Soft clouds

 

I remember sitting outdoors in the spring of 1968 watching clouds move above the mountain town of La Esperanza in Honduras while I listened to a Brahms symphony on the short-wave radio. If any music accompanied the drifting of these clouds over my part of Austin on July 1st, I didn’t hear it.

 

 

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Racial discrimination continues

 

The Department of Education has opened a civil rights investigation into a top-ranked North Carolina high school over alleged racial discrimination.

In a letter obtained exclusively by the Washington Examiner, the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights confirmed an investigation had been opened into the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics.

Education advocacy organization Parents Defending Education filed a complaint with the OCR in May, alleging the school’s “Step Up to STEM” summer program discriminates on the basis of race by only seeking applications from black, Hispanic, and Native American students.

“Another day, another investigation into one of the nation’s most celebrated high schools,” PDE Vice President Caroline Moore told the Washington Examiner. “While we are grateful the Department of Education is taking our OCR complaint about North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics seriously, it remains troubling that one of the best high schools in the country unabashedly discriminates on the basis of race.”

 

So begins a June 26th article in The Washington Examiner. You’re welcome to read the full article.

 

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