Since Texas schools, especially in poor districts, tend to be highly ethnically segregated, that boosts the admissions of black and Latino students to 21%.

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The authorities' unstated fear was that disaffected students might find natural allies in poor districts nearby, many of whose inhabitants, especially the unemployed, have been hit just as hard as the students by the economic disaster.

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