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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.
Tim Scott's powerful response to Joe Biden's address to Congress has forced both Biden and Kamala Harris to reject a core belief of the BLM movement and the American left. Both the president and the vice president have now stated that the American people are not racist. Biden said this: No, I don’t think the American people are racist, but I think after 400 years, African-Americans have been left in
The San Diego Unified School District requested that their teachers attend a workshop on white privilege. Read More: Teacher brings... View Article
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The teenager accused of a shooting at an Arlington, Texas high school this week chose violence after being bullied, family
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The DeKalb County School District will continue preparing its road map for bringing students and teachers back to classrooms for the upcoming school year, district officials said after state officials announced guidance for K-12 school systems.
“The DeKalb County School District will now align its framework plan with the state’s guidance,” Superintendent Ramona Tyson said.
“The District appreciates the fact that (the Georgia Department of Education) recognizes local school districts need the authority and flexibility to meet varying complexities.”
Should the coronavirus’ spread be considered substantial when school is set to begin, for example, school buildings would close and be disinfected, with districts implementing distance learning and delivering meals to students.
Tyson said recently she was waiting for the state’s recovery guidance to consider it with other recommendations the district has taken from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and local health department officials.
Ashley Cobb is creating her own lane. She isn’t a blogger, she isn’t solely a sex educator. She is more of an middle person between a brands and consumers, her topic area just happens to be the realm of sex. A sex influencer, brands want to work with Ashley because she has the trust of people interested in sex.iOne Digital announces The Creative Class, a selection of innovators who've made great strides in 2020.
This is the path the Inglewood Unified School District (IUSD) took when it decided to close Warren Lane TK-7 Elementary School.
The day before the school board planned to officially approve closing Warren Lane, county administrator Erika Torres scheduled a Zoom meeting for one hour with the parents.
Dionne Faulk, school board Vice President and Trustee Area 1 representative where Warren Lane is located, listened quietly while Scorza excoriated her constituents.
A group called F.R.E.E – Fighters for the Right to Receive Equitable Education formed by teachers as well as Warren Lane parents, grandparents and neighbors is circulating a petition on Change.org – “Keep Warren Lane Elementary School Open.”
As a past President of the Inglewood Unified School District Board of Education, I want to apologize to parents and neighbors of Warren Lane for how the decision to close the school was handled.
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Murang'a Women Representative Sabina Chege has donated foodstuff to more than 100 commercial sex workers in the county leaving them joyous.
According to a post on her Facebook page, Ms Chege said the sex workers reached out to her for assistant.
\"The commercial sex workers through their chair Gaceri, as popularly known, reached out on me to support them with food, citing hard times during this Covid-19,\" Sabina tweeted.
According to the woman rep, they have agreed to look for long term solutions to ensure the commercial sex workers can provide for themselves and eventually quit prostitution.
\"We have agreed with them that I will find a long-lasting solution that will be putting food on their table with a promise of quitting that business.
[News24Wire] As darkness falls, a group of women emerge from the shadows, ready to ply their trade near the Roodepoort Magistrate's Court.
When the COVID-19 pandemic forced Alabama schools to close their traditional classrooms in March, Corey Jones said it hit his students in rural Greene County doubly hard.
“We’re one of the poorest school districts in the state, and most of our students don’t have computers or access to the internet,” said Jones, Greene County School System superintendent.
But thanks to the Alabama Power Foundation, Greene County students will soon have the technology they need to navigate their new virtual classroom.
The foundation provided a grant to the Greene County School System to help pay for Chrome books for 600 students in grades K-12.
Jones said some students will begin using their new Chrome books immediately during summer school.
Dallas Summer Musicals (DSM) and Dallas Independent School District (Dallas ISD) today announced the release of the “Lift Every Voice and Sing” Dance Video Project starring Dallas ISD students and their teachers in celebration of the spirit of collaboration and to raise awareness for the necessity of arts in the school 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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The Houston Independent School District will consider passage today of a $2 billion budget for the 2020-2021 academic year which includes a $34.4 million salary and benefits package as well as an increase in employer contribution to health insurance premiums for employees.
The board will hold a virtual public hearing on the 2020-2021 budget and tax rate today, Thursday, June 11 at 4 p.m., followed by its regular monthly virtual meeting which begins at 5 p.m.
The salary and benefits package has been updated to also include the following:
The tax rate in HISD’s 2020-2021 budget is slated to be a maximum of $1.1331 for every $100 of property valuation, down a fraction from last year’s $1.1367.
As part of the 2020-2021 budget, HISD will also be required to send $12 million in “excess revenue” to the state of Texas since the district’s revenues will exceed its entitlement under the new school finance system.
HISD’s budget must be approved by June 30 in accordance with state law, since HISD’s fiscal year begins annually on July 1 and ends on June 30.
… adviser Dr. Scott Atlas. Among African Americans, 46 percent of excess deaths …
Students Return to Classrooms Oklahoma City’s youngest students are likely to return to face-to-face classes next month, The Black Chronicle has learned. The school district announced last week that pre-kindergarten…
The Crusader also found that under MGT’s leadership, the Gary school district is in worse shape academically now than in 2015 when many Gary schools had higher test scores, graduation rates and less suspensions and unexcused absences.
Under MGT’s leadership from 2017 to 2019, five out seven Gary schools received F grades for two consecutive years on the state’s accountability tests, state data show.
Under MGT’s leadership, these schools never achieved a state grade higher than an F.
Before MGT and the takeover, Frankie Woods McCullough earned an A grade on the state accountability test in the 2015-2016 school year, state records show.
After MGT’s takeover, only 46 percent of Beveridge’s students who took the IREAD test passed in the 2017-2018 school year.
But critics say the dramatic decline in state test scores, failing accountability grades, soaring suspensions and unimpressive enrollment figures are ominous signs that the takeover is failing Gary schools and its students.
The parents of an 8-year-old boy who killed himself after being bullied repeatedly at an Ohio school have reached a... View Article
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AN ACT Relating to prohibiting government entities from discriminating or
granting preferential treatment based on race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national
origin; and adding new sections to chapter 49.60 RCW.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. (1) 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.
(2) This section applies only to action taken after the effective date of this
section.
(3) This section does not affect any law or governmental action that does not
discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group
on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin.
(4) This section does not affect any otherwise lawful classification that:
(a) Is based on sex and is necessary for sexual privacy or medical or
psychological treatment; or
(b) Is necessary for undercover law enforcement or for film, video,
audio, or theatrical casting; or
(c) Provides for separate athletic teams for each sex.
(5) This section does not invalidate any court order or consent decree that is
in force as of the effective date of this section.
(6) 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.
(7) For the purposes of this section, state includes, but is not necessarily
limited to, the state itself, any city, county, public college or university,
community college, school district, special district, or other political
subdivision or governmental instrumentality of or within the state.
(8) 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
Diane Edith Watson was born November 12, 1933 in Los Angeles, California and has spent the majority of her life in the Los Angeles area. Her father was a Los Angeles policeman and her mother worked nights at a post office after her parents divorced when Watson was seven.
In 1950 Watson graduated from Dorsey High School and obtained a bachelor’s degree in education from UCLA in 1956. Here she became friends and sorority sisters with fellow congresswoman Yvonne Braithwaite Burke, of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. Eleven years later, at California State University at Los Angeles, Watson received her master’s degree. Watson received a doctorate in education from Claremont Graduate University in 1986.
In 1956 Watson became a public school teacher in Los Angeles and worked up the ranks to assistant principal in 1969. During that time she held visiting teacher positions in France and Japan. By 1971 Watson worked as a Los Angeles Unified School District health education specialist where she focused on mental health issues among the district’s 500,000 students.
In 1975 Diane Watson became the first African American woman elected to a seat on the Los Angeles Unified School District Board. Elected during the height of the city’s school busing controversy, Watson became the leading proponent of court ordered busing to end racial segregation in the sprawling district.
Watson relinquished her seat on the School Board in 1978 to run for the California State Senate. In a year when Republicans swept most of the offices in the state, and Watson’s friend Yvonne Braithwaite Burke lost her campaign to become the state’s first African American Attorney General, Watson was elected with 70% of the vote. Watson, a staunch liberal, often found herself at odds with the legislature’s Republicans and often with more moderate Democrats. However she was extremely popular in her South Central Los Angeles District and held her seat until 1998.
After serving for two years as United States Ambassador to the Federated States of
The Gary Community School Corporation is committed to making food available to students every Monday through the end of summer 2020.
In an effort to raise awareness and participation in the 2020 Census, information and promotional items will be distributed to families as food items are picked up.
During Tuesday’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.
Families should only get food from one site to ensure that the District can serve as many youth as possible.
Food items will be handed out by district employees and representatives from food vendor Sodexo Magic.
The Guilford County Board of Education has received threatening emails over the last two weeks, filled with racial slurs and derogatory language. The messages were sent through the school district’s “Let’s Talk” messaging program, which allows the public to send comments directly to district leadership. Some of the emails, which are now public, called the […]
Two white high school students from Arizona's Highland High School thought it would be funny to reenact the death of George Floyd
INGLEWOOD — Students at Morningside High School are leading a community dialogue about creating equal opportunities for success for Black and Latino students in the Inglewood Unified School District.
“Our schools are not as good as if we were to go to La Tijera or Beverly Hills,” said senior Tristan Castillo, who serves as student body vice president at Morningside High School.
“I feel like this protest is more than just a Black Lives Matter thing, it’s for the community and all the people who are in the low-income communities who just want to be treated fairly,” Castillo added.
Castillo and Pilgrim also suggested that the district provide additional academic and community resources for all of its students.
He asked district officials to find more community partners who would be willing to donate their time and money to Inglewood schools.
A Florida school has banned a fictional book about a Black boy who is killed by a white officer.
With brothels and guest houses closed, sex workers in countries such as Kenya, Uganda, Senegal and Botswana, are being compelled to work alone, risking their personal safety on the streets, in clients' residences or even in their own homes.
KESWA has recorded 80 incidences of violence against sex workers by clients, neighbours and police in the first of the month of the pandemic compared to a monthly average of 25 incidents before COVID-19 hit Kenya in mid-March, she added.
Already criminalised, stigmatised, and blamed for the high prevalence of AIDS in Africa, sex workers have also become more susceptible to punitive measures by police enforcing COVID-19 regulations in many countries.
Grace Kamau, regional coordinator for the African Sex Workers Alliance, said police in countries such as Uganda, Kenya Ivory Coast, Malawi, Zimbabwe and South Africa, were raiding brothels and bars, assaulting and arresting sex workers.
A survey of 884 sex workers in Kenya conducted by KESWA found more than 65% of respondents could not get condoms and medication for HIV, such as anti-retroviral drugs, due to price hikes on public transport linked to COVID-19 restrictions.
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. […]
As an educator, I’ve seen our public education system fail at effectively ensuring that students not only learn core content at equitably rigorous levels, but also fail at helping students learn about the realities of race, class, privilege, and collective responsibility.
Schools and districts should create space and opportunity for the adults and students in the system to safely
learn about issues of race and equity and partner with professional organizations that can facilitate learning that leads to tangible actions and outcomes.
Schools and districts should prioritize the social and emotional learning (SEL) and mental health needs of students and adults.
School districts should partner with psychologists, utilize school counselors, and create time and space within the daily learning experience to address the trauma students bring with them to school.
Although there are many examples of divergent teachers and leaders implementing many of these reforms in their classrooms, school buildings, and districts, our collective public education
system still needs a revolution, primarily because it has failed people of color for generations with no clear end in sight.
LOS ANGELES — The mayor of Pico Rivera and the owner of an education consulting firm have been charged with improperly reimbursing family members and friends for donating money to a candidate who was running for a seat on Montebello’s school board, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced June 23.
Pico Rivera Mayor Gustavo Vidal Camacho, 54, and Luis Diaz Rojas, 55, are set to be arraigned Oct. 8 in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom on one felony count each of conspiracy to commit improper identification of a campaign contributor and one misdemeanor count each of making a campaign contribution under a false name or improper identification of a campaign contributor, prosecutors said.
Camacho and Rojas, owner of the DelTerra Group, allegedly engaged in a scheme to launder contributions to Joanna Flores, a Montebello Unified School District board member, according to prosecutors.
The company specializes in managing school construction projects and has worked on projects in Montebello, Pico Rivera and Whittier over the years, many of which involved litigation.
An independent audit in 2018 of the firm’s work on a project for the Montebello Unified School District called on the firm to refund money the district had paid or prove how it had provided services to the district.
