The NLC tour of factories and dormitories yielded little information from the workers, so the group set up a clandestine night meeting.

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Seizing on Mr Zacarias's Hispanic origins, a group of protesters declared the clandestine ouster meeting (although its secrecy followed the pattern set under Mr Zacarias) to be an act of racial disrespect in a district in which nearly 70% of the school population is Latino.

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