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- Ensure
that education in United States is declared a fundamental
right: "Education is perhaps the most important
function of state and local government."
- Call
for better enforcement of the Community Reinvestment
Act, which may be an obscure act, but is meant
to feed money into under-represented communities.
The segregated housing patterns continue to feed
and foment in much of the areas we have discussed
about the problems that Latinos currently experienced
in education.
- Ensure
policies within schools do not follow segregation
patterns, such as inappropriate disciplinary actions
against minorities, and watch school district outcomes
of alternative education models and use of non-certified
teachers, to ensure that none of those issues continue
to be problematic.
- Conduct
research to demonstrate that "separate but equal"
can never truly be equal, given that we continue to have
a segregated educational system.
- Have
researchers and writers talking about where we are now
and how impossible it is going to be within 25 years to
get to true equality of educational opportunities for
everyone in light of Justice O'Connor's disconcerting
opinion in the Grutter case that we have 25 years
to accomplish equality of educational opportunities for
everybody.
- Reform
the admissions practices in higher education by
continuing to call for a de-emphasis on standardized
testing and review alternative ways to admit students
to higher education.
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Roundtable
Co-Leads:
Mr.
Gary Bledsoe
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
Mr.
Albert Kauffman
Harvard Univeristy,
The Civil Rights Project
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