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Two Arizona State University students who were reprimanded after a viral video showed them confronting White students studying in a campus multicultural center last year have accused the school of "openly" discriminating against them. "Dear White People, A.K.A. ASU — You openly discriminated against us on November 16 when you handed down your decision from your racially biased investigation," the students, Mastaani Qureshi and Sarra Tekola, said in a more than nine-minute video posted to social media last week. ... ...ASU gave both students a warning and asked them to write about how to deal with similar situations and "facilitate...

If Gov.-elect Jerry Brown proposes tax measures to voters next year as part of a package to resolve California's budget deficit, he may find no greater ally than David Sanchez, president of the California Teachers Association. The 325,000-member union spent millions helping the Democrat win. And Sanchez, weary of Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and recurring cuts to education, believes Brown will sign a budget that is "hopefully not as devastating as it has been the last four years." "I think we'll have more input, more opportunity to sit down and tell him just how tough things are in the classroom,"...