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“Just an hour ago, I received word that over seven additional speakers would be cut, and that my time would be cut in half from the original six minutes … A board and superintendent who insists on the commitment to transparency have decided to deny the voices of survivors and families of victims who intended to speak tonight.”

The Broward County, Florida, school leniency program that was likely the inspiration for the Obama administration’s plan to shrink the “school to prison pipeline” is part of a larger Obama-era plan to force school “equity.”

“Students (and teachers) have reported being fearful of going to school,” adds Kirsanow, who also chairs the board of directors of the Center for New Black Leadership. “One school principal stated unequivocally that the people that are most harmed are the good students who want to learn but are harmed by the chaotic environment.”

“The facts pattern that has emerged strongly suggests it played a role,” Manhattan Institute senior fellow Max Eden tells Breitbart News. “It’s not actually accurate to say that what Broward County did was the result of the Obama policy. It might be more accurate to say that what Broward County did was in some way the inspiration for Obama’s policy.”

President Obama is prepared to escalate military operations in Syria against ISIS, calling up Special Operations Forces to deploy in the area to assist local ground forces.

After he broke his 2008 campaign promise to recognize the Armenian genocide by refusing to use the term “genocide” this week on the 100th anniversary of the tragedy, most of the mainstream media, unwilling to slam their beloved president, has been conspicuously silent.