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AALDEF Know Your Rights Flyer: High School Pushout and Massachusetts Law
What is Pushout? Non-membering (sometimes called pushout) is when a school drops a student from its attendance rolls. In 2000-2001, 12.5% of Asian students dropped (or were pushed) out in Lowell,…
AALDEF Applauds Supreme Court Affirmative Action Decision in _Grutter v. Bollinger_
New York, NY—The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), a New York-based civil rights organization, praised the United States Supreme Court decision on June 23rd in Grutter v.…
Asian Americans and Election Reform: An Update on the Help America Vote Act (HAVA)
Because of the 2000 Presidential election debacle in Florida and similar problems in the 2002 midterm elections, Congress passed the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) last December. This new law will make…
Margaret Cho and Bhairavi Desi Receive 2003 Justice in Action Awards
New York, NY—Comedian Margaret Cho and Bhairavi Desai of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance were honored at the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund’s Annual Lunar New Year Celebration on…
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