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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.
… adviser Dr. Scott Atlas. Among African Americans, 46 percent of excess deaths …
A Florida school has banned a fictional book about a Black boy who is killed by a white officer.
The Houston Independent School District, in partnership with the Houston Food Bank, is hosting mass community food distributions on Fridays in August at NRG Stadium. HISD Nutrition Services staff are expected to distribute 5,000 family food packages as well as 5,000 student meal packages. The family food packages will have up to 60 pounds of […]
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A Black Texas high school principal is speaking up after he said he has been wrongfully accused by parents of perpetuating racism when in fact, he says he's the one who has been a victim of bigotry. Colleyville Heritage High School Principal James Whitfield said some parents have accused him of teaching critical race theory and teaching students that white people are inherently racist, NBC 5 reported . Whitfield and the Grapevine-Colleyville Independent School District have both denied the allegations. In 2019, while he was a principal at Colleyville Heritage Middle School, a parent complained to the school district about an image of Whitfield and his wife about to kiss on his personal Facebook page. His supervisor contacted him and told him to check the internet, where he saw the photo reposted. \"I look at the picture, and I look at the words above it, and it says, 'Is this the Dr. Whitfield we want leading our schools?' I showed it to my wife, who immediately begins to well up...
A Virginia-based middle school has been renamed after NASA trailblazer Katherine Johnson.
By Stephen Magagnini | OBSERVER Editor-in-Chief Elk Grove prides itself on diversity and inclusion, so when its school district learned it led the state in Black suspensions in 2018-2019, administrators […]
The post Elk Grove Schools Try To Address Black Suspensions appeared first on The Sacramento Observer.
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 by
Photo credits: BES.org The halls are clear, and the pupils are abode. Headteacher Ty Anthony Davis (pictured) is at an institution announcing a morn flock with the crew at Vox Collegiate – a private institute located in South L.A. “The state still hasn’t decided what grading will look like for this,” Davis said to the […]
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I’m writing the attached letter (below) to the school district and sharing it publicly to express my disappointment and concerns over what appears to be the continuation of such immoral and racist patterns and practices toward Black Males in this and other systems.
Set against the backdrop of some of the most powerful images and examples of violence against the black community and African-American males in particular, this is the time to converse frankly about what you are going to do about the near complete lack of African-American male leadership within the school district and acknowledge what I believe is the continued focus on removing and demoting those that remain.
Under Dr. Larry Nyland, African American staff members were encouraged by his willingness to meet with African-American male leadership, both within the school district administration and within the district at-large.
So when an unfounded accusation of sexual harassment against an African-American man by a white woman was lodged, the school district just buckled and paid $500,000 to make the situation go away?
At the same time, when that same African-American man asked for justice, the school district has to pay and waste thousands of dollars in legal defense to defend its position?
bhamcityschools.org With local rates of COVID-19 spread now at moderate levels, teachers and staff in Birmingham City Schools will return to in-person work on Monday, Oct. 26, Superintendent Dr. Mark Sullivan announced Tuesday. Two weeks later, on Nov. 9, pre-K through 8th- grade students, along with students with low-incidence special needs, will return to classrooms. […]
Texas State Teachers Association President Noel Candelaria issued the following statement on school openings:
“When schools are reopened, the governor and the Texas Education Agency must require, among other things, that all students, employees and anyone visiting a school have a mask available and be given temperature checks and other observations for COVID-19 symptoms before entering.”
Now, he seems to be in a big hurry to reopen schools, putting the health and safety of millions of Texas school children, educators and their families and communities at risk.
Teachers and other school employees need to be directly involved in planning for the safe reopening of school facilities.
“When schools are reopened, the governor and the Texas Education Agency must require, among other things, that all students, employees and anyone visiting a school have a mask available and be given temperature checks and other observations for COVID-19 symptoms before entering.
“Guided by the recommendations of epidemiologists and other health care experts, the Texas State Teachers Association has developed a list of safety standards that should be required of every school and school district.
The first letter, drafted by Clyde Merriwether, a prominent member of the African American community, questions the lack of African American males in senior leadership roles and directly asks Seattle Public Schools Superintendent Denise Juneau, “What you are going to do about the near complete lack of African-American male leadership within the school district and acknowledge what I believe is the continued focus on removing and demoting those that remain?”
Given the recent and historic emphasis on inclusion and Black male involvement in education across the country, and here in the Northwest, it is shocking for many to hear that a school district located in a city that prides itself on diversity currently has no African American males in senior leadership positions.
In addition to Merriwether’s letter, a letter drafted by Members of the Black Leadership Team at Leschi Elementary School, the Racial Equity Team & SEA Union Representatives regarding the district’s “decision to abruptly remove” Principal Lisa Moland has also added fuel to the fire.
Moland, an African American woman who was a first year principal at Leschi, was informed on March 27, when Seattle Public School buildings were closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, that she was no longer going to be principal at Leschi, and, according to reports, neither she, her staff nor members of the Leschi Elementary School community were provided with a proper explanation as to why she was removed.
“Leschi Elementary, a school situated in an historically Black neighborhood, has already experienced an abrupt removal of a Black, woman principal,” read the letter dated May 2, 2020 to Seattle Public Schools Superintendent Denise Juneau, the school board and other SPS administrators.
As the new school year starts many students have the usual back-to-school anxiety: what to wear for the first day of school, will classes be easy or hard, will they remember their teachers’ names, and how will their relationships with friends grow and continue. With this novel distance learning environment, many students are worried about […]
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[News24Wire] As darkness falls, a group of women emerge from the shadows, ready to ply their trade near the Roodepoort Magistrate's Court.
(AP) - 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 […]
Houston Independent’s School District’s former chief operating officer took kickbacks from a landscaping contractor over a series of projects the landscaper never performed, according to court documents. A federal civil asset forfeiture complaint filed Friday alleged that HISD COO Brian Busby conspired to pay an unidentified landscaping contractor for services at the school district that […]
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LOS ANGELES — Despite vocal public calls for defunding, the Los Angeles Unified School District school board rejected a proposal that would have slashed 90% of the School Police Department’s budget by 2024.
The proposal by board member Monica Garcia called for the School Police budget to be reduced by 50% in the 2021-22 fiscal year, then 75% the next year and 90% the following year, with funds redirected to the “highest need schools in support of African-American students.”
Board member Scott Schmerelson echoed that sentiment, saying public safety on school campuses does need rethinking, but he could not support a mass defunding of the school police.
The other side of the emotionally charged argument included many parents and some teachers, as well as several school police officers and students involved in the Police Explorers program.
LAUSD police — who are not part of the Los Angeles Police Department — responded to more than 100,000 emergency calls last year, including threats of mass shootings and bombs at schools, as well as robberies, sexual assaults, burglaries and other serious crimes, advocates told the board.
