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  • Black Children Deserve the Stability That Neighborhood Schools Offer

    School closure is a tactic we don’t have to take. Under the new national education law, the Every Student Succeeds Act, states have been freed to employ strategies they deem fit just as long as they act on the bottom 5 percent. When we’re talking about improving urban districts, though, we always seem to land…

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    Andre Perry

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  • Democrats for Education Reform Seek to Empower Parents and Strengthen Black Communities

    In a piece entitled, “Democratic Political Infighting Over Education Harms Black Families,” which was published on The Root last month, Dr. Andre Perry claimed that our organization, Democrats for Education Reform, not only “attacked” Hillary Clinton—because our position on charter schools differs from that of the former secretary of state—but also that we have broken away…

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    The Root Staff

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  • Black Folks Don’t Need Education Reform; We Need a System We Can Call Our Own

    The scant mention of Democrats’ official platform on K-12 education on the main stage at the Democratic National Convention last week was clearly a political effort to distance the party from the fray. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has backed off many hallmarks of the accountability era that started with the passage of No Child Left…

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    Andre Perry

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