Heyburn's ruling favors bureaucrats over kids

Jefferson County Public Schools' Superintendent Sheldon Berman responded to Tuesday's decision by U.S. District Judge John G. Heyburn III denying a request by two families seeking an injunction against the school district's unconstitutional student-assignment plan with this gem:

"It's always difficult for parents who don't get the decision they want."

Apparently, it doesn't bother Berman in the least kids in his own district are the losers here. He's just breathing a sigh of relief that his district won the first battle in a court case designed to finally put a death knell in this disastrous school district's continual attempts to circumvent the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 2007 that its race-based student assignment plan unconstitutional.

It will be interesting to see whether this bureaucrat and his judicial cohort, who repeatedly rules in favor of this failing district, gets away with sending kindergartners across town, forcing some of them to attend failing schools.