From CNN:
California has joined other states in acting against a private school that claimed to award high school diplomas while teaching its immigrant students a curriculum riddled with errors, including the wrong years for World War II and the wrong number of states.
The California Alternative High School in Los Angeles targeted Hispanic immigrants, charging $450 to $1,450 for a 10-week course it said would lead to a valid diploma and help them get into college, find better jobs and get financial aid, California Attorney General Bill Lockyer said last week.
But the school’s certificate isn’t recognized as a high school diploma, Lockyer said, and school officials ignored a previous court order that banned them from telling consumers it was.
Lockyer said the curriculum consisted of a slim workbook riddled with errors, including:
- The United States has 53 states but the “flag has not yet been updated to reflect the addition of the last three states” — Hawaii, Alaska and Puerto Rico.
- World War II began in 1938 and ended in 1942.
- There are two houses of Congress — the Senate and the House, and “one is for Democrats and the other is for the Republicans, respectively.”
Link via Political Animal.
A company in Portland sells franchises for cleaning companies to immigrants. They have to buy all their supplies and can only get clients through the franchise. These poor people end up busting their asses for next to nothing, or actually even end up owing money for the right to clean some office.
The Republican-controlled legislature doesn’t give a rat’s ass about it.