Many of the POC in Texas are immigrants, many undocumented, many first generation, many with limited English proficiency. Which isn't to say that there's no community organizing, but yeah, a lot of them are in survival mode. Also, schools here tend to be heavily segregated (and of course funded by property tax) so the schools with the worst funding, resources, and textbooks are also the ones with the least power and the least access to outside materials, and so the most dependent on the shitty textbooks and state funding. They're also the ones most likely to get shut down because of test scores and the ones with the highest teacher turnover. It's really bad. I mean, it's really, really bad.
I am going to walk to UT tomorrow and talk to some people. There's an institute of Latin American studies and an Hispanic law initiative of some kind, I think, so they may be able to suggest a course of action.
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Date: 2010-01-08 01:35 am (UTC)I am going to walk to UT tomorrow and talk to some people. There's an institute of Latin American studies and an Hispanic law initiative of some kind, I think, so they may be able to suggest a course of action.