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by Dr. John H. Jackson, President & CEO, Schott Foundation
Despite the contrived false narrative of failing students and schools, the nation’s public school students are once again leading the nation to a more just society and a stronger democracy. During the civil rights movement of the 50’s and 60’s it was public school students walking out of schools, sitting at lunch counters, and marching on Washington that shaped the civil rights movement.
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Schott recently released a groundbreaking new report — measuring the level of supports provided by 10 cities to ensure their children have the opportunity to learn and succeed.
What makes the Loving Cities Index unique is that it reaches beyond schools to also measure vitally important community factors, including affordable housing, healthy food, mental health access, livable wages, and public transportation.
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NPR interviewed author Richard Rothstein on his new book, The Color of Law. The book examines the history of local, state and federal housing policies that mandated segregation as well as their continuing effects.
Due to the local nature of our public school system, segregation in housing only exacerbated segregation in schooling — which is why Schott highlighted the book in our new Loving Cities report.
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Clotilde Perez-Bode Dedecker, President & CEO of the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo:
"Our community’s current collaborative efforts to provide equitable opportunities for all are attracting the attention of national funders looking to invest in accelerating our work. Recently, the Schott Foundation for Public Education, a national education justice fund committed to equity and opportunity in public education, profiled Buffalo in its Loving Cities Index."
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Schools, like coal mines, are generational employers and, in Appalachia, labor struggles seem inherited, too. Who is leading one of the most significant grassroots labor movements of our time? Teachers who are the daughters and granddaughters of coal miners. They would like you to know they understand their history.
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