District Cancels Unity Day Event
Amid the ethnically tinged firestorm surrounding Supt. Ruben Zacarias and the school board, the Los Angeles Unified School District postponed a Multicultural Unity Day Celebration on Wednesday.
Staff members were still blowing up balloons for the annual event when Human Relations Education Commission Director Edward Negrete issued an interoffice correspondence explaining that he had no choice given the “climate of uneasiness, uncertainty.”
It was, he added, “a climate not conducive for promoting such an important concept as unity.”
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