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Schools Fail Black Students, Why Are We Silent?

(The mission of the Black Community, Clergy and Labor Alliance (BCCLA) is to develop a Black united front, which has not happened on a broad or sustained manner since the civil rights era.  BCCLA’s education committee is meeting with LAUSD Superintendent Michelle King to help ensure Black students receive the attention and resources necessary for developing   their full potential.) In a previous column, Schools Fail Black Students, So Why Are We Silent? (Nov. 2008), I   described barriers in LAUSD that contributed to a failure of the district to properly educate Black students. Substantially, those same barriers exist today. They underscored,