The Equal Justice Society joined a group of civil rights organizations in an administrative complaint filed today with the California Department of Education demanding that it directly intervene and investigate the illegal school funding allocations of over six million dollars by the Kern High School District and the Kern County Office of Education. California Rural Legal Assistance,ContinueContinue reading “Civil Rights Groups File Administrative Complaint Against Kern High School District and Kern County Office of Education”
Category Archives: ejs
50 Years Later, the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Today – July 2, 2014 – we commemorate the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The most sweeping civil rights legislation since Reconstruction, the Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination of all kinds based on race, color, religion, or national origin. The law also provides the federal government with theContinueContinue reading “50 Years Later, the Civil Rights Act of 1964”
George Will: Country Eager to “Feel Good About Itself” by Voting for a Black Man
Sam Stein on HuffPo today writes about George Will’s comments on the Powell endorsement of Obama. There will be “some impact,” Will declared. “And I think this adds to my calculation — this is very hard to measure — but it seems to me if we had the tools to measure we’d find that BarackContinueContinue reading “George Will: Country Eager to “Feel Good About Itself” by Voting for a Black Man”