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Sept. 28 - Oct. 4, 2001
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S.F. Schools’ Enrollment Plan Still Being Debated
By Benjamin KingMembers of the community last Friday aired their grievances about the “Excellence for All” plan to retool the San Francisco schools’ assignment system by order of Judge William Orrick. This “fairness hearing” signaled one of the last steps in a saga that started over 15 years ago with two law suits: San Francisco NAACP v. San Francisco United School District (SFUSD) and Ho v. SFUSD. Parents and community members continued to express concerns about busing students to different neighborhoods and parental choice in school assignments, while trying to keep the importance of diversity in mind. |
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Also In Bay Area & California News
By Associated Press The cartoon showed two Muslim Arabs wearing turbans sitting in a demon’s hand, about to be consumed by the flames of hell. One said to the other, “We made it to paradise. Now we will meet Allah and be fed grapes and be serviced by 70 virgin women ...” But some students at UC Berkeley weren’t laughing. Dozens of protesters declared a sit-in on Sept. 18, the same day the cartoon ran in The Daily Californian. By 5 a.m. the next morning, they left the offices of the student newspaper peacefully. UC’s Dual Admission Scrapped:
A Better Chance:
New bill promises undocumented students access to higher education.
The legislative clock ran out on the plan to extend guaranteed admission to UC schools for students graduating in the top 12.5 percent of their class.
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