(Washington Examiner) — Kaya Henderson is tired of breaking china. The interim D.C. schools chancellor remembers a class she took in college: Cycles of Revolution, something like that. It explained that when something is broken, people reach a boiling point. There’s a bloody battle in the streets. And then people look up: They realize their […]
(San Francisco Chronicle) — More than a third of California’s African American public high school students dropped out before graduation day, a startling number and one that’s on the rise, according to 2009 data released Tuesday. The 37 percent African American dropout rate, up three percentage points from the prior year, was far above that of […]
(New American Media) — He was on his way to class. He really was. He wasn’t “ditching” and he had no intentions of leaving campus to engage in illicit or illegal behavior. Rodney Smith said he forgot his backpack in the school cafeteria and went to retrieve it; that’s the reason he was late to […]
(Wall Street Journal) — Former Washington, D.C., schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee launched a national advocacy group Monday to support political candidates and school districts that embrace substantial changes in public education. Through the group, StudentsFirst, Ms. Rhee hopes to raise $1 billion to dole out to political candidates who support her policies and to local […]
By Brittany Hutson Today, for the first time in three years, the NAACP will begin their three-day national education summit in Raleigh, NC to address the problems within the nation’s educations system, particularly as it relates to re-segregating schools. It’s a fight the civil rights organization is no stranger to since they have been advocating […]
A Detroit prosecutor's answer to the youth crime epidemic is requiring a parent to attend at least one parent-teacher conference a year or risk facing up to three days in jail.
To look toward charter schools as the savior of our public school system is absolutely absurd.