BOSTON – Mayor Marty Walsh will get a break from the clouds that have formed over City Hall as a result of an ongoing investigation into "union-related extortion" thanks to a White House invitation to a conference on gun violence Tuesday.
Walsh and Boston Police Commissioner William Evans will both travel to Washington for a State and Local Gun Violence Prevention Convening Tuesday morning. Walsh will speak to the assembled group from all 50 states during an afternoon session at the White House featuring remarks from Vice President Joe Biden, according to a statement from the mayor's press staff.
A coalition of over 100 Asian-American groups is filing an administrative complaint with the United States Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights against three Ivy League schools, accusing them of illegally discriminating against Asians in admissions.
The complaint against Yale University, Brown University, and Dartmouth College is similar to one filed last year against Harvard University (which was dismissed in favor of a lawsuit against the school). The three schools are accused of placing a quota on Asian students that causes them to have extremely low admission rates for them.
