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...challenge for Latinos is to craft new election boundaries that will ensure winnable districts without aggravating Hispanics' tense relationships with blacks. In Houston, for example, blacks and browns have clashed over school-board realignments and a proposed city council expansion. "The big question is, Where do you draw the lines?" says Franklin Jones, a political scientist at Texas Southern University. "As Hispanics strengthen their push toward inclusion, we'll see more conflicts...
...picks up the Jackson Clarion-Ledger, which used to trumpet the segregationist line but today champions racial harmony, and reads slowly out loud about George Bush's threatened veto of the new civil rights bill and about a school-board vote in Jackson along racial lines. "The battle of human rights and race relations is over," he says, "but while most people don't express overt racism, their actions manifest a prejudice. We've got to persevere...
Poor communities are looking for the courts to save them, Robin Hood-style, by shifting funds from richer ones. "There are school districts with swimming pools," growls Steve Honselman, a school-board vice president in Illinois' Casey-Westfield district. "Meanwhile, we don't have advanced-placement classes." He and his wife are part of a class action demanding that the state equalize school funding. "With three children in the schools," says Honselman, "we've tried everything from bake sales to raffles to raise funds. But we can't raise enough." Last week Texas failed for a third time to come...
...doors. Several new folks in town, however, are not exactly who they seem to be. They are researchers from the Foote, Cone & Belding ad agency, sent there to soak up everyday life and find out what people are thinking in the place code-named Laskerville. They are eavesdropping at school-board meetings, at the local cafe and even at funerals (they say the eulogies really sum up the town's values). The ad people have gone to great lengths to blend into the scenery, leaving their fancy cars back in Chicago and driving pickup trucks. One agency executive was almost...
...city were intentionally segregated. In 1985 the Oklahoma City board adopted a policy that ended busing for kindergarten through fourth grade in favor of attendance at neighborhood schools. Single-race patterns of enrollment re- emerged in some neighborhoods; 11 of the city's 64 schools now have student bodies that are 90% or more black. Local civil rights leaders argued that the pattern was proof that the original desegregation program failed. School-board attorneys claimed that the racially unbalanced schools were the result of economic trends and patterns in housing, not of intentional segregation...