public schools
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New York City’s Afrocentric Schools Get More Love as Segregation Increases Nationwide
As school districts across the country grapple with deepening segregation, Afrocentric schools in Brooklyn, N.Y., are drawing more interest from parents and educators alike. In a story published by the New York Times last week, reporter Eliza Shapiro spoke to the teachers, administrators, and parents of students enrolled in the “half-dozen or so” city schools…
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Trump Can’t Find Money for the Wall. How About for Some Schools?
One of President Donald Trump’s most egregious lies during campaign 2016 was that he would build a wall protecting America from “illegal immigration,” then would get the Mexican government to pay for it. It’s not clear if Trump was watching Fox News, Pacific Rim or Attack on Titan when he came up with the wall…
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Betsy DeVos, Trump’s Education Pick, Shouldn’t Be Anywhere Near Our Children
Betsy DeVos is a longtime billionaire philanthropist, a champion of allowing religion in schools and a charter school board member who was picked by President-elect Donald Trump as his nominee for secretary of education. She has never worked in a school or been in the field of education before, and while she has considerable money…
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Black Folk Hate White Tears and Blatant Racism More Than Charter Schools
To the chagrin of charter advocates, on Friday the national board of the NAACP ratified an earlier resolution (pdf) that called for a moratorium on charter schools. Given the ample sources of opposition to charter schools, as well as mixed results, we should only be surprised that it’s taken this long for a major black civil…
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Nationwide School 'Walk-ins' Organized to Demand Educational Justice for Black and Brown Communities
On Thursday the union-affiliated Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools organized “walk-ins” in 200 cities and 2,000 public schools in black and brown communities to fight against “the long-standing and systematic underfunding of their public schools,” AROS said in a press release. Hundreds of affiliated parent, education and student groups rallied behind a six-point platform, which includes: a call for the…
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DeRay Mckesson Named Interim Head of Human Capital for Baltimore City Public Schools
Black Lives Matter activist and former Baltimore mayoral candidate DeRay Mckesson will be starting a new job leading the city’s office of human capital for Baltimore City Public Schools, the Baltimore Sun reports. According to the report, incoming schools CEO Sonja Santelises on Tuesday named Mckesson interim chief human capital officer, the second and most…