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Another absurd burden on taxpayers.

That leaves only 40 to go.

American blacks don't always appreciate Haitians.

Portland schools are post- post-racial.

Students called him "stupid white cracker."

“He told the whole entire class that it is easier for him to teach rich white folks than poor black people.”

“After a while, I got hit and everybody just started fighting. So I hit back . . . ”

School erasure investigator berates administrators who called for investigation.

Truth is no defense.

Shows a "cavernous achievement gap" in New York.

Blacks are 17 percent of public school students but account for 31 percent of retardation diagnoses.

Whether they want to go or not.

Police fear retaliation against girls who railed against illegal immigrants.

Or perhaps those who aren't disposed toward school are already disposed for jail.

Russell Pearce recalled.

Washington isn't unique.

It didn't happen in Nebraska.

How do you defend against a charge of "white supremacy"?

Between immigrant blacks and their native-born counterparts.

Black teacher stabbed her white colleague 16 times with a screwdriver.

Sounds like a pretty good plan to us.

The problem in Burlington schools is "White, male, upper middle class, Christian, and other privileged perspectives and approaches."

"The numbers are egregious. They are embarrassing and distressing," trustee says.

How many dropouts are immigrants or children of immigrants?

Teenage girls regular beat each other in Detroit.

The Times finally discovers Mexicans.

The New York Civil Liberties Union says statistics confirm its suspicions about "over-policing."

Assembly "to celebrate cultural diversity . . . postponed due to racial tensions on campus."

"These gaps that we see in our early learners are consistent all the way through."

"All the black people want to fight the Mexicans and all the Mexicans want to fight the black people--it's as simple as that . . . ."

51 percent of black fourth graders lack "Basic" reading skills.

Increased contact will help students enjoy "one of the American school system's greatest untapped strengths."

Just when you think you've heard it all . . .

A workable solution to the "gaps" problem.

Detroit might go bankrupt, but the city scraped together $2.1 million for this.

21 percent of grade school students are Hispanic, compared to only 7 percent of teachers.

National Review proposes solutions to the unsolvable.

Blacks and Hispanics at each other's throats in majority-minority school.

In spite of twenty years of targeted programs and millions in spending, the gap widens.

The consequences of egalitarian silliness.

Actually they just act and perform worse in school.

Federal intervention to "narrow the gaps."

School district struggles to integrate students.

One county requires its gifted program to mirror the racial makeup of the school system.

This will only become more common.

Looks like we won't make those 2014 proficiency goals.

Scores are low but diversity is an "untapped asset."

This sounds like a record.

Pink witches.

1 in 4 will end up behind bars..

Between 15 and 20 students were arrested.

Ask the SPLC!

Though there have been 400 allegations of physical abuse, only two have been prosecuted.

69% of white Nebraska 11th graders are proficient in math, compared to 19% of blacks and 29% of Hispanics.

That explains everything.

Frustrated columnist can't accept that it might be bad students, not bad schools.

Muslims are still fond of corporal punishment.

Including requirement for public schools to check students' immigration status.

Halloween is also "problematic" due to its connection with witchcraft.

LA schools must improve performances of blacks and Hispanics or lose federal money.

Could high average IQs have anything to do with it?

They feature "revised historical accounts" to avoid offending minorities.

"We think it's shocking" that so many white people are teachers, diversity committee member says.

White principal was told she wasn't the right color for the job.

Suspension rates more than doubled for blacks and Hispanics since the 1970s.

High achieving racial groups are hurt most.

School had to fire three coaches because they had felony convictions.

There are some things money can't buy.

Of course, this is a result of "structural inequity" and "institutional racism."

Dispatch from a school of unteachables.

Schools haven't achieved the unachievable.

They moved the best teachers and principals to the worst schools.

One child accused of racism for calling another a "broccoli head."

Nine schools in New York City are "persistently dangerous."

They cheat at more than three times the rate of native Canadians.