Does Eric Holder have nothing better to do? Governor Jindal wrote an op-ed the other day arguing that race is the most soulless way to think about people. Holder should be forced to commit it to memory.

Even on his own bean-counting terms, Holder is wrong. A review of the research literature by the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice notes that almost every empirical study finds “that school choice moves students from more segregated schools into less segregated schools.” Since the advent of a voucher program in Milwaukee, the city’s private schools are only 35 percent white, whereas they used to be 75 percent white.

At the end of the day, the federal enmity to school choice is driven less by racial justice than by the teachers’ unions, whose answer to poor kids stuck in rotten public schools is always simple and direct: “Stay.”