Word: ouseley
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...sides of the racial divide. Bradford's schools are among the worst in the country, so bad that the government has turned management over to a private company. The district is one-fifth non-white, but housing patterns often produce schools that are 98% white or 98% Asian. Herman Ouseley, former chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality, coincidentally issued a report last week on why race relations were bad in Bradford. Among other failings, it criticized politicians for making quiet deals with neighborhood ethnic leaders rather than tackling underlying problems. He sees hope in the young, who say they...