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Presidential candidate, will hurd, nice to see you in person. lets start with the supreme courts decision. he said, quote, individuals are the sum of their unique experiences, challenges and accomplishments. what matters is not the barrieris that face and how they choose to confront them and their race is not to blame for anything good or bad that happens in their life and ketanji brown jackson said deeming race irrell vent in law does not make it so in life. race-linked barriers are gone, race ...

Stay in the classroom after a couple of years, i think £2400. the government has done this for years but teachers seem to be leaving, so why do you think it would work? this week i am why do you think it would work? tt 3 week i am setting out labours mission around education and how we break down barriers that exist for young people. iwant break down barriers that exist for young people. i want to ensure background does not limit you go ting on. we need to make sure we have excellent teachers i...

Way in which we think about issues, but the second piece is, our institutions will have to step up. i know the colleges here in massachusetts are looking to do just that, forming a coalition to come together to think about all the ways in which we could remove barriers to entry, ways in which we need to invest into the k-12 education system, especially for students of color, and address the inequities that exist there, look at the financial aid packages and other ways in which other students or ...

Most people know that is not the case. last week, race neutral politics that the biden administration will come up with. the members of the caucus are working hard with the white house in that regard. unless we have a way to do and to really look at social economic status in terms of a criteria that will allow special consideration for admissions, and unless we are able to push back and challenge colleges and universities all over the country to do more and to be more and to find a way to get ar...

Poorer. like, straight-up, between yesterday and today! >> you know, crass, this is designed to increase inequality, and then to call it inequality. thats exactly what its designed to do. it is designed to put americans in their place, and you say that these rights and access pathways are reserved for the most elite. when you take the two decisions together, when you take together the affirmative action decision yesterday, and then this student loan debt decision today, this is really a blow to ...

Pathways rule which places common sense conditions on asylum eligibility. so thats what they say your quick response? >> as i mentioned they have no choice but have to enforce the law enforcement for the at them once immigrants make it across the room they are technically in the united states have to process them and allow them into the country. but of course thats what we are going to do were going to continue to make a more challenging speed will add more wire more barriers along the area to p...

Block off the streets, you know, its such a busy place, so its pretty cool. >> reporter: today drivers practiced and qualified for tomorrows main event, with a separate race running right now. both races airing on nbc universal networks. >> going through there side by side. >> reporter: nascar says this is a 2.2 mile track including 90 degree turns. >> hard contact, head into the wall there. >> reporter: forcing drivers to shift gears for a new narrow kind of course. >> theres much less room for...

Front of them early on. also investments and partnerships with tribal nations and indigenous communities, and particularly the investment part because many of the students in these communities not only are wanting to come to college, but they want to take what theyre learning in college, particularly in those health fields, and bring that information back into their communities to improve their community overall. also looking at direct admission programs. this is one way to eliminate barriers fo...

Classrooms and libraries. the removal of race conscious admissions policies and that striking down of president bidens student loan forgiveness program, theyre adding another threat to diversity and education, and challenges for administrators, as justice ketanji brown jackson wrote in her dissent, quote, deeming raced irrelevant in law does not make it so in life. although former race linked legal barriers are gone, race still matters to the lived experiences of all americans in many ways, and ...

Systemic racial inequality by increasing access to high education for underrepresented minorities and ethnic groups who face systemic barriers in our society and also admissions criteria that capture and magnify the racial bias. and the courts decision today is really a devastating blow to those efforts. >> debra, affirmative action was already banned in several states including california and michigan, and as a result officials in schools in those states say their student bodies are less divers...