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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 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
With the start of school fast approaching, the Gary Community School Corporation is forging ahead with plans for a new academic school year. The District recently announced the official appointments of Kimberley Bradley as Chief Academic Officer and Nicole Wolverton as Chief Financial Officer. Bradley joined the Gary schools at the end of 2019 as […]
At the entrance of the school, there are used condoms, panties, beer bottles, cigarette packets and drug remnants.
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.
Ellen Truskowski is the Pinellas County Schools director of Student Assignment. Her office helps families register for school and apply for district educational opportunities, such as magnet programs. Hello, I am Ellen Truskowski, Pinellas County Schools’ new director of Student Assignment. I have served in this role for several months, but I wanted to formally […]
[News24Wire] As darkness falls, a group of women emerge from the shadows, ready to ply their trade near the Roodepoort Magistrate's Court.
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 […]
AUTUMN IN AMERICA: NOV 3. Are Americans better off today than they were four years ago? No! Four years ago, we had a White House occupant Barack Obama, a Democrat, who understood the clout, dignity, and symbolic power of the office. Today, we have Donald Trump, an autocrat, dismissive of the rule of law, a bully unable to manage the […]
NBA Hall of Famer Charles Barkley donated $1,000 to each Leeds City Schools employee. It's reported that Barkley has given over $3 million in scholarships
ORACLE APPLICATION DEVELOPER The University of Pittsburgh seeks an Oracle Application Developer to work in Pittsburgh to participate in all aspects of Oracle E-Business Suite and Cloud development. Will also analyze end user needs and develop specifications documenting solutions to their requests as well as develop logically sound programming specifications and programs. Applicants should send … Continued
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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
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…
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.
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BLACKPAST.ORG AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS, from 2009 to the present:
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
Given by the NEA for activities in Black affairs that significantly impact education and the achievement of equal opportunity. http://bit.ly/1GVidTa
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
James and Janie Washington Foundation Award for Documentation, 2014
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Charles Payton Award for Heritage Advocacy, 2011
Date: Awards Ceremony, Seattle Museum of History and Industry, April 26, 2011
Given by the Association of King County Historical Organizations (AKCHO),
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Best of Reference: Hybrid Print and Electronic Resources, 2009
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Given by the New York Public Library Association Reference and Adult Services Section,
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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.
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.
In the essay below, Douglas Edelstein, a Social Sciences instructor at Nathan Hale High School in Seattle, Washington, describes the challenges faced by instructors of all backgrounds in sensitively teaching issues of race in public and private schools.
Students who encounter racism in texts can experience racial trauma, even if the larger overall message or theme of the text is antiracist. Good teaching of racially charged texts can minimize trauma for students and make accessible the broader antiracist themes of the text, as well as any literary or other qualities of value.
A Native American student sat in her tenth grade classroom at our school, reading the classic novel of modern dystopia, Brave New World . In it, Aldous Huxley introduces a place called the “savage land,” where modernity has never taken hold. Here live in relative squalor Native people and rebels or cast-outs from the mainstream society. By the end of the book, Huxley ultimately makes clear that this “savage land” is really the only “civilized” place in society, where values are morally correct, perspectives proper, human life is understood and lived in its most humane and compassionate meanings, and people are wiser and more human than their modernized counterparts. But well before the reader gets there -- before the irony of the term “savage” is fully revealed -- the Native student, dutifully reading along, has encountered a number of contemptuous references to the “savages” who inhabit this “savage land.” These people have been described by characters in the novel as backward, unclean, uncivilized, simple, primitive, violent, ungoverned – in short, every stereotype ever thrown at Native Americans. The Native student feels betrayed by the teacher, angry, belittled, disenfranchised, bashed, dehumanized, unseen, insulted, unjustly singled out, nearly everything a student would legitimately feel if they had been intentionally and overtly insulted because of their race.
The student, feeling racially assaulted, tunes out, turns off,
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 []
Countries in the East African hinterland, especially Uganda and Rwanda, have been making very unhappy noises about long-distance truck drivers, as they have now become super-spreaders of the new coronavirus.
“Their drivers gather at truck stops, weighbridges and customs points, socialising at lodges, restaurants and with sex workers who ply the busy routes linking the port cities of Mombasa and Dar es Salaam to Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan.
“With most East African countries under strict restrictions to curb the coronavirus, truck drivers are among the few allowed to circulate as they ferry essential goods across the region.
Faced with a similar problem of coronavirus-spreading truck drivers, it was reported a few days ago that Zambia fell back to its sex workers to help trace people who had contracted new infections at the town of Nakonde, near its border with Tanzania.
Additionally, because drivers go sowing their wild oats along the truck corridors, and many of the residents of these towns are social rebels who have broken away from conservative and traditional settings, outcasts, and worldly adventurers, the people born in these places are often the most “tribeless”.
Submitted Oct. 12, 1927.
Decided Nov. 21, 1927.
Mr. Chief Justice Taft delivered the opinion of the Court.
This was a petition for mandamus filed in the state circuit court of Mississippi for the First judicial district of Bolivar County.
Gong Lum is a resident of Mississippi, resides in the Rosedale consolidated high school district, and is the father of Martha Lum. He is engaged in the mercantile business. Neither he nor she was connected with the consular service, or any other service, of the government of China, or any other government, at the time of her birth. She was nine years old when the petition was filed, having been born January 21, 1915, and she sued by her next friend, Chew How, who is a native-born citizen of the United States and the state of Mississippi. The petition alleged that she was of good moral character, between the ages of 5 and 21 years, and that, as she was such a citizen and an educable child, it became her fathers duty under the law to send her to school; that she desired to attend the Rosedale consolidated high school; that at the opening of the school she appeared as a pupil, but at the noon recess she was notified by the superintendent that she would not be allowed to return to the school; that an order had been issued by the board of trustees, who are made defendants, excluding her from attending the school solely on the ground that she was of Chinese descent, and not a member of the white or Caucasian race, and that their order had been made in pursuance to instructions from the state superintendent of education of Mississippi, who is also made a defendant.
The petitioners further show that there is no school maintained in the district for the education of children of Chinese descent, and none established in Bolivar County where she could attend.
The Constitution of Mississippi (Const. 1890, 201, 206) requires that there shall be a county common school fund, made up of poll taxes from the various counties, to be retained in the counties where the same is collected, and a
Bridgette Digerolamo, a Louisiana PE teacher, is facing multiple charges after threatening a Black family with a bat and a gun as they drove down her flooded neighborhood street, WBRZ []
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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
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.
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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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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According to authorities, the latest one has taken place in Harris County, Texas, as the body of a black teenager was found hanging in the parking lot of an elementary school earlier this week according to The New York Daily News.
Based on a tweet sent by the Harris County Sheriff’s Office, officials believe the teen’s death to have been a suicide.
The Harris County Sheriff’s Office said that deputies found the deceased 17-year-old in the parking lot of Ehrhardt Elementary School in Spring, Texas, which is located just 22 miles north of Houston.
This matter remains under investigation by the Harris County Sheriff’s Office.
According to TIME, the FBI, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California, and the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division are “actively reviewing” the deaths.
