Questions like these have remained unanswered, largely
because research in this area has focused almost exclusively on
urban and suburban children living in majority -
culture communities.
Responding to a comment by DeVos that she couldn't think of an ongoing civil rights issue that would warrant federal involvement, Lhamon, in an op - ed for The Hechinger Report, ran down the types of cases her office had worked on: a North Carolina University revoking a student's acceptance after discovering he had cerebral palsy; a segregated Alabama school district offering advanced courses at its high schools that served primarily white students, but not at the high school that served virtually all of its black students; California district employees ignoring sexual assault cases
because they considered them part of their Latino students» «
urban culture.»