2 civil rights groups claim Texas education discriminates against minorities 3:24 PM CT
03:34 PM CST on Monday, December 20, 2010
Two leading civil rights groups for African-Americans and Hispanics are jointly asking the federal government to step in and force anti-discriminatory initiatives in Texas public education.
“We know that we have to be in Austin, but one way that we’re doing this is also appealing to the federal government,” said Hector Flores, former national president of the League of United Latin American Citizens, during a news conference today at Dallas City Hall.
“We know that the TEA [Texas Education Agency] has been failing our communality miserably, African-American and Hispanics,” Flores said. “We know that in Texas there are many dropout factories even here in our own community.”
Standing with him were other LULAC officials, as well as local officials of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
The groups singled out, among other problems, curriculum changes made this spring by the Texas Board of Education, which apply new