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Article: COLUMN: Listening to the injustice around us
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- November 5, 1999
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Julie Gilgoff
University Wire
11-05-1999
(Columbia Daily Spectator) (U-WIRE) NEW YORK -- About three weeks ago, Washington Heights resident Robert Jackson along with other New York City parents marched to city hall for the first day of a ground breaking court case. Jackson is one of the parents of city students who joined with 14 school districts in the "campaign for Fiscal Equity" to demand that the state provide a better public education system for their children. The campaign charges that the current system of funding for NYC schools violates the state constitution that entitles students to a "sound basic education," as well as the 1964 Civil Rights Act which prohibits discrimination in ...
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