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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.
Hundreds of Fox Chapel students and alumni are calling on their school district to more aggressively address racial injustice in the district as Black Lives Matter protests have sprung up across the country, including the Pittsburgh region.
These calls for justice and reforms are emerging as the district is conducting an investigation into offensive photos and racist videos posted on a student’s Instagram account with racial epithets.
Bonnie Berzonski, a district spokesperson, acknowledged that officials had seen videos with racial epithets and said the district is following district policies and the law but “will not comment on specific student matters.”
For William Generett, a graduating senior and president of the Black Student Union, the videos provided tangible evidence of the attitudes he has long complained about witnessing in the district.
More than 800 students’ and alumni’s names were included on an open-petition created on June 4 calling on the district to make more public the support for Black Lives Matter and to execute sweeping changes at a time when anti-racism protests are happening across the country.
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.
Judge Tintswalo Makhubele says she saw no conflict with her appointment as a judge while serving as chair of the former PRASA interim board.
Two white high school students from Arizona's Highland High School thought it would be funny to reenact the death of George Floyd
… district — famously — to establish an African American Studies Department, rid the school … taken a disproportionate toll on Black Americans.
“I would like to see … with his colleagues in the African American Studies Department, Pritchard put together …
You’re invited to celebrate Running Rebels Community Organization’s 40 years of service to Milwaukee young people at the virtual EPIC Evening presented by BMO Harris Bank on October 27th at 6:00 pm. Registration information will be emailed out in early October. The FREE event will be a joyful celebration to mark four decades of providing guidance, […]
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This initiative measure is submitted to the people in accordance with the provisions of Article II, Section 8 of the Constitution.
This initiative measure expressly amends the Constitution by adding a section thereto; therefore, new provisions proposed to be added are printed in italic type to indicate that they are new.
PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE I
Section 31 is added to Article I of the California Constitution as follows:
SEC. 31. (a) 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.
(b) This section shall apply only to action taken after the sections effective date.
(c) Nothing in this section shall be interpreted as prohibiting bona fide qualifications based on sex which are reasonably necessary to the normal operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting.
(d) Nothing in this section shall be interpreted as invalidating any court order or consent decree which is in force as of the effective date of this section.
(e) Nothing in this section shall be interpreted as prohibiting action which must be taken to establish or maintain eligibility for any federal program, where ineligibility would result in a loss of federal funds to the state.
(f) For the purposes of this section, state shall include, but not necessarily be limited to, the state itself, any city, county, city and county, public university system, including the University of California, community college district, school district, special district, or any other political subdivision or governmental instrumentality of or within the state.
(g) 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 then-existing California antidiscrimination law.
(h) This
The State Board of Education adopted emergency rules were adopted that allow flexibility and local approval for the waiver of certain high school graduation requirements due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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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 […]
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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.
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
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 […]
Arthur Allen Fletcher is known to many as the father of affirmative action. In the following account historian David Hamilton Golland describes the career of Fletcher, a Republican civil rights activist during the last half of the 20th Century.
Arthur Allen Fletcher, known to many as the father of affirmative action, was born on December 22, 1924, in Phoenix, Arizona. Little is known of Fletcher’s birth father, but his mother, Edna, soon married Buffalo Soldier Andrew Fletcher, who would eventually adopt Arthur. The family moved from one Army base to another for much of Arthur’s childhood before finally settling in Junction City, Kansas.
Fletcher graduated from Junction City High School in 1943, after leading a protest against the school yearbook which placed the photos of black students in a separate section in the back of the publication. Fletcher in his senior year organized a boycott of the segregated yearbook and the following year the practice was permanently dropped.
While at Junction City High Fletcher met Mary Harden, a daughter of one of the local black communitys wealthiest families. Hardens grandparents had owned much of the land that eventually became Fort Riley. They married in May 1943 just as he graduated. Within a year their daughter Phyllis was born, followed by Sylvia (1945), Arthur, Jr. (1947), Paul (1948), and Philip (1949).
Fletcher joined the U.S. Army immediately upon graduation from high school and in the Spring of 1944 was sent to England, where he performed in one of many Army bands and played intramural football. In the fall of 1944 he was a military police officer on the “Red Ball Express” supply line in France. The following spring Fletcher was wounded while serving in Germany in General George Patton’s Third Army. He recovered and was discharged later that year.
Returning to Kansas after the war, Fletcher enrolled in Washburn University in Topeka on the G.I. Bill. While at Washburn he was a doorman at the state legislature and a waiter at the Jayhawk Hotel, a
A Florida school has banned a fictional book about a Black boy who is killed by a white officer.
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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… way to changing how African American history is taught … and accurate curriculum on African American history.
Cherry Hill … more comprehensive and honest African American History curriculum in schools … asked for a mandatory African American history class as …
D.C. Public Schools' plan to allow some elementary school students to classrooms next month amid the coronavirus pandemic will prioritize those who are suffering from homelessness, have special education needs, are at risk or learning English as a second language, school officials said.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Even with shorter curfews starting at 11 p.m. now, sex workers like ‘Prettyface’ have to bring their A game in what is a crowded marketplace.
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Schools across the country are making the news as sites of heated political debates and culture wars asparents and teachers waste the school board meetings on defining Critical Race Theory andpoliticalflags. Students in one school district are doing something about the sudden uptick in racist […]
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Strong, Resilient Built for Education! On Friday, June 19, which was also Juneteenth, the Gary Community School Corporation officially launched its 2020 Enrollment campaign. “Undoubtedly, COVID-19 changed the entire landscape of education almost overnight! School districts everywhere were forced to close their physical doors and re-open as virtual educational institutions,” said Emergency Manager Dr. []
A Colorado bus driver who was captured on video slapping a 10-year-old girl for not wearing her facemask correctly will... View Article
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A Florida principal was fired for a second time after refusing to acknowledge the Holocaust existed. William Latson of Spanish... View Article
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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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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
