A Latino gang is intimidating blacks into leaving the city that was once an African American enclave. It’s part of a violent trend seen in other parts of the L.A. area.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0126-compton-20130126,0,977110.story
The bipartisan group’s proposal would grant legal status to most of the country’s estimated 11 million illegal immigrants.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-immigration-20130128,0,2085807.story
Disabled students could join traditional teams if officials can make “reasonable modifications” to accommodate them
Read more in Salon: http://www.salon.com/2013/01/25/schools_must_provide_sports_for_disabled_us_says_2/
Two Latino gang members have been arrested on suspicion of hate crimes after allegedly waging a campaign to force a black family to move from Compton, Los Angeles County sheriff’s officials said.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2013/01/compton-gang-members-arrested-in-alleged-hate-campaign-against-black-familly.html
State Board of Education President Debe Terhar said she was not comparing President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler when she posted a photograph of the Nazi leader on her Facebook page with a message critical of the administration’s new gun-control efforts.
Read more in the The Columbus Dispatch: http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2013/01/22/state-school-board-president-defends-hitler-post.html
A coalition of higher-education experts, civil-rights organizers, policy makers, and others is endorsing a set of proposals to improve the student-aid system.
Read more in The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/blogs/headcount/group-suggests-improvements-to-aid-system-with-an-eye-to-nontraditional-students-completion/33639?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Activists in a student-led immigrant-rights group have unveiled a spinoff Web site modeled on the Common Application that aims to pressure the widely used admissions portal to include “undocumented American” in its demographic questions and “undocumented status” in its nondiscrimination clause.
Read more in The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/article/Immigrants-Rights-Group/136839/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
An art show at an Alabama museum that was meant to feature the work of Troy University faculty members has been called off after the museum’s board deemed some of the images submitted by one of the artists to be offensive.
Read more in The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/museum-cancels-troy-u-faculty-art-show-over-concerns-about-offensive-images/54555?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Latino workers, demanding respect in a precarious job environment, helped boost the state’s unionized workforce by 100,000 in 2012.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-california-labor-20130124,0,795664.story
Women’s veterans groups applaud the change as long overdue. The reaction in Congress, which will review the move first, is mixed.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-combat-women-20130124,0,66796.story