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Along with sobering new findings on Teach for America and the effect of smaller class sizes, the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association in New York City produced a modest insurgency against Mayor Bloomberg that has resulted in the release of a letter accusing him of supporting "racial fear" and "anti-Arab prejudice."
Thirty education professionals signed the single-spaced missive, including professors from at least 10 universities.
Their subject is Mr. Bloomberg's relationship with the founding principal of an Arabic-language school in Brooklyn, Debbie Almontaser, who resigned her position last summer but now is saying — in a lawsuit that is pending trial after several twists and turns — that she was forced out.