The Federal government has finally reached out to African American and Latino communities to be included in the Census. This will ensure that there are enough classrooms for all students, instead of portable classrooms in a school built just a few years ago. If people are afraid of being included in the Census, they will be ignored when planning for schools and other government services. Another petition wants to ban race and ethnicity from the Census and this will make these poor, mutli-ethnic communities even poorer simply because they are not counted among the American population. I've seen those portable classrooms behind a new school. No-one knew the African American population, so the school was too small for the community that attended it.



