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LA Times: “School rallies around dismissed Watts teacher deemed too ‘Afro-centric’”

Students and fellow educators are rallying behind a fired Jordan High School teacher they say was sacked for encouraging political activism among her students.

About 60 students rallied Wednesday at the Watts campus, while a colleague of the fired teacher said he and 15 other instructors planned to resign or transfer to other schools to protest the dismissal of Karen Salazar, a second-year English teacher.

(From Angry Brown Butch)

~ by Bq on June 30, 2008.