Word: rican
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think it's a very good idea that Latino students get together independently from the organizations that are in existence now," said Wendell C. Ocasio '90, former president of La Organisacion (La O), the Puerto Rican students' association...
...doubt that Fernandez, 54, is serious. Born in East Harlem of Puerto Rican parents, the former high school dropout and University of Miami graduate comes to New York with firsthand knowledge of the city's racial and ethnic divisions. In Miami, he is credited with having transformed public instruction, a feat he hopes to duplicate in his new post. "We're losing the Gorbachev of American education," laments Andy Gollan, a spokesman for the Dade County school board. The question is whether the New York system, with its 27.3% dropout rate and entrenched tradition of cronyism, is ready for educational...