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The ruling will not affect the bulk of admissions already offered for the exam schools for September, because the parents group had already said it would not fight those. US District Court Judge William Young did not grant the group s request to re-open the case entirely; the matter now goes to the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, which has the power to have him re-open the case.
During a hearing on the case today, Young also said that even if the case is re-opened, his decision today does not mean he might still find that the School Committee did nothing racially biased in approving an exam-free admissions policy, but he said he simply could not let an opinion stand that was not based on facts, in this case, an assertion by the city that an eight-page transcript of School Committee text messages was accurate, when it wasn t.
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Professor emeritus was founding chair of UCLA’s environmental health sciences department
UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
Dr. William Hinds
May 24, 2021
William Hinds, professor emeritus of the department of environmental health sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, died of pulmonary fibrosis at his Alamo, California, home on May 14. He was 82.
Hinds was the first chair of the environmental health sciences department after the school’s departmentalization in 1989 and served until 1991. He became principal investigator and director of the NIOSH Southern California Education and Research Center in 2000 and served in that role until his retirement in 2009.
In addition, Hinds was the program director of the UCLA Industrial Hygiene Program from 1982 to his retirement in 2009. And he co-directed the UCLA component of the NIEHS Southern California Environmental Health Center with colleague John Froines. Hinds was also a member of the UCLA EPA Particle Center,
Changes in admission rules for Boston exam schools boosted diversity of accepted students
By James Vaznis Globe Staff,Updated May 7, 2021, 9:00 p.m.
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A temporary change in the admissions criteria for Bostonâs exam schools increased the diversity of the accepted applicants, particularly boosting the percentages of Black, Latino, and low-income students, according to data released Friday.
The data analysis confirms earlier projections that temporarily suspending the admissions exam and instead using grades and
ZIP codes would lead to a more diverse selection of applicants and lower the portion of
white and Asian students receiving admission offers.