Word: badillo
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With Puerto Rican youngsters now making up 25% of the pubic school population, one of the community's highest priorities is education. But according to New York's deputy mayor for education, Herman Badillo, the city's efforts on behalf of Hispanic pupils are a "disaster in all areas." Says Badillo, a Puerto Rican: "We have plenty of jobs in the skyscrapers of midtown Manhattan; the problem is that kids can't spell...
Meantime, Badillo estimates the Puerto Rican school-dropout rate at 85%. Discouraged youngsters are almost natural prospects for membership in the city's underclass, quickly contributing to the ghetto plagues of violent crime, drug use and arson. Says one Lower East Side youngster: "A lot of kids want an education to get out of here. But in order to survive, they're dealing [drugs]. Kids ten and eleven make more money than their old man in the factory." Says another: "I saw some pictures of this place 20 years ago, and it had benches and trees. We took...
...Congressman Badillo points out that only 13 years ago he was the sole Puerto Rican actively engaged in elective politics. Now the community can boast three New York City councilmen, four state representatives and two state senators. Badillo's fellow Hispanics lamented his decision to abandon Congress for his deputy mayor's job, but his successor in Washington, Robert Garcia, is applauded as a compassionate, hard-working advocate of Puerto Rican concerns. Still, activists like Dora Collazo-Levy, 42, a Democratic Party district leader, complain that political passivity is the Puerto Rican community's principal bane. Says...
...earned a reputation for not returning Congressmen's phone calls. In October he was criticized for not warning key congressional backers of Israel that a joint U.S.-Soviet declaration on the Middle East was in the works. At about the same time he neglected to tell Representative Herman Badillo in advance that Carter planned to make a much-publicized walking tour of the South Bronx, the urban disaster area in Badillo's district. Last week House Democrats chided Moore and his White House colleagues for not putting up a solid enough front against compromise in the Senate...
...probably have finished at or close to the top. But instead of the predicted one-third turnout, a record 48% of the city's 1.9 million eligible Democratic voters went to the polls, and in the process made a hash of the pre-election surveys. Both Congressman Herman Badillo, who was born in Puerto Rico, and Manhattan Borough President Percy Sutton, a black, ran better than expected, carrying districts that would otherwise have been Abzug...