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...unpopular strategy and return to neighborhood schooling, even if that meant some schools would resegregate. That's what happened in many districts, and the proportion of black students attending nonwhite-majority schools has increased over the past dozen years from 66% to 73%. In some parts of the country, Latino segregation is even higher, according to Harvard University's Civil Rights Project. Many school districts have given up trying to break up racial concentrations and instead are working to deal with the achievement gaps that accompany largely segregated schools-- a de facto return to the separate-but-equal idea that...
University officials said this week that four Latino employees won’t be laid off by the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, following an effort by students and activists to save the employees’ jobs. The employees said they were told on Oct. 3 they would lose their posts because some of their animal cage-washing duties could be completed by machines. But the four employees charged that they were actually to be fired because of their race and ethnicity. In recent weeks, students have rallied around them, forming a group to protest alleged racial discrimination against...
...meeting at Phillip Brooks House last night, students devised plans, such as November teach-ins and a December rally, to support several Latino employees of Harvard who claimed they were notified last month that they would be laid off in January. A flyer written by one of the affected employees alleged that the Office of Animal Resources (OAR) said it would fire four Latino animal technicians in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology (MCB). The flyer also alleged that OAR has a “history of hostility...towards Latino workers.” At last night?...
...competition to stay afloat hasn't improved ethnic tensions, either. For all the vibrant, cross-hemispheric diversity in Miami, its Latino, black and white enclaves remain segregated and mistrustful of one another. The Cuban exiles' dominion over much of Miami politics (remember the Elin Gonzlez uprising?) has bred resentment in some quarters. This showed in the outcry earlier this year when the Miami-Dade school board, whose system has a dismal 45% graduation rate, announced that it would spend tens of thousands of dollars in court to ban a kindergarten book about Cuba that it says...
...cutting off benefits to illegal aliens, taxing their remittances south of the border, and requiring proof of citizenship at the voting booth. The harshest bill would deny welfare and other benefits even to the U.S.-born children of illegal aliens - rights supposedly given them under the 14th Amendment. Latino groups, who were only recently being wooed by Republican candidates, were left aghast at the onslaught, calling it "a hate campaign" against immigrants and "anti-human being" to boot...