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1. Dallas School Board

From member station KERA in Dallas, Texas, Bill Zeeble reports on continuing racial tensions regarding the Dallas school board. Some African-American students and school officials are protesting the composition of a white majority school board. The student population is 90-percent black and hispanic. Tensions escalated when the board chose its first female and hispanic superintendent.

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