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March 2, 2006

The Dropout Rate as a Civil Rights Issue

Mitchell Landsberg:

The high school dropout problem is "the new civil rights issue of our time," Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa declared Wednesday in a speech that drew a line from the efforts to desegregate the South a half-century ago to today's struggles over the performance of Los Angeles students, who are predominantly Latino.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at March 2, 2006 6:40 AM
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