The Buffalo Public School District says it wants to end racial and gender-based inequalities and boost academic achievement by creating single-gender schools.
"If Chris Belter was not a white defendant from a rich and influential family, it is my belief he would surely have been sentenced to prison." That was what lawyer Steven M Cohen said on Tuesday when his client's rapist Christopher Belter Jr, 20,.
A $2.5 million donation was announced recently by Buffalo, N.Y. s Canisius High School for the building of its new Madden Center for Global Learning. The facility will be located at the Delaware Avenue campus and is the largest in the college prep school s "Rich Tradition Bold Vision" capital campaign, one that is now approaching $20 million.