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...Albert Sidney Johnston High, Austin. Three years ago, the school had a largely vocational curriculum with a student body almost entirely composed of minority students. It lagged behind all other Austin schools academically. Recalls Principal Adan Salgado: "We were the doormat of the district...
...problem that turned out to be its inspiration: a 1980 court-ordered desegregation plan resulted in busing half of its students from white sections of town. When white parents began protesting against the new plan, Johnston's faculty became determined to improve the school. Led by Salgado, who can call most of his 1,700 students by their first names, the administration began beefing up the academic program, installing the school system's first computer center and adding advanced courses in French, Latin, math, biology and chemistry. White enrollment has grown from 44% during the first year...
Joseph F. Salgado...
Carlos I. Salgado...
...Washington, D.C., recital recently, Brazilian Pianist Ney Salgado was negotiating the tricky rapids of Ravel's Alborado del Gracioso. Suddenly - oops! - several notes failed to sound. Salgado stopped in midpassage, rose and faced his astonished audience. A memory lapse? Finger cramps? Hardly. "The keys are stuck - I cannot go on," Salgado explained walking offstage...