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EL CERRITO — Police are investigating claims that a group of students surrounded and stoned a middle school band teacher.
Tiffany Carrico, The Portola Middle School band teacher, was allegedly pushed to the ground, pelted with rocks and verbally assaulted by students at lunch time.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — The nation is becoming even more diverse: More than one third of its population belongs to a minority group, and Hispanics are the fastest-growing segment.
The U.S. Census Bureau reported Thursday that the minority population reached an estimated 104.6 million — or 34 percent of the nation’s total population — on July [...]

Nanette Asimov, Chronicle Staff Writer
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
One in five students dropped out of a California high school last year – about the same as the year before, state Superintendent Jack O’Connell announced Tuesday. The graduation rate also held at about 68 percent.
The news that little had changed – despite O’Connell’s calls for improvement and [...]

CNN) — Word that President Obama might pile comprehensive immigration reform onto his already-full plate reignited calls from some for an urgent overhaul and brought cries from others that the timing couldn’t be worse.
“It’s more important than ever to address immigration reform right now,” said Ian Haney Lopez, a professor of law at the University [...]

SAN DIEGO, California (CNN) — On the prickly subject of immigration raids, the judicial branch is moving in the right direction. And the executive branch is moving in all directions.
In a stunning rebuke of how the government has previously gone about prosecuting illegal immigrants, the Supreme Court this week unanimously ruled that a heavy-handed federal [...]