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Another contributing factor is the growth of the Latino and Asian populations, he said. Public schools that were previously 80 percent white in the 1960s are now only 60 percent white and, according to Orfield, the percentage of white students in the classroom is falling across the country...
...study found the West to be the most segregated area for Latinos, but Orfield contended that New York is now the epicenter for both Latino and black segregation. He also said that in general rural communities are more integrated than suburban and metropolitan areas...
...very curious view that black or Latino or Asian children cannot learn without a majority of white classmates. It is old-fashioned, liberal ideology,” said Thernstrom, asserting that the logic behind Orfield’s assumption about integration’s potential to improve minority education assumes that blacks and Hispanics must be able to model their white peers in order to have a “proper education...
Most Angelenos have quickly warmed to their new police chief, and his campaign against gangsters has received widespread support, particularly from the black and Latino communities, which suffer disproportionately from Los Angeles' high murder rate. "He has enormous charisma, and his public articulation of the relation of policing to crime is brilliant," says Eric Monkkonen, professor of policy studies at UCLA...
...WILL IT PASS? It will be tough. Congress appears closely divided. Some Latino groups and labor supporters think it doesn't go far enough in helping immigrants, while conservatives complain that it is rewarding illegal activity. There are also questions about how hard President Bush will push for it, since the fight could be messy. Advisers insist that Bush is committed to this plan. "He knows this issue from Texas," says an aide. "He's always asking how this plan will help the guy in West Texas picking cotton." He also knows that he may get credit with some voters...