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African-American leaders ask for probe of civil rights violations
- 03-29-2010
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By Connie Llanos/Los Angeles Daily News
Upset that black students were not included in a recently announced probe of potential civil rights violations at Los Angeles Unified, local African-American leaders are demanding federal officials include them in the investigation. The compliance review, launched two weeks ago by the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights, was the first of 38 planned nationwide. The probe will look at whether LAUSD has respected the civil rights of English-language learners and provided them equal access to educational opportunities. Leaders of several civil rights groups including the NAACP, Urban League and Black Educational Task Force, however, say the school district has chronically neglected African-American students and any civil rights probe of the nation's second-largest school district should include them. (more...)
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