To draw boundary lines
Jan. 10th, 2006 10:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
birdwatcherЧто надо сделать группе граждан, которая хочет построить школу? Скинуться? Занять в долг? Обратиться в сумасшедший дом? Неправильно: надо объявить голодовку. It took a 19-day hunger strike for supporters of the Little Village High School campus to apply the appropriate pressure on officials to get the institution built.
Только их в эту новенькую школу все равно не взяли: now, halfway through the campus' first year of operation, parents on the eastern half of the neighborhood are outraged that their children cannot attend schools there.
Но почему, почему? Officials said they drew boundaries to make the school racially diverse enough to meet federal desegregation rules and to avoid overcrowding by keeping classroom populations reasonably sized.
The Little Village neighborhood is overwhelmingly Latino, while the Lawndale neighborhoods are predominantly black. As a result, the roughly 400 freshmen on the campus are about 73 percent Latino, with the rest being black, school officials said.
Чему учит эта история? The debate underscores just how difficult it is to draw boundary lines for new schools in a city that is as racially and ethnically segregated as Chicago.
Только их в эту новенькую школу все равно не взяли: now, halfway through the campus' first year of operation, parents on the eastern half of the neighborhood are outraged that their children cannot attend schools there.
Но почему, почему? Officials said they drew boundaries to make the school racially diverse enough to meet federal desegregation rules and to avoid overcrowding by keeping classroom populations reasonably sized.
The Little Village neighborhood is overwhelmingly Latino, while the Lawndale neighborhoods are predominantly black. As a result, the roughly 400 freshmen on the campus are about 73 percent Latino, with the rest being black, school officials said.
Чему учит эта история? The debate underscores just how difficult it is to draw boundary lines for new schools in a city that is as racially and ethnically segregated as Chicago.
