Little Rock When it comes to looking at the plight and prospects for students from lower income and working families it is not a matter of “no news is good news,” but all the news is bad news! Let us count just some of the ways…. The Supreme Court kicks affirmative action to the curb …
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Supreme Court Ok’s Building A Separate and Unequal Educational System
New Orleans There are now more than a dozen states that have banned the use of race as an affirmative action tool in determining admission to state funded colleges and universities. The Supreme Court in reviewing a ban by voters in Michigan determined on a 6-2 vote that it was OK with them. They went …
Poor, Minority Schools Get the Worst Teachers
New Orleans The Center for American Progress in Washington issued a report recently on the distribution of teachers within public schools which was deeply disturbing, even if not surprising. At the bottom line they found that public schools in high poverty areas were three times as likely to have teachers ranked as ineffective, and in public …