Wednesday, October 25, 2006

The password is...SEGREGATION.

(With humblest appy-polly loggies to the late Allen Ludden and crew.)

The New York Sun: Government Loosens Single-Sex Restrictions on Public Schools
Public schools districts nationwide will be able to offer more single-sex classes and extracurricular activities and open more single-sex schools under a federal regulation that will go into effect this November. In an announcement yesterday, U.S. Secretary of Education, Margaret Spellings, said final Title IX single-sex regulations would loosen 30-year-old restrictions on single-sex education...

Fort Worth Star-Telegram: Segregation entrenched among Masons in South
White-controlled Grand Lodges in 12 states, including Texas, do not officially recognize black Masons.

Victoria Advocate: Texas student helped integrate U.S. Army
Late in World War II, a severe shortage of combat troops forced the U.S. Army to rescind its policy of racial segregation. The Army began assigning African-American units to combat duty.

Frost Illustrated: Maryland faces education segregation suit
In a move that hails back to the education battles of the last century, a local coalition filed a lawsuit Oct. 5 in Baltimore Circuit Court, alleging the state of Maryland had not fulfilled its obligations under an agreement with the U.S. Department of Education to equitably fund a

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