The National Council of La Raza is a radical ethnic-nationalist operation that engages in weakening American sovereignty and shaking down taxpayers. Michelle Malkin summarizes the outfit’s vast and bigoted agenda, including its forays in education:

  • It demands in-state tuition discounts for illegal-alien students that aren’t available to US citizens and legal immigrants.
  • It joined other anti-assimilationists suing to prevent Proposition 227, California’s bilingual-education reform, from becoming law.
  • It gives mainstream cover to a poisonous subset of ideological satellites, led by Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan). The late GOP Rep. Charlie Norwood rightly characterized MEChA as “a radical racist group … one of the most anti-American groups in the country, which has permeated US campuses since the 1960s, and which continues its push to carve a racist nation out of the American West.”
  • It sponsors militant ethnic-nationalist charter schools subsidized by tax dollars (at least $8 million in federal education grants). These include Aztlan Academy in Tucson, Ariz., the Mexicayotl Academy in Nogales, Ariz., Academia Cesar Chavez Charter School in St. Paul, Minn., and La Academia Semillas del Pueblo in Los Angeles, whose principal inveighed: “We don’t want to drink from a White water fountain, we have our own wells and our natural reservoirs and our way of collecting rain in our aqueducts. . . The White way, the American way, the neoliberal, capitalist way of life will eventually lead to our own destruction.”