From AZCentral A group of artists has been asked to lighten the faces of children depicted in a giant public mural at a Prescott school. The project’s leader says he was ordered to lighten the skin tone after complaints about the children’s ethnicity. But the school’s principal says the request was only to fix shading […]

By Ashley AC Trybula Wayne State University‘s Tom Adams Field was packed Wednesday morning to hear first lady’s speech on mentoring and the future of Detroit: the youth.

From the NY Post: It’s not just in math and reading that charter schools are dealing out aces.

From TheGrio.com: What are the odds of a student graduating high school with perfect attendance…since kindergarten?

Officials say a program for African American elementary students in Ann Arbor that was disbanded after criticism over a field trip to meet a black rocket scientist violated state law.

From New York Injury News Houston, TX – A cell phone video of a Houston teacher beating a 13-year-old student on April 29, 2010, was posted on YouTube, prompting the immediate termination of the teacher and a possible lawsuit from the boy’s mother, as reported by KTRK-TV/DT. Isaiah Jones, a student at Jamie’s House Charter […]