Introductory Video; Please Join This March, Bryan and Karen To Save Our Communities and Neighborhood Schools To March for a day is not enough to Save Our Schools! Chicago parents march on. Children too fill the streets. Our babies know their schools and education is threatened, [...]
Teachers, Professionals from every field March together to Support Chicago Community Schools and save these excellent learning centers from closure. The Chicago Teachers Union shares, "West side marchers say, "ONE TERM MAYOR."" #cpsclosings #westside #chicago We thank you Chicago Teachers for standing strong to Save Our Students [...]
Day One May 18th 2013 By Bob George. Save Our Schools National Director| May 18, 2013 What would you say if you were told that your children must go to a school that for 8 years has been on academic probation? Dominique Grant’s child along with 250 [...]
Working Together For Effective Reform In America's Public Schools Mostly we hear bickering; we play the blame game. In education, the topic thought to be the great uniter we see divisiveness more than we might imagine. The "Right" and "Left" split along party lines while each [...]
By Faiven Feshazion | Originally Published at Melisa Harris Perry Show. January 29, 2013 | Updated January 7, 2013 Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy There are an overwhelming number of reports that hundreds of schools across the country are scheduled [...]
Photograph; Sixty-five-year-old John Washington pick up his great grandson, Rayshaun Cates, at Samuel Morse Elementary School, a Chicago school closed in 2006. With tools from 1964, community activists are pushing the White House to turn federal education policy around. By James Cersonsky | Originally Published [...]
Whether you believe in resistance, activism, or just the choice to be involved and question, it is clear that youth involvement has changed over recent decades. Frequently, in schools today young Americans are required to "engage," to build a résumé, to improve their skills for a chosen [...]
History offers lessons. It inspires. And it lives. — Recy Taylor (1944), Gertrude Perkins (1949), 15 year old Flossie Hardman (1951), Betty Jean Owens (1959), Joan Little (1974) #SayHerName People keep saying, 'We need to have a conversation about race'…I want to see a white man convicted [...]
By Diane McWhorter | Originally Published at The New York Times. May 8, 1994 | Photographic Credit; Heflin, J. Thomas. Senator. Image circa approximately 1905 -1945 by Harris & Ewing[/caption]You have heard the arguments against the rite of condescension that you are observing today. So I won't [...]
