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SF school district’s double standard
Submitted by Diallo Dphrepaulezz on 5.14.2001
A recent confidential investigation of the San Francisco Unified School District reveals gross misuse of funds. Nearly amounting to blatant fraud, Superintendent Ackerman was forced to call in the FBI to investigate mishandling of millions of federal dollars. The city has begun internal criminal and civil investigations of several former and current district employees.
California Teacher Training Bias Puts Politically Correct Methods Over Proven Methodology, Study Finds
Submitted on 5.1.2001
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - California's K–12 teachers are trained in student-centered teaching methods that lack support in research and undermine learning, according to Facing the Classroom Challenge: Teacher Quality and Teacher Training in California's Schools of Education, a study released today by the California-based Pacific Research Institute.
Elimination of UC Color-Blind
Submitted by Lance T. Izumi, J.D. on 5.1.2001
When he was elected California’s lieutenant governor, Cruz Bustamante had the reputation as a political moderate. Yet, for much of his tenure, Bustamante has been a leader of liberal forces that wish to re-institute race preferences in government policy. Indeed, Bustamante, who also sits on the University of California Board of Regents, will propose at the regents’ May meeting that the UC drop its 1995 ban on racial preferences in admissions.
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