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Lesson in Tolerance Seeks to Aid School


URL: http://www.jewishjournal.com/community_briefs/article/lesson_in_tolerance_seeks_to_aid_school_20060113/

This tour is no typical high school field trip, with its predictable mix of unruly, disinterested teenagers. These students are here mainly because their school, Jefferson High, became a flash point last year for fights between Latino and African American students. The overcrowded, underperforming campus in South Los Angeles was 92 percent Latino, 7.5 percent black and, seemingly on a handful of occasions, nearly 100 percent out of control.

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