Public Schools In The Crosshairs
Members of the Alabama Tea Party gather outside the Alabama Statehouse in January 2014 to protest the state’s adoption of the Common Core State Standards. Tea Party factions across the country have been among the most vocal grassroots critics of standards dubbed "Obamacore" by many [...]
Diamond McCullough – J4J Webinar Panelist
Diamond McCullough Diamond McCullough is a seventeen year-old senior at Walter H. Dyett High School on the south side of Chicago. She is a youth leader with the Kenwood Oakland Community Organization. Diamond is also a teen youth leader in the Voices of [...]
Sharon Smith – J4J Webinar Panelist
Sharon Smith Sharon Smith is the President and CEO of Parents Unified for Local School Education (PULSENJ), a parent-led non-profit organization created to train, organize, mobilize, and inform parents about education issues, parental rights, bringing parents into the decision making process, empowering parents [...]
Parrish Doral Brown Jr. – J4J Webinar Panelist
Parrish Doral Brown Jr. On the day April 9th, 1996 early in the morning in Norwegian American Hospital, a child named Parrish Doral Brown Jr. was born. He is a proud African American male and the son of Denise Brown and Parrish Doral [...]
The Color of School Closures
Originally Published at Opportunity to Learn. Tuesday April 23rd, 2013 Mass school closings have become a hallmark of today's dominant education policy agenda. But rather than helping students, these closures disrupt whole communities. And as U.S. Department of Education data suggests, the most recent rounds of mass [...]
Partnerships, NOT Pushouts: New Policy Guide for School Boards
Partnerships, NOT Pushouts - New "Whole-Child" Policy Guide for School Board Members Tuesday April 22nd, 2014 In today’s global economy, a high quality, comprehensive education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity – it's a prerequisite to success. Students must now possess not only academic knowledge [...]
Florida Statewide Study on School Choice – Consensus Report on Charter Schools
Introduction The Florida League of Women Voters’ study on school choice was initiated to better understand the oversight of public moneys that are allocated to charter schools and other private educational institutions. How these public/private educational programs align with the constitutional requirement for a [...]
Black.Man.Teach.
Black.Man.Teach. Currently, black males represent less than 2% of our nation's teacher workforce. Our young brothers and sisters, our children, our schools, our communities, and our country need more black male teachers. To increase these numbers we must explore, examine, and confront all of [...]