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There’s no accusation that Triece mistreated or otherwise engaged in inappropriate behavior that could put kids in danger. Despite volunteering at her children's school for five years, Triece has been told she is no longer welcome.
Nationwide protests have taken place since October 7 despite the disbanding of the controversial Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) police unit.
The demonstrators have been accused of attacking police stations and personnel.
The rallies which are mostly attended by young people have become avenues to vent against corruption and unemployment.
Rights groups say at least 15 people have been killed the demonstrations began in early October.
In this week’s Defender… The toughness and tenacity of Dr. Grenita Lathan, former interim Supt. of HISD, is what got the school district through Hurricane Harvey, the COVID-19 pandemic, the Texas Winter Storm and getting Black schools back on track.In an EXCLUSIVE exit interview with the new Defender Education Reporter Laura Oyeneho, Dr. Lathan shows […]
On Sunday evening, Mariah Carey said farewell to spooky season and hello to the holidays bringing us all some much needed cheer. The Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter posted a clip of […]
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The Cincinnati Public Schools (CPS) has agreed to a $3 million settlement with the family of an eight-year-old boy who committed suicide in 2017 after he was bullied on multiple occasions while he was enrolled at the Carson Elementary School. Besides the monetary settlement with the family of Gabriel Taye, the school district has also...
With nearly $800 million in state and federal funds targeted for local use to address learning loss and COVID-19 challenges, a public awareness campaign dubbed Opportunity 901 was rolled out on Wednesday. The Memphis Education Fund is spearheading the effort, along with local business, community and nonprofit leaders. “A major opportunity now exists for our […]
Teachers in Los Angeles Unified have ratified a tentative agreement with the school district, paving the way for the nation’s second largest K-12 system to fully reopen campuses for the upcoming academic year. Ninety-four percent of the teachers, counselors, librarians, school nurses and other certificated employees who voted supported the deal, the union announced late […]
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THE MICHIGAN CIVIL RIGHTS INITIATIVE (MCRI), PROPOSAL 2, AMENDMENT TO THE STATE CONSTITUTION (2006)
ARTICLE I, SECTION 26: Civil Rights.
1. The University of Michigan, Michigan State University, Wayne State University, and any other public college or university, community college, or school district shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting.
2. The state shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting.
3. For the purposes of this section state includes, but is not necessarily limited to, the state itself, any city, county, any public college, university, or community college, school district, or other political subdivision or governmental instrumentality of or within the State of Michigan not included in sub-section 1.
4. This section does not prohibit action that must be taken to establish or maintain eligibility for any federal program, if ineligibility would result in a loss of federal funds to the state.
5. Nothing in this section shall be interpreted as prohibiting bona fide qualifications based on sex that are reasonably necessary to the normal operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting.
6. The remedies available for violations of this section shall be the same, regardless of the injured partys race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin, as are otherwise available for violations of Michigan anti-discrimination law.
7. This section shall be self-executing. If any part or parts of this section are found to be in conflict with the United States Constitution or federal law, the section shall be implemented to the maximum extent that the United States Constitution and federal law
The Gary Community School Corporation is committed to making food available to students every Monday through the end of summer 2020.
GCSC will distribute food items to youth ages 18 and younger Monday, May 18th from 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Registration has begun for summer school, which starts June 8th.
It’s a great way to keep your child engaged during the summer months, and the food distribution will also continue throughout the summer.
During Monday’s food distribution, a fleet of buses will be dispatched to locations across the city and will stay in these locations for 45-minute increments or until food items are exhausted.
Food items will be handed out by district employees and representatives from food vendor Sodexo Magic.
In 2000 Kathleen Brose led an organization called Parents Involved in Community Schools which filed a lawsuit against the Seattle School District, challenging its tie-breaker rule in Seattle Public Schools which gave preference to racial minorities in school assignments when all else was equal. The lawsuit eventually reached the U.S. Supreme Court which in June 2007 ruled in favor of Parents Involved. In the following article Brose describes the origins of the lawsuit and her attitude toward the half century struggle to integrate Seattles schools in light of that ruling. A link to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling appears at the end of this article.
In late June, 2007, I wrote the following for a Seattle Times newspaper opinion piece shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of Parents Involved in Community Schools:
In 2000, Parents Involved in Community Schools, a nonprofit organization made up of diverse parents and community members sued the Seattle School District to stop discrimination against our children.
We told the School District that the use of the race of a student to decide to assign our ninth-graders to a high school was illegal, unconstitutional, immoral and just plain wrong.
Our children were denied entrance to certain high schools because of their skin color, and both nonwhite and white children were affected by this racist policy.
The Seattle schools had never been segregated and were already integrated. The use of the racial tie-breaker was not necessary. Our children just wanted to attend school along with their peers and to maintain friendships.
It is difficult enough being a teenager in our fast-paced world without being forced to go to a school you don’t want to go to, just because you have the “wrong” skin color. Our children are faced with so many more choices at an early age, which makes parenting much more difficult today than a generation ago. When you are a single parent, or a parent without a car, and your child is going to a school that is up to two hours away
It is difficult enough being a teenager in our fast-paced world without being forced to go to a school you don’t want to go to, just because you have the “wrong” skin color. Our children are faced with so many more choices at an early age, which makes parenting much more difficult today than a generation ago. When you are a single parent, or a parent without a car, and your child is going to a school that is up to two hours away by
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Missi Magness wanted her children back in school. The parent of a first-grader and a sixth-grader who attend schools on Indianapolis’ southeast side struggled trying to oversee her children’s schooling while working from home this spring. “They need the structure, they need the socialization, they just need to go,” said Magness. “‘I love you, but […]
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With failing grades and poor graduation rates, Indiana’s Distressed Unit Appeals Board last week voted 4-1 to give MGT Consulting a two-year contract to manage Gary’s state-controlled school district.
DUAB member Tracy Brown was the only official who voted against the two-year contract proposal, because of MGT’s failure to achieve academic improvement among students in the Gary school district.
She disagreed with state School Superintendent Jennifer McCormick’s view that MGT benefitted from three years in Gary.
In 2017, MGT was chosen over several private management companies to take over the school district and reduce its debts totaling over $100 million.
Last month, the Crusader published a story that showed that academic achievement in the Gary school district plummeted under MGT’s leadership.
When news came that the Minneapolis Public Schools proposed to cut ties with their local police force, local lawyer Tiffany Sizemore saw an opportunity for kids across the Pittsburgh Public Schools district.
So, Sizemore, who leads the Juvenile Defender Clinic at Duquesne University, alongside Jeff Shook, an associate professor of social work at the University of Pittsburgh, penned an open call for Pittsburgh Public Schools to stop using police to manage children in their schools.
In the wake of the death of George Floyd, a Minneapolis man who died May 25 after a police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes, Minneapolis Public Schools terminated its contract with the Minneapolis Police Department in a unanimous school board vote in early June.
Pittsburgh Public Schools [PPS] has its own police force of about 20 officers, empowered to make arrests, though they aren’t authorized to carry firearms.
The school district does not formally have an agreement with the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police that establishes how the departments coordinate, though steps were taken last year to formalize the roles.
INGLEWOOD — Parents are rallying to save Warren Lane Elementary School in Morningside Park, after learning the Inglewood Unified School District’s school board passed a resolution on June 12 to close the school because of declining enrollment and budget cuts.
“Inglewood Unified School District has faced so many challenges,” county administrator Erika Torres said as she addressed concerned parents and community members during a virtual town hall meeting June 11.
“We continue to see declining enrollment at Warren Lane (every) year since 2012,” said Torres appointed by the Los Angeles County Office of Education to manage the Inglewood Unified School District.
According to the district’s enrollment data, 316 students attended Lane Elementary during the 2015-16 school year.
Inglewood school board President D’Artagnan Scorza explained why closing Lane Elementary is in the best interest of the district.
Malden is known as a great city — the fourth most diverse in Massachusetts. Yet, in a school system with kids from many different cultures, some have never had a BIPOC educator.
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Just a few weeks in 2020 have made for quite a bit of learning for Missy Elliott when it comes to Black history, and she now questions why some of those lessons weren’t covered during her days in school.
The lack of Black history being taught in U.S. schools has been a constant complaint among teachers and Black students through the years.
Elliott’s tweets sparked an online discussion with people who said they weren’t taught much about Black history in school either.
“I learned about Black Wall Street all because of DL Hugley breakfast club interview,” someone wrote in response to Elliott’s message.
“That’s why voting for people who will teach Black history on your school board is so important,” wrote someone else.
In Minneapolis, where protests exploded after a police officer killed local resident George Floyd, the school board voted Tuesday evening in favor of a resolution to cut ties with the police department.
“Hopefully this can be a small step towards the dramatic changes that are needed in our city and the past few years, serious conversations surrounding the impact of police in schools have occurred after high-profile incidents of officers assaulting children, like when a police officer was recorded knocking down a student and dragging her at Spring Valley High School in South Carolina.
In Denver, the power of school police officers is already regulated by the district: These cops are not allowed to handcuff students in elementary school.
In a statement before Tuesday’s vote, Deputy Chief Erick Fors of the Minneapolis Police Department said that the relationships the department has built in schools “were impactful not only for the students and staff, but for the officers who had a calling to work with our youth through mentorship and engagement.”
Janaan Ahmed, a 17-year-old recent graduate of Minneapolis Public Schools, said that student activists have made clear their disdain for constant policing at school and that they have been questioning why it took another police killing for the issue of school cops to gain momentum in the district.
As the 2013 presidential election approached, many feared a repeat of the deadly violence that plagued the disputed 2007 race and left about 1,300 dead. Those fears did not play out in the tight race between top contenders Prime Minister Odinga and Uhuru Kenyatta, the richest man in the country and the son of Kenyas first president. In the March election, Kenyatta won 50.07% of the vote to Odingas 43.7%, narrowly enough to avoid a runoff. Kenyatta and his deputy president, William Ruto, were two of four men charged by the International Criminal Court in 2012 with crimes against humanity for their roles in the violence that erupted after the 2007 elections.
In Dec. 2013, the International Criminal Court case against President Uhuru Kenyatta experienced a severe blow when the prosecution revealed that they had lost two key witnesses. One witness had given false evidence and another was no longer willing to testify. Fatou Bensouda, the prosecutor, said that she needed more time to prepare new evidence. After months of delays, Kenyatta appeared in court in early October 2014 when judges held hearings on how to proceed with the case. Kenyatta is accused of obstructing the ICCs investigation into the violence. He is the first sitting head of state to be brought before the International Criminal Court in The Hague. The ICC dropped the charges against Kenyatta in December 2014, citing a lack of evidence. Bensouda accused the government of obstructing the investigation. The trial of Vice President William Ruto will continue.
Every kindergarten teacher at a school in San Antonio, Texas has tested positive for COVID-19, and the students' parents are
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NBA Hall of Famer Charles Barkley donated $1,000 to each Leeds City Schools employee. On Tuesday, the school district announced Barkley’s gift to his high school alma mater. Over $200,000…
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Even during the state of emergency, at dusk, the sex workers come out parading as they search for clients
\tIt is risky but they say they are aware of the disease and are taking preventive measures
\t“We wash our hands with soap and water and we always wear a mask.
While the Province has already confirmed cases of the new Coronavirus, two of them are sex workers – a Mozambican and a foreigner
\t“Right now our business is not good because of the Coronavirus, all the stands are closed, so these men don’t come here.
The mayor of Tete, César de Carvalho, is aware of the problem combined with illegal activity and so many foreign prostitutes.
“We’re going to have to get started all together, the immigration services, the police, and the municipality to control foreign women but it is not easy, it is not something that begins today and will end tomorrow.
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\tBesides the city of Tete, where the activity also takes place in broad daylight, the same business buzzes in the city of Moatize which is 21 kilometers from the provincial capital.
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have found that nearly 300,000 more people in the United States died from late January to early October this year than the average number of people who died in recent years. Just two-thirds of those deaths were counted as Covid-19 fatalities, highlighting how […]
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By COLLIN BINKLEY President Donald Trump launched an all-out effort pressing state and local officials to reopen schools this fall, arguing that some are keeping schools closed not because of the risks from the coronavirus pandemic but for political reasons. “They think it’s going to be good for them politically, so they keep the schools []
A group of sex workers in Botswana recently threatened to expose high-profile clients if their demands for better treatment by the government and local communities ...
A South Carolina elementary school teacher died earlier this week, mere days after the school district she worked with was notified that she had tested positive for COVID-19. According to […]
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