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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.
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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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.
\"Our students of color are treated differently in our schools,\" Kim Ellison, who chairs the Minneapolis Board of Education, told NPR earlier this month.
Gupta-Kagan spoke to NPR's Kat Chow in 2017, two years after a troubling video went viral, showing a school resource officer in South Carolina throwing a black student from her desk to the ground.
Hugh Harmon, then-head of the district's black parents association, told Chow his group has been asking for some time, \"Is [the SRO] a school police officer, or is he a resource as the name suggests?\"
In 2018, NPR's Anya Kamenetz reported that between 2012 to 2016, black high school students were twice as likely to be suspended as white or Hispanic high school students.
That's how much more funding predominantly white school districts receive compared with districts that serve mostly students of color.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court declined Monday to take up an appeal from parents in Oregon who want to prevent transgender students from using locker rooms and bathrooms of the gender with which they identify, rather than their sex assigned at birth. The case came from a school district near Salem, Oregon’s capital city. […]
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.
Police Commissioner Tyrone Griffith said Wednesday said there is no clear evidence at this point of a serial killer targeting sex workers in The City, following the gruesome slaying of a Jamaican woman, reputed to be a sex worker.Detectives were seeking to determine whether there are any patterns that might link her death to a rash of similar attacks on women who ply their trade at night on City streets – all between the months of July and September.But an expert on human trafficking has warned that numerous non-national women, particularly from Jamaica, are vulnerable to gross acts of violence because of their fragile economic situation.
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 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.
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The following are various awards and distinctions given to BlackPast.org since its founding.
National Education Associations Carter G. Woodson Memorial Award
Award Ceremony: July 2, 2015
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Washington State Jefferson Award, 2015
Award Ceremony: April 13, 2015
Given by Seattle CityClub to our founder, Dr. Quintard Taylor, for his work on BlackPast.org. Winners represent unsung heroes; those who are making a difference in their community, the nation, and the world, through their jobs, or volunteer service. http://bit.ly/1FGKZd1
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Charles Payton Award for Heritage Advocacy, 2011
Date: Awards Ceremony, Seattle Museum of History and Industry, April 26, 2011
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Cummings K-8 Optional School became a disturbing crime scene Thursday just after 9 a.m. when one student gunned down another student in the stairwell of the South Memphis school. Both were only 13. According to LeBonheur Children’s Hospital officials, the child was in critical condition for most of the day and is expected to make […]
In a win for anti-police violence activists in Oakland, the Oakland School Board voted unanimously Wednesday to disband the OUSD Police Dept., committing to eliminate the department that has 20 sworn officers and 120 school resource officers.
The 7-0 vote followed a two-hour debate and several weeks of a campaign to cut the department led by the Black Organizing Project (BOP), a West Oakland-based group that has been organizing against police presence in Oakland schools since 2011.
The school board passed the George Floyd Resolution to Eliminate the Oakland Schools Police Department, or the George Floyd Resolution for short, which calls for the board to disband OUSD police and reallocate the resources used on police to student support personnel like social workers, psychologists and restorative justice practitioners.
According to BOP, Oakland’s school board is the first in the nation to move to disband its own police department.
The vote by the school board comes a day after the Oakland City Council voted to keep the budget for the Oakland Police Dept. largely intact, voting 5-1 to cut OPD’s budget by $2.5 million for the next fiscal year by delaying the start of a police academy.
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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By: Alyssa Wilson After being suspended for refusing to remove a Black Lives Matter flag from outside her classroom, a Florida teacher learned she was fired in a YouTube video. According to The Florida Times-Union, Amy Donofrio, a teacher at Robert E. Lee High School in Jacksonville, was watching a video of Florida Department of Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran. The commissioner was speaking at Hillsdale College in Michigan about curriculum oversight and critical race theory. In his comments, he used Donofrio as an example and announced he fired her. RELATED: Texas GOP move to ban educators from teaching Critical Race Theory Corcoran […]
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The head football coach at an Ohio high school was fired, alongside six other coaches, after they reportedly used pork to penalize one of their players; details inside.
… adviser Dr. Scott Atlas. Among African Americans, 46 percent of excess deaths …
Co-parenting coaching seeks to help these individuals interact in a functional manner so that their personal past doesn’t damage the development of their children. We spoke to Aria Craig, a co-parenting and blended family expert, on what clients might expect to learn in co-parenting coaching, and why it can be helpful.
Born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1938, Juanita Millender McDonald was an educator and member of the United States House of Representatives. She received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Redlands and a master’s degree from California State University at Los Angeles.
Millender-McDonald taught in the Los Angeles School District, and was the editor of Images, a textbook designed to improve the self-esteem of young women. As director of gender-equity programs for the school district, Millender-McDonald received national recognition when she served on the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future.
In 1990, Millender-McDonald became the first African-American elected to the Carson City Council. She was elected mayor pro tem for Carson in 1991, and won a set in the California State Assembly in 1992.
Millender-McDonald announced her candidacy for the U.S. representative of California’s Thirty-Seventh Congressional District after Representative Walter R. Tucker III resigned. She defeated eight other candidates in the March 1996 Democratic primary, and ran unopposed in the general election. She was sworn into office in April 1996, and was reelected to five terms. Millender-McDonald was a member of the Congressional Black Caucus and served on the House Committee on Small Business, and the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. She was also the first African American woman to chair the Committee on House Administration.
In the House, Millender-McDonald had a liberal voting record. She worked on issues which included election reform and genocide in Darfur and Cambodia. She also worked with Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright and Ambassador John Miller on human trafficking and women’s rights issues. Millender-McDonald drew national attention in 1996 when she had then-CIA director John Deutch address the community of Watts, California, about allegations that profits from domestic sales of crack cocaine were funneled to the CIA-backed Contras in Nicaragua.
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The Indian Premier League (IPL) is set to resume in the United Arab Emirates in the third week of September, according to reports in India.
There are pros and cons to a new-construction home or existing home, so the decision…
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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
During an emergency special meeting Wednesday, members of the Detroit Federation of Teachers (DFT) voted to authorize a potential safety strike aimed at pressing the Detroit Public Schools Community District … Continued
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