Photograph; Sen. Ron Rice is sponsoring a bill that would require local school boards to approve the closing of a public school. The bill was prompted by the Newark school reorganization plan. (File Photo) By Peggy McGlone/The Star-Ledger | Email the author | Follow on Twitter | [...]
By Peniel E. Joseph | Originally Published at TheRoot| January 15, 2014 | The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial | Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty Images Today, on what should have been Martin Luther King Jr.’s 85th birthday, it’s time to reflect on his legacy and reimagine the significance [...]
Group aims to start its own school Photograph; Video Capture WDSU Television. To View Video. CONCERNED COMMUNITY LEADERS WHO TOOK A STAND TODAY AGAINST WHAT THEY CALL THE "PRISON-LIKE DISCIPLINARY CODE" AT A LOCAL SCHOOL. AS AN ACT OF PROTEST, SOME PARENTS ARE REMOVING THEIR [...]
Photograph; The Ku Klux Klan, a white supremacist group, is known for its violent past and white-hooded costume "The more things change the more they stay the same." "The times, they are a changin'." Will we? Florida school named after KKK leader to change [...]
By Jeff Bryant | Originally Published at Campaign For America's future. December 11, 2013 “We have to fight for our children’s education.” Those words, from Philadelphia parent Kia Hinton, crystallized a national sentiment expressed during a Day of Action to Reclaim the Promise of Public Education held [...]
Photograph; Mayor Rahm Emanuel convinced his allies to block a vote on sending more TIF funds back to the schools. Alex Wroblewski/Sun-Times Media Democracy is but a dream that has not come true. In 2013, we move further from freedom at an unprecedented and perilous speed. This [...]
Irene Robinson stands outside Overton Elementary School on the South Side of Chicago on Thursday, Sept. 5, 2013. Robinson, who attended this school as a child, is upset that the school was among 47 public schools that closed in the city in June. Her grandchildren attended the [...]
Teachers across Onondaga County wore blue today as part of a National Day of Action to Reclaim the Promise of Public Education. Van Duyn Elementary students, from left to right, Harmony Allison-Lemon, a kindergartener, Edith Hill, a first grader, Elijah Wright, a second grader, and Janae Robinson, [...]
By Ted Cox @tedcoxchicago | Originally Published at DNAinfo Chicago. on December 3, 2013 5:56pm Ald. John Arena says there's an organized strategy to keep his proposed referendum on an elected school board off the March primary ballot. DNAinfo/Ted Cox CITY HALL — A [...]
