter that the Dallas school board doesn't ask superintendent candidates about is their political party affiliation.
If the trustees had posed such a question to Dr. Randolph Ward, who was rejected for the job Thursday, his answer might have surprised them.
Voter records show that Dr. Ward belongs to the American Independent Party, which wants to expel the children of undocumented immigrants from public schools, end bilingual instruction and repeal the U.S. Voting Rights Act.
Best known for then-segregationist George Wallace's 1968 presidential bid, the party also advocates scrapping all affirmative-action programs, eliminating federal income taxes and closing the U.S. Department of Education.
"Oh, my gosh," trustee Hollis Brashear said Thursday, when told of Dr. Ward's party membership.
That was shortly after the board voted 6-3 not to name Dr. Ward, the state-appointed administrator of California's Compton Unified School District, as a finalist for the Dallas post.
"We never ask for the political affiliation of anyone," said Mr. Brashear, a Ward supporter.
Dr. Ward did not respond to several requests for interviews about his party affiliation.
His spokesman in Compton, Fausto Capobianco, said Dr. Ward considers such queries an intrusion into his private life.
Los Angeles County voter rolls show that Dr. Ward has been a member of the American Independent Party since 1992, the year he last filed a registration affidavit. Much of the party's education platform - which endorses voluntary classroom prayer and expanded home schooling - is at odds with the positions of Dallas trustees.
Bill Attea, the trustees' executive search consultant, said he also does not quiz superintendent prospects on their party membership.
He said the topic is usually off limits, along with a candidate's religion and sexual orientation.
Mr. Attea noted that Dr. Ward's much-praised work in Compton offered no clue that he subscribes to the American Independent Party's views on education and other issues.
The party has about 430,000 members nationwide, 300,000 of them in California. Throughout its history, it has faced accusations that it opposes civil rights and fosters anti-immigrant sentiments. Party leaders deny those allegations. They describe the party's beliefs as "populist" and "constitutionalist."
The party is affiliated with the Constitution Party, formerly the U.S. Taxpayers Party.
The late Mr. Wallace, a former Alabama governor, won five Southern states as the party's presidential candidate in 1968, the party's high-water mark. During the civil-rights era, Mr. Wallace became a racial lightning rod for resisting federal efforts to integrate Alabama schools.
He ran again for the White House in 1972 as a Democrat but withdrew after a gunman's bullets left him paralyzed. Mr. Wallace later expressed remorse for his segregationist stances and sought to make amends with blacks and other minorities.
One of Dr. Ward's parents is black, and the other is white. The Dallas and Compton districts are dominated by minority students, mostly Latinos and blacks.
The party's current platform contains none of Mr. Wallace's old race-baiting rhetoric. And some of its tenets are reflected in three ballot initiatives approved by California voters between 1994 and 1998.
Those measures called for withholding government services - including public education - from undocumented immigrants, dismantling affirmative action in state hiring and university admissions, and sharply limiting bilingual education. Court challenges killed the proposition that would have removed undocumented immigrants from schools.
Generally, the American Independent Party promotes a "states' rights" approach to education and government. It says federal agencies should play no role in financing schools, vetting curriculum or setting scholastic achievement standards.
Copyright 2000, 2001 The Dallas Morning News
Record Number: 4185718
http://www.datacenter.org/research/oaklandtakeover.pdf
The Dallas Morning News
The Dallas Morning News
September 29, 2000
Ward's party affiliation surprises Dallas trustee
Group targets undocumented immigrants, bilingual ed
Author: Paul Pringle; West Coast Bureau of The Dallas Morning News
Edition: THIRD
Section: NEWS
Page: 22A
Dateline: LOS ANGELES
Article Text:
One matter that the Dallas school board doesn't ask superintendent candidates about is their political party affiliation.
If the trustees had posed such a question to Dr. Randolph Ward, who was rejected for the job Thursday, his answer might have surprised them.
Voter records show that Dr. Ward belongs to the American Independent Party, which wants to expel the children of undocumented immigrants from public schools, end bilingual instruction and repeal the U.S. Voting Rights Act.
Best known for then-segregationist George Wallace's 1968 presidential bid, the party also advocates scrapping all affirmative-action programs, eliminating federal income taxes and closing the U.S. Department of Education.
"Oh, my gosh," trustee Hollis Brashear said Thursday, when told of Dr. Ward's party membership.
That was shortly after the board voted 6-3 not to name Dr. Ward, the state-appointed administrator of California's Compton Unified School District, as a finalist for the Dallas post.
"We never ask for the political affiliation of anyone," said Mr. Brashear, a Ward supporter.
Dr. Ward did not respond to several requests for interviews about his party affiliation.
His spokesman in Compton, Fausto Capobianco, said Dr. Ward considers such queries an intrusion into his private life.
Los Angeles County voter rolls show that Dr. Ward has been a member of the American Independent Party since 1992, the year he last filed a registration affidavit. Much of the party's education platform - which endorses voluntary classroom prayer and expanded home schooling - is at odds with the positions of Dallas trustees.
Bill Attea, the trustees' executive search consultant, said he also does not quiz superintendent prospects on their party membership.
He said the topic is usually off limits, along with a candidate's religion and sexual orientation.
Mr. Attea noted that Dr. Ward's much-praised work in Compton offered no clue that he subscribes to the American Independent Party's views on education and other issues.
The party has about 430,000 members nationwide, 300,000 of them in California. Throughout its history, it has faced accusations that it opposes civil rights and fosters anti-immigrant sentiments. Party leaders deny those allegations. They describe the party's beliefs as "populist" and "constitutionalist."
The party is affiliated with the Constitution Party, formerly the U.S. Taxpayers Party.
The late Mr. Wallace, a former Alabama governor, won five Southern states as the party's presidential candidate in 1968, the party's high-water mark. During the civil-rights era, Mr. Wallace became a racial lightning rod for resisting federal efforts to integrate Alabama schools.
He ran again for the White House in 1972 as a Democrat but withdrew after a gunman's bullets left him paralyzed. Mr. Wallace later expressed remorse for his segregationist stances and sought to make amends with blacks and other minorities.
One of Dr. Ward's parents is black, and the other is white. The Dallas and Compton districts are dominated by minority students, mostly Latinos and blacks.
The party's current platform contains none of Mr. Wallace's old race-baiting rhetoric. And some of its tenets are reflected in three ballot initiatives approved by California voters between 1994 and 1998.
Those measures called for withholding government services - including public education - from undocumented immigrants, dismantling affirmative action in state hiring and university admissions, and sharply limiting bilingual education. Court challenges killed the proposition that would have removed undocumented immigrants from schools.
Generally, the American Independent Party promotes a "states' rights" approach to education and government. It says federal agencies should play no role in financing schools, vetting curriculum or setting scholastic achievement standards.
Copyright 2000, 2001 The Dallas Morning News
Record Number: 4185718
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