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Barrios, a Cuban-American originally from Florida who would be the first Latino in the state senate, has brought two terms of experience as a state representative to the race—and a love of door-to-door campaigning...
DISMISSAL SOUGHT. Of verdicts against five black and Latino youths convicted in the beating and rape of the so-called Central Park jogger in 1989; after DNA evidence reportedly linked the crime to Matias Reyes, 31, a convicted murderer and rapist who is serving a life term in prison. Lawyers for three of the men have filed a motion seeking to overturn the conviction and plan to present their case before a judge this week...
Barrios has led a distinguished career in public service, and the election of an openly gay Latino man to the Massachusetts State Senate would be positive and unprecedented. But the fact that one of Cambridge’s two full-time state representative seats was lost under Barrios’ watch leaves us with concerns about his determination to fight for Cambridge’s crucial interests...
Take John F. Kennedy High School, which at first blush is a picture of integration, with 21% white students, 22% black, 35% Asian and 16% Latino (the remainder are primarily Pacific Islanders, Filipinos and American Indians). J.F.K. routinely ships top graduates to Ivy League schools. But while the typical Asian kid has a 3.01 grade-point average, African-American kids score 1.85. What's going on? School district superintendent Jim Sweeney attributes the gap to class differences. J.F.K. students come from two neighborhoods--a middle-class area known as the Pocket, and a low-income, predominantly black and Hispanic part...
That explanation is too simplistic for Patricia Gandara, a University of California at Davis professor of education and Sacramento resident. She believes that teachers and administrators stereotype students on the basis of race. There are plenty of examples--from the teacher who asked a Latino boy if his parents had jobs (his mother was a school principal) to the Mexican child in an advanced-placement class who was asked whether she was Asian (her classmates couldn't imagine that a Latina could perform so well). "The schools make assumptions along class lines about which parents care and which...