[lg policy] Los Angeles agrees to remedy academic disparities

[Harold Schiffman]

L.A. agrees to remedy academic disparities
October 12, 2011|Associated Press

LOS ANGELES - A 19-month civil rights investigation found that the Los
Angeles Unified School District failed to provide an equal education to
English-learners and black students, resulting in wide academic disparities,
the U.S. Department of Education announced Tuesday.

The district, the nation's second-largest, agreed to remedy the disparities
through various measures, including completely overhauling its
English-learning program and improving resources such as computers and
library books to schools with predominantly black student bodies.

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan said the agreement would help ensure
that every student in the district would have the same academic
opportunities "regardless of race or national origin."

http://articles.philly.com/2011-10-12/news/30271209_1_disparities-civil-rights-remedy

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 Harold F. Schiffman

Professor Emeritus of
 Dravidian Linguistics and Culture
Dept. of South Asia Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305

Phone:  (215) 898-7475
Fax:  (215) 573-2138

Email:  haroldfs at gmail.com
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/

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