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New
Coalition: Quality Schools in Every Neighborhood A coalition of advocacy, civil rights and social justice organizations and parents has emerged in the debate over a new student assignment plan in Boston Public Schools. Kim Janey, one of the lead organizers of the new coalition and a former BPS parent, explains that the issue at stake is ensuring access to high quality schools for all Boston students. Given the city's history with desegregation in the 1970s, "the nation is watching to see if the city can once and for all break free of its ugly past or whether it will be doomed to repeat history by denying children of color access to quality educational opportunities." Read more> |
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Arkansas
Advocacy and Organizing Month! Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe has declared October to be Arkansas Advocacy & Organizing Month, and the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation has joined with grassroots organizing groups and advocacy organizations (many of whom we're proud to partner with in the Arkansas Opportunity to Learn Campaign) to celebrate the positive impact advocacy has on communities. Read more> |
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Winners,
Losers and Competitive Grants In a new report, the Alliance for Quality Education (one of our New York allies) criticizes the state's competitive grant program and says that by forcing schools to compete for funding rather than allocating that money to the schools that need it most, the state is creating a "system of education winners and losers" that denies struggling schools and their students a fair and substantive opportunity to learn. Read more> |
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It's
Our Time: The Empathy Gap for Girls of Color When Linda Charmaraman created the Wellesley Centers for Women project “Promoting Public Awareness of the Road to Educational Equity for Girls of Color,” her mission was to build a public forum to discuss the ongoing educational equity issues for girls of color in the Boston area. She traveled from Dorchester to Roxbury, from the superintendent offices of the Boston Public Schools to the Opportunity to Learn Education Summit in Washington, DC, and met with girls who were tired of negative stereotypes about their achievement capacities and the lack of attention paid to them by the district. Read more> |
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PA
Advocates Want Fairness in School Discipline In Allegheny County in western Pennsylvania, Black students are suspended at nearly 5 times the rate of their White peers and twice the rate of Black students around the country. At a forum hosted by the Education Law Center (ELC) and Education Voters of Pennsylvania (EVPA) on October 5th, advocates addressed the issue of school climate and the harsh discipline policies behind those dire statistics. They shared success stories and strategies that communities, organizations and school personnel are using to change their schools. Read more> |
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Separate
Remains Extremely Unequal A report from the
Civil Rights Project at the University of California Los
Angeles documents the dramatic resegregation of our
nation's schools in the past two decades. Students of
color face a "double segregation by both race and
poverty," and as a result, a disproportionate number of
students of color and low-income students are
increasingly denied access to high quality educational
resources and opportunities. Read
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