Mira Nair, Alice Young, and Open Society Institute to Be Honored
Mira Nair, the internationally-acclaimed filmmaker and director of “Monsoon Wedding” and “Mississippi Masala;” Alice Young, partner at Kaye Scholer LLP and chair of the law firm’s Asia Practice; and Open Society Institute, the foundat...
What is Pushout?
Non-membering (sometimes called pushout) is when a school drops a student from its attendance rolls.
In 2000-2001, 12.5% of Asian students dropped (or were pushed) out in Lowell, compared to 12.4% of Hispanics, 9.3% of African Americans, and only 6.4% of whites.
High schools migh...
Special Registration, a part of the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System (NSEERS), and the 30-Day Port of Entry registration program, is described and analyzed in a new AALDEF report entitled, Special Registration: Discrimination and Xenophobia in Government Policy.
From November 2002 t...
New York, NY—The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), a New York-based civil rights organization, praised the United States Supreme Court decision on June 23rd in Grutter v. Bollinger, which upheld the race-conscious affirmative action policy of Michigan Law School.
“This decis...
Because of the 2000 Presidential election debacle in Florida and similar problems in the 2002 midterm elections, Congress passed the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) last December. This new law will make significant changes to voting across the country. This review by the Asian American Legal Defense an...
New York, NY—Comedian Margaret Cho and Bhairavi Desai of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance were honored at the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund’s Annual Lunar New Year Celebration on Thursday, February 13, 2003, at PIER SIXTY, Chelsea Piers, in New York City. Ms. Cho and Ms. Desai re...
