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in "More Palatable" Racial Preferences (07/01/99 - dead link) "Sixty-six ninth-grade students and 11 teachers from their high schools are the first participants in the Pre-College Enrollment Opportunity Program for Learning Excellence, or PEOPLE. "'Our hope is to enhance skills and the pursuit of a secondary education, said Cleveland James, UW's assistant director of undergraduate admissions. 'This program is targeted at a specific area.' "[In formulating the program] [a]n important question that arose was, 'How do we do a better job of attracting diverse students, and increase our visibility?' James said. To answer this question, a UW committee developed the PEOPLE program.
"Each year, a new crop of students will be brought into the seven-week research
program. Four of the weeks will be spent in Milwaukee, and the remainder will be at
the UW campus. The majority of the students participating this year are minorities -
53 are African American and six are Hispanic or Latino." (The Badger Herald
07/01/99 by Bonny Wolter) Wisconsin (Milwaukee): Black and White Milwukee
Area Residents Oppose Busing (10/17/99) "Of the 800 adults polled this month in the metropolitan Milwaukee area, 73% said they did not support busing for integration - a resounding condemnation of two decades' worth of social policy in the city. "Opposition to busing was slightly less strong among respondents who live in the city (66%) but still represented a solid majority. By race, 78% of white respondents opposed busing; 56% of blacks opposed the policy. "The poll was conducted for the newspaper by the Public Policy Forum and Lein/Speigelhoff Inc. of Brookfield between Sept. 24 and Oct. 11. "It also asked participants about a provision in the new state budget intended to end most busing in Milwaukee and divert the money to pay for bonds to build and enhance neighborhood schools in the city.
"About 70% of the respondents supported the Neighborhood Schools Plan, with similar
support coming from city residents. (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 10/17/99 by Joe
Williams and Alan J. Borsuk) Wisconsin (Milwaukee): Black and White
Milwaukee Area Residents Oppose Busing (10/17/99) "Of the 800 adults polled this month in the metropolitan Milwaukee area, 73% said they did not support busing for integration - a resounding condemnation of two decades' worth of social policy in the city. "Opposition to busing was slightly less strong among respondents who live in the city (66%) but still represented a solid majority. By race, 78% of white respondents opposed busing; 56% of blacks opposed the policy. "The poll was conducted for the newspaper by the Public Policy Forum and Lein/Speigelhoff Inc. of Brookfield between Sept. 24 and Oct. 11. "It also asked participants about a provision in the new state budget intended to end most busing in Milwaukee and divert the money to pay for bonds to build and enhance neighborhood schools in the city.
"About 70% of the respondents supported the Neighborhood Schools Plan, with similar
support coming from city residents. (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 10/17/99 by Joe
Williams and Alan J. Borsuk) Wisconsin (Milwaukee): Milwaukee
Public Schools Open School Choice to Whites (04/29/99) "But supporters of the measure, which was passed on a 6-1 vote, said the action was long overdue and will stem the loss of white families that move to the suburbs to get around the policy. The action, if permitted by the state, would have an immediate impact on about 400 children rejected from the choice program by Milwaukee Public Schools officials because they were white and their leaving would damage the district's racial balance. "Parents of those students have until Saturday to appeal the decision for the 1999-2000 school year. They were advised by board members to do so if they want to be in a position to benefit from the change. "I hate to see any parent send their child out of MPS, but I'd like to make it a voluntary decision on their part," said Bruce Thompson, the board's newly elected president. "The real intent of this board is to make MPS so good no one wants to send their child out." "The Milwaukee chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has indicated it may file a lawsuit challenging the action. "Separate schools are inherently unequal," said NAACP President Jerry Ann Hamilton, one of the few to speak against the change Wednesday. "Separate schools do not improve the education of our children." "The lone no vote on the board came from Charlene Hardin. Voting yes were Thompson, John Gardner, Joe Dannecker, Donald Werra, Jeff Spence and Larry O'Neil. Ken Johnson was absent.
"In the 100,000-student MPS system, just under 20% of the students are white,
creating a racial balance of about 4 to 1. That's the ratio the district must maintain
under state law, which prevents officials from implementing open enrollment if it upsets
the existing balance. In effect, that means white students are unable to transfer to
suburban schools, even if they are accepted there. At the same time, minority students who
live in the suburbs cannot choose Milwaukee schools." (Milwaukee Journal
Sentinel 04/29/99 by Greg J. Borowski) Wisconsin (Milwaukee): End school race quotas, mayor says
(04/20/99) "He spoke out particularly against restricting the number of white students allowed to transfer out of Milwaukee schools under the state's open enrollment plan for all public schools, and he said the Chapter 220 voluntary city-suburban desegregation plan should be ended by putting those students under the open enrollment law. "Both the white student restrictions and the future of Chapter 220 have moved to the front burner of local education politics. Some members of the newly revamped Milwaukee School Board want to drop the open enrollment restrictions, while Gov. Tommy G. Thompson's proposed state budget calls for scaling back the financial incentives offered to school districts that take part in 220.
"[Mayor] Norquist criticized the effect on the city of mandatory racial integration
efforts going back to the order by U.S. District Judge John W. Reynolds in the 1970s that
led to extensive use of school buses to increase racial integration of schools.
"These artificial constraints have really proven to be a failure," Norquist said
in an interview. "They create more segregation." He said the practical effects
of racial quotas had hurt students and parents from all racial and ethnic groups and
motivated many people to leave the city. "Why do this? Let's stop. Let's focus
on what parents want and need for their children and get out of the social
engineering," Norquist said." (Milwaukee Journal 04/20/99 by Alan J.
Borsuk) Wisconsin (Milwaukee): Parents
challenge racial limits of open enrollment (04/19/99) "This is a tough issue for a naive 9-year-old to understand," said Krista Seefeld of Bay View, whose son was one of 400 students rejected from the public school choice program by MPS because they were white. Wisconsin last year began allowing students to seek available seats in any public school system in the state outside of their own district in a program called "open enrollment" or public school choice.
"In Milwaukee, limits are placed on the number of white students who may leave the
city for suburban schools because the decrease in white students would increase the
percentage of minority students in the district. No other class of students has limits on
their participation." (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 04/19/99 by Joe Williams) Wisconsin (Madison): Professors
back plan to attract minorities (04/06/99) Wisconsin
(Madison): Student
Demands 'Niggardly' be Prohibited at University of Wisconsin (02/03/99)
According to the Star Tribune: "Upset about the word' s similarity to a racial slur,
Rideau talked to her professor, who then explained the word' s background, she said. On
Friday, the professor repeated the word and defined it for the class, Rideau said. Angry
he revisited the topic after she asked him not to, Rideau began to cry and stormed from
the room. On Monday, she brought three black friends with her to the class for support,
she said." (Associated Press, via Star Tribune 02/03/99) Wisconsin (Madison): UW Faculty Votes to End Speech Code! (03/02/99) (no link) "In a historic 71-62 vote, the Faculty Senate approved legislation Monday, which will, according to senators, go into effect immediately and allow 'all members of the university to express openly their ideas and opinions.'
"After an ad hoc committee spent 17 months studying speech-code options and a final
two-hour meeting of debate and amendment, the senate finally approved the code, which
reads in part, 'accordingly, all expression germane to the instructional
setting--including, but not limited to, information, the presentation or advocacy of
ideas, assignment of course materials and teaching techniques--is protected from
disciplinary action." (U Wisconsin "The Daily Cardinal" 03/02/99, by
Andrew Miller)
Wisconsin (Milwaukee): UWM Setting Affirmative Action Goals (03/23/99 - dead link) "A draft document calls for the proportion of 'underrepresented racial/ethnic groups' among students to rise from 14% to 25%, with a jump in the seven-year graduation rate from 19% to 50%, by 2003. Other proposals include $25 million in privately funded full scholarships for minority students, increases in minority faculty and staff, and expansion of a precollege program to reach 5,000 Milwaukee Public Schools students as early as fourth grade.
"Our explicit commitment to affirmative action [racial quotas and preferences] is
being dramatically increased with this document," said Robert Drago, an economics
professor and co-author of The Milwaukee Commitment, a plan for racial and ethnic
diversity at the university." (Journal Sentinel, 03/23/99, by Jack Norman) Wisconsin, Milwaukee: Bill
would make schools drop discriminatory mascots (03/18/99 - dead link) "During a Capitol news conference, Boyle listed 40 school districts -- including the Mukwonago School District -- that he said had discriminatory American Indian logos, mascots or nicknames. "Rep. Steve Nass (R-Whitewater), who represents Mukwonago and Milton, which also was on Boyle's list, immediately denounced Boyle's proposal. "This bill would make political correctness the new standard for discrimination," Nass said. Nass said that at his news conference Boyle had labeled the use of American Indian mascots, nicknames and logos as "ignorant." He demanded that Boyle apologize. "The people of Mukwonago and Milton are hard-working, decent people and are certainly not ignorant or racist," Nass said in a statement sent to Boyle. "Under Boyle's proposed legislation, a resident of a school district could file a complaint with the state objecting to the district's use of a nickname, mascot or logo. The state superintendent of schools then would be required to hold a hearing on the complaint.
"The burden for proving that a district's nickname, mascot or logo was not
discriminatory and did not promote pupil harassment or stereotyping would fall to the
school board. Under current law, a resident of a school district may file a
complaint with the state Department of Public Instruction charging that a mascot, nickname
or logo is discriminatory. DPI conducts an investigation and makes a
decision." (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 03/18/99, by Amy Rinard and Betsy
Thatcher)
Wisconsin (Milwaukee): White Students Not Allowed Same School Choices as
Minorities (no link) END of Wisconsin - Racial Quotas in Education |
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