From ChicagoBreakingNews.com: About 700 students gathered in front of Chicago Public Schools headquarters this morning to protest drastic budget cuts which they say they are already starting to feel.
From NY1: In what is currently a leafy spot in the middle of the St. Nicholas Houses in Harlem, two city agencies and a non-profit plan to build a charter school. It would be the first charter built on public housing land — a plan Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been working on for months.
From the LA Times: High school students in Compton were upset in February when they heard that a group of UC San Diego students had mocked their hometown by holding a “Compton Cookout” party and inviting guests to come as “ghetto chicks” and gangsters.
Alaska’s groundbreaking Black Role Model Initiative consists of black men going into schools to mentor African-American boys. Tye Nero’s career plan was simple: become a professional basketball player.
From NYTimes.com: It was a silent call to arms: an easy-to-overlook message urging New Jersey students to take a stand against the budget cuts that threaten class sizes and choices as well as after-school activities. But some 18,000 students accepted the invitation posted last month on Facebook, the social media site better known for publicizing […]
As I happened to be visiting the state of Georgia this week, I became aware of a controversy involving the rapper T.I. (a.k.a. Clifford Harris) and whether or not he should be allowed to visit with local school children. Â T.I., one of the top selling artists in America, does regular visits to schools to discourage […]
From the NY Times: The sudden closing of the Harlem School of the Arts this month is proving to be temporary: The mayor and other city officials and a host of donors have stepped in to resuscitate the storied and fiscally troubled Harlem institution, and it is to reopen on Saturday.
Education activists, and indeed anyone with a stake in the future of Black children, must remain vigilant and vocal when it comes to the re-segregation of American schools.
MANHATTAN – The soaring, lyrical monologues of playwright August Wilson have been performed by some of the theatre world’s greatest actors. Now, talented high school students will get their chance to breathe new life into August Wilson’s monologues.
From InsideOut.ChicagoPublicRadio.org: There are many more black and brown young people in our jails and prisons than you’d predict, if you just look at their percentages in the population at large.
ATLANTA (AP) — Spelman College will use a $1 million grant to increase the number of engineers who are black women.
