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Desegregation Advantage
==== U.S. schools still face rampant segregation --- reviving __federal intervention__ is critical to reverse the trend ==== Scott, 16 --- Ranking Member on the Committee on Education and the Workforce in the US House of Representatives (5/19/16, Bobby, “America's schools are still segregated by race and class. That has // Thanks //// in large part to federal intervention // in the decades following Brown, students experienced indisputable academic and social benefits inherent to racially and socioeconomically diverse learning environments to end,”

Inequality kills tens of thousands each year
Bezruchka, ‘14 — Senior Lecturer in Health Services and Global Health at the School of Public Health at the University of Washington, holds a Master of Public Health from Johns Hopkins University and an M.D. from Stanford University (“Inequality Kills,” Divided: The Perils of Our Growing Inequality, Edited by David Cay Johnston, p.194-195)

Desegregation is necessary to increase critical thinking, cooperative learning, reduce income inequality and break down racial division APA 12, Presidential Task Force on Educational Disparities. (2012). “Ethnic and racial disparities in education: Psychology’s contributions to understanding and reducing disparities”, pg online@

==== Education is key – it’s a central starting point to resolve multiple sources of inequality ====

Ireland, PhD in English from the State University of New York at Buffalo, 2016

Corydon, 2/15/2016, The costs of inequality: Educatio n’s the one key that rules them all, []

Plan
==== Thus we propose the following plan: The United States federal government, via Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment, should substantially increase regulations on K-12 schools that receive public funding by implementing a law to address racial segregation in public education. ====


 * Warming Advantage **

There is scientific consensus that warming is real, anthropogenic, and deadly.
Stern ‘15 (Stern studied the Mathematical Tripos and was awarded a is Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics at Peterhouse, Cambridge, and his DPhilEcon in economics at Nuffield College, Oxford with thesis on the rate of economic development and the theory of optimum planning in 1971 supervised by James Mirrlees, “Why Are We Waiting?: The Logic, Urgency, and Promise of Tackling Climate Change”, MIT Press, Apr 17, 2015, pg 9-10)

The increase in concentrations of GHGs  in the atmosphere to date has corresponded to an average warming across the Earth's surface  (combined land and ocean temperature) of around 0.8°C since the late nineteenth century (see figure 1.1 from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), the usual period of reference and one that will be used in this book

= **Solvency** =

A national climate education program is key to effective teaching and learning.
National Research Council ’10 (National Research Council. 2010. Informing an Effective Response to Climate Change. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.

Current and future students , the broader public, and policy makers need to understand the causes, consequences, and potential solutions to climate change; develop scientific thinking and problem-solving skills; and improve their ability to make informed decisions.


 * Plan**

====Plan: The United States federal government should increase climate change programs for elementary and secondary schools in the United States, including: setting national education goals based on the Next Generation Science Standards for understanding and mitigating climate change; and increasing grants for curriculum development and teacher training programs for climate education.====