Title: "Conflict? What Conflict?/Hispanic leaders on DISD's payroll go mum about segregation at Preston Hollow"/Matt Pulle/[[February 1, 2007]]/ link

Also says that "part-time civil rights leader" Hector Flores is a full-time employee of the Dallas Independent School District.

Hector Flores isn't someone you'd expect to be apathetic about segregation. The immediate past national president of the League of United Latin American Citizens, Flores often serves as the voice of indignation on civil rights debates. In Farmers Branch, where the city council recently passed legislation making it harder for illegal immigrants to live and work, Flores told a reporter that "the Statue of Liberty must be crying right now."

But when it comes to Preston Hollow Elementary School, Flores turns to stone. In November, a federal court found the North Dallas school was segregating students, but neither Flores nor most of his LULAC colleagues have anything to say about the judge's harshly stated ruling. In fact, Flores hadn't even read it. "I have other things to do in the community, like Farmers Branch," he says.

...So what could Flores have to worry about that's more vexing than segregation? How about his job? The part-time civil rights leader is a full-time employee of Dallas Independent School District, serving as its director of personnel. Like many local Hispanic leaders who either work for the district or have close ties to those who do, Flores finds himself in a tricky spot. Making their dilemma messier still is the fact that Hispanics dominate the leadership at DISD, starting with Superintendent Michael Hinojosa.

...The Latino parents at Preston Hollow didn't have much luck with LULAC either. Joe Campos, who at the time was the executive manager for the national office of LULAC, serving as Hector Flores' chief of staff, met with Gonzalez and Santamaria and determined they merely wanted the principal fired. He later admitted that he jumped to conclusions.

...Even after the judge's ruling, local LULAC chapters largely remained silent. The local district director for LULAC, the otherwise vigilant Coty Rodriguez Anderson, has been practically invisible. Of course, Anderson has the same dilemma as her LULAC peers. She works as a school counselor for DISD...