Word: hispanicization
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Here is the kind of scene that probably won't be discussed before the President's advisory board on race relations: in California's working-class town of East Palo Alto, a group of Hispanic parents went before the black-controlled school board last April to demand better bilingual education...
Until now, the racial issue in public education has been sorting out the competing claims of white vs. African-American students: Who should be bused where? Or, how many dead white males should crowd the curriculum? But the newest racial flash point in schools in many parts of the U.S...
In East Palo Alto blacks made up 85% of the student population a decade ago; today almost 70% of the 5,000 students are Latino. But while the composition of the schools has changed, the composition of the people who run them has not. A black woman, Charlie Mae Knight...
And in many cities it has already led to bitter face-offs. In Dallas the school district's first Hispanic superintendent, Yvonne Gonzalez, resigned in September amid corruption charges brought by black employees; in response, Hispanic leaders demanded that the black associate superintendent who led the assault on Gonzalez step...
Invariably, the issue that drives Hispanic parents into local school politics is bilingual education. In East Palo Alto Latino parents filed a complaint with the state earlier this year demanding that the school district provide English-deficient kids with general instruction in Spanish along with daily English lessons. Says parent...