EVENT RECAP – Over 500 parents, students and educators rallied in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on May 13th, the 60th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision. The rally kicked off a National Week of Action organized by the Alliance [...]
Reclaiming the Promise of Public Education...A Journey For Justice We Are Reclaiming Our Public Schools: 60 Years After– Reclaiming the Promise of Public Education May 13, 2014 We are reclaiming our public schools. We demanding that the promise of [...]
Moral Movement...How Do You Get There? Language. Method. Discipline Moral Movement. How Do You Get There? Language. Method. Discipline. The Teach-In. Testify - Not Theorize. Forward Together Moral Movement! 'We' Is the Most Important Word in the Social Justice Vocabulary. The [...]
Post by IDEA. The J4J Children Are Not Collateral Damage Webinar – May 9th 2014 – 8:30PM ET Jitu Brown, National Director of J4J Alliance, Deborah Meier, Educator for near fifty years, Activist, and President of Save Our Schools Board, Chicago's Dyett High School Students, [...]
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 "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 [...]
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 [...]
Fulfilling the Promise of Brown v. Board: Organizing for Educational Justice for All We Demand... (For More Details Click on the Plus Signs to the Left of Each Demand) Schools can play an instrumental [...]
Private vouchers purposely divert funding away from our already underfunded public schools, creating a parallel education system without uniform academic standards, accountability or teaching qualifications. Public tax dollars should stay with public schools. Gov. Rick Scott’s allies in the Florida Legislature are [...]
