Fresno programs try to repair racial imbalance in student suspensions
Today's lesson is about tolerance, and the quote of the day comes from Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" speech. "They needed African American men," he said. Last year in Fresno County schools, about 64 percent of suspended students were Hispanic, 15 percent were black and 15 percent were white. I would always get kicked out for being late, but they never asked me why I was late. At Cambridge High, 75 percent of the student body is Hispanic and 12 percent is black. "I don't think
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