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Houston School District Officer Fired Over Distributing 'Ghetto Handbook' Saturday, October 27, 2007  HOUSTON —  A school district police officer suspended for creating and distributing a "Ghetto Handbook" has been fired.Gang investigator Roby Morris, 34, had worked for 11 years at the Houston Independent School District before being fired this week, according to an investigation report released Friday.Morris was placed on paid leave in August after school officials learned of his eight-page booklet subtitled "Wucha dun did now?"The booklet was given to other police officers at a May roll call and tells them learning the definitions in it will allow...

For decades, school districts have organized around a simple idea: Whatever you give to white students, give it to black students, too. Put both groups of students in the same schools. Expose them to the same teaching. If they struggle, give them the same help. In the Tampa Bay area and across the nation, this was how educators atoned for the long-ago sin of relegating black children to inferior schools. Now, in a class-action lawsuit that has Pinellas County's top educators on the defensive, the plaintiffs say the policy of equal access has failed the school district's 20,000 black students....

Why are Charlotte's black students suspended more often than whites? It's a hard-to-answer question, say Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools officials. But they want to look deeper, they say. An Observer investigation found black students were nearly four times more likely to be suspended than whites in the 2003-04 school year. Overall, CMS suspended 8 percent of white students, and 30 percent of black students. Such disparities also exist nationally and suggest a culture clash in schools, experts say. "It's a very difficult issue, and it's uncomfortable for folks," says assistant superintendent Susan Agruso. "Part of it may be related to culture. Part...

God Bless this man...he is torn up