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There’s no accusation that Triece mistreated or otherwise engaged in inappropriate behavior that could put kids in danger. Despite volunteering at her children's school for five years, Triece has been told she is no longer welcome.
Nationwide protests have taken place since October 7 despite the disbanding of the controversial Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) police unit.
The demonstrators have been accused of attacking police stations and personnel.
The rallies which are mostly attended by young people have become avenues to vent against corruption and unemployment.
Rights groups say at least 15 people have been killed the demonstrations began in early October.
A Canadian tech company lied to a school district about their system's problems identifying Black faces.
(AP) - Missi Magness wanted her children back in school. The parent of a first-grader and a sixth-grader who attend schools on Indianapolis’ southeast side struggled trying to oversee her children’s schooling while working from home this spring. “They need the structure, they need the socialization, they just need to go,” said Magness. “‘I love […]
by Oseye Boyd If there’s one thing I’m grateful for in 2020, it’s that people are showing their true colors. People have lost all sense of decorum as well as respect for others when in public and are acting out in appallingly shocking ways. I never thought I’d see adults coughing on other adults, Continued
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AN ACT Relating to prohibiting government entities from discriminating or
granting preferential treatment based on race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national
origin; and adding new sections to chapter 49.60 RCW.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. (1) The state shall not discriminate against, or
grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race,
sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment,
public education, or public contracting.
(2) This section applies only to action taken after the effective date of this
section.
(3) This section does not affect any law or governmental action that does not
discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group
on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin.
(4) This section does not affect any otherwise lawful classification that:
(a) Is based on sex and is necessary for sexual privacy or medical or
psychological treatment; or
(b) Is necessary for undercover law enforcement or for film, video,
audio, or theatrical casting; or
(c) Provides for separate athletic teams for each sex.
(5) This section does not invalidate any court order or consent decree that is
in force as of the effective date of this section.
(6) This section does not prohibit action that must be taken to establish or
maintain eligibility for any federal program, if ineligibility would result in a
loss of federal funds to the state.
(7) For the purposes of this section, state includes, but is not necessarily
limited to, the state itself, any city, county, public college or university,
community college, school district, special district, or other political
subdivision or governmental instrumentality of or within the state.
(8) The remedies available for violations of this section shall be the same,
regardless of the injured partys race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin,
as are otherwise
A South Carolina elementary school teacher died earlier this week, mere days after the school district she worked with was notified that she had tested positive for COVID-19. According to […]
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His mom, Adrienne Harvey, says that Alex is a 2020 graduate of Flagler Palm Coast High School (FPCHS) and a high achiever.
Alex’s goal is to become a forensic psychologist due to his love of science – perhaps because of his grandmother, Ada Harvey, a retired biology teacher of Flagler Palm Coast High School.
“Last year, my father (the Rev. Alphonso Harvey) passed away, and I was concerned about how Alex would fare this school year.
Brea was the February 2020 Senior of the Month, class president for three years, Junior Homecoming Princess, captain of her church’s Pathfinder Club – the youngest member of her church’s executive board and serving in the capacity of Youth Activities director.
Brea has played varsity flag football since her freshman year and is a recipient of the Medallion of Excellence Scholarship Award and the DSC Presidential Award.
A federal lawsuit accused a Minnesota teacher of assaulting and singling out several of her Black elementary school students. The lawsuit was filed by Kirsten […]
By Glenn Ellis Back in February, government officials expressed disbelief, as they announced that as many as 69,000 people might die from the impending COVID-19 pandemic. At that time, few of us had been paying attention to how deadly the flu season is on any given year. When we hear that number, most of us […]
Even during the state of emergency, at dusk, the sex workers come out parading as they search for clients
\tIt is risky but they say they are aware of the disease and are taking preventive measures
\t“We wash our hands with soap and water and we always wear a mask.
While the Province has already confirmed cases of the new Coronavirus, two of them are sex workers – a Mozambican and a foreigner
\t“Right now our business is not good because of the Coronavirus, all the stands are closed, so these men don’t come here.
The mayor of Tete, César de Carvalho, is aware of the problem combined with illegal activity and so many foreign prostitutes.
“We’re going to have to get started all together, the immigration services, the police, and the municipality to control foreign women but it is not easy, it is not something that begins today and will end tomorrow.
“
\tBesides the city of Tete, where the activity also takes place in broad daylight, the same business buzzes in the city of Moatize which is 21 kilometers from the provincial capital.
Born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1938, Juanita Millender McDonald was an educator and member of the United States House of Representatives. She received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Redlands and a master’s degree from California State University at Los Angeles.
Millender-McDonald taught in the Los Angeles School District, and was the editor of Images, a textbook designed to improve the self-esteem of young women. As director of gender-equity programs for the school district, Millender-McDonald received national recognition when she served on the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future.
In 1990, Millender-McDonald became the first African-American elected to the Carson City Council. She was elected mayor pro tem for Carson in 1991, and won a set in the California State Assembly in 1992.
Millender-McDonald announced her candidacy for the U.S. representative of California’s Thirty-Seventh Congressional District after Representative Walter R. Tucker III resigned. She defeated eight other candidates in the March 1996 Democratic primary, and ran unopposed in the general election. She was sworn into office in April 1996, and was reelected to five terms. Millender-McDonald was a member of the Congressional Black Caucus and served on the House Committee on Small Business, and the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. She was also the first African American woman to chair the Committee on House Administration.
In the House, Millender-McDonald had a liberal voting record. She worked on issues which included election reform and genocide in Darfur and Cambodia. She also worked with Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright and Ambassador John Miller on human trafficking and women’s rights issues. Millender-McDonald drew national attention in 1996 when she had then-CIA director John Deutch address the community of Watts, California, about allegations that profits from domestic sales of crack cocaine were funneled to the CIA-backed Contras in Nicaragua.
Throughout much of
the U.S. Department of Education announced that it will launch a new grant program to provide additional funding to school districts that have funds withheld by their state or are otherwise financially penalized for implementing strategies to prevent the spread of COVID-19 consistent with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidance, such as […]
You’re invited to celebrate Running Rebels Community Organization’s 40 years of service to Milwaukee young people at the virtual EPIC Evening presented by BMO Harris Bank on October 27th at 6:00 pm. Registration information will be emailed out in early October. The FREE event will be a joyful celebration to mark four decades of providing guidance, […]
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As an educator, I’ve seen our public education system fail at effectively ensuring that students not only learn core content at equitably rigorous levels, but also fail at helping students learn about the realities of race, class, privilege, and collective responsibility.
Schools and districts should create space and opportunity for the adults and students in the system to safely
learn about issues of race and equity and partner with professional organizations that can facilitate learning that leads to tangible actions and outcomes.
Schools and districts should prioritize the social and emotional learning (SEL) and mental health needs of students and adults.
School districts should partner with psychologists, utilize school counselors, and create time and space within the daily learning experience to address the trauma students bring with them to school.
Although there are many examples of divergent teachers and leaders implementing many of these reforms in their classrooms, school buildings, and districts, our collective public education
system still needs a revolution, primarily because it has failed people of color for generations with no clear end in sight.
By Crusader Staff Report With failing grades and poor graduation rates, Indiana’s Distressed Unit Appeals Board last week voted 4-1 to give MGT Consulting a two-year contract to manage Gary’s state-controlled school district. The proposal fell short of MGT’s request for three years. Details about the proposed contract were not available when the announcement was []
This is the path the Inglewood Unified School District (IUSD) took when it decided to close Warren Lane TK-7 Elementary School.
The day before the school board planned to officially approve closing Warren Lane, county administrator Erika Torres scheduled a Zoom meeting for one hour with the parents.
Dionne Faulk, school board Vice President and Trustee Area 1 representative where Warren Lane is located, listened quietly while Scorza excoriated her constituents.
And rather than quietly accept what they were told was a “done deal,” some who had logged on to the meeting got together and started to organize a campaign to change IUSD’s decision to close Warren Lane
A group called F.R.E.E – Fighters for the Right to Receive Equitable Education formed by teachers as well as Warren Lane parents, grandparents and neighbors is circulating a petition on Change.org – “Keep Warren Lane Elementary School Open.”
As a past President of the Inglewood Unified School District Board of Education, I want to apologize to parents and neighbors of Warren Lane for how the decision to close the school was handled.
According to authorities, the latest one has taken place in Harris County, Texas, as the body of a black teenager was found hanging in the parking lot of an elementary school earlier this week according to The New York Daily News.
Based on a tweet sent by the Harris County Sheriff’s Office, officials believe the teen’s death to have been a suicide.
The Harris County Sheriff’s Office said that deputies found the deceased 17-year-old in the parking lot of Ehrhardt Elementary School in Spring, Texas, which is located just 22 miles north of Houston.
This matter remains under investigation by the Harris County Sheriff’s Office.
According to TIME, the FBI, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California, and the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division are “actively reviewing” the deaths.
In light of the abuse of a black 13-year-old Plano ISD student by his white classmates, Dallas Morning News reports that the district plans to offer courses that teach about African American and Mexican American cultures. In February, a video of a Haggard Middle School student being forced to drink a yellow liquid believed to be urine at a sleepover […]
Sylvester Hodges, who died last week, was a parent activist and lifelong civil rights leader who became President of the Oakland School board and led the fight to stop the state from taking over the school district and its financial resources.
Besides serving on the Oakland Board of Education for 12 years, Hodges served as chair of the Paul Robeson Centennial Committee, working successfully to rename the school district administration building in Robeson’s memory.
Geoffrey Pete, the owner of Geoffrey’s Inner Circle (later Planet Soule) and a co-founder of both the Oakland Black Caucus and Niagara Movement Democratic Club, said of Hodges, “He was the most influential individual in terms of integrating the economic landscape in Oakland”
A major contribution was his successful strategy to prevent the takeover of the Oakland school district by the State of California in 1988.
While a powerful array of state politicians pressured the board to accept a $10 million loan which would have placed Oakland under the fiscal control of the state for 30 years, Hodges and his school board colleague Darlene Lawson argued that the takeover attempt seemed to be “ a power trip for the downtown business interests, who are mostly white.”
Soon after Hodges retired from the board, the district went into significant debt and was taken over by the State of California in 2003.
A Virginia-based middle school has been renamed after NASA trailblazer Katherine Johnson.
by Oseye Boyd If there’s one thing I’m grateful for in 2020, it’s that people are showing their true colors. People have lost all sense of decorum as well as respect for others when in public and are acting out in appallingly shocking ways. I never thought I’d see adults coughing on other adults, throwing Continued
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With failing grades and poor graduation rates, Indiana’s Distressed Unit Appeals Board last week voted 4-1 to give MGT Consulting a two-year contract to manage Gary’s state-controlled school district.
DUAB member Tracy Brown was the only official who voted against the two-year contract proposal, because of MGT’s failure to achieve academic improvement among students in the Gary school district.
She disagreed with state School Superintendent Jennifer McCormick’s view that MGT benefitted from three years in Gary.
In 2017, MGT was chosen over several private management companies to take over the school district and reduce its debts totaling over $100 million.
Last month, the Crusader published a story that showed that academic achievement in the Gary school district plummeted under MGT’s leadership.
The Cincinnati Public Schools (CPS) has agreed to a $3 million settlement with the family of an eight-year-old boy who committed suicide in 2017 after he was bullied on multiple occasions while he was enrolled at the Carson Elementary School. Besides the monetary settlement with the family of Gabriel Taye, the school district has also...
Strong, Resilient Built for Education! On Friday, June 19, which was also Juneteenth, the Gary Community School Corporation officially launched its 2020 Enrollment campaign. “Undoubtedly, COVID-19 changed the entire landscape of education almost overnight! School districts everywhere were forced to close their physical doors and re-open as virtual educational institutions,” said Emergency Manager Dr. []
Members of United Teachers Los Angeles, the union representing teachers and other certificated employees in Los Angeles Unified, have voted overwhelmingly to ratify an agreement with the school district related to quarantine instruction, COVID-19 health-and-safety measures and compensation. Nearly 15,800 people in the approximately 34,000-member union voted over a three-day period that ended Saturday, Oct. 2, […]
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Constance Allen Pitter Thomas, the eldest of the Pitter Sisters, was born July 13, 1917, to Edward A. Pitter and Marjorie Allen Pitter, in the East Madison Street district of Seattle, Washington. She grew up in a very close-knit family and community, in which she received emotional, religious, social, civic and political support that provided her with a firm foundation to succeed in life. Mrs. Thomas attended Seattle Public Schools and entered the University of Washington immediately following graduation from Garfield High School.
Constance Pitter attended the University during the Great Depression. This period proved very difficult economically for Constance and the Pitter family, especially with three daughters attending college during the same time span. Nonetheless, she and her siblings managed to remain at the University, with the help of her nuclear and extended family, which included her church, sorority and community.
Pitter was motivated to attend college at a very young age. Her family expected it of her and her sisters for four major reasons: 1) economic independence; 2) social mobility; 3) professional service to the black community; and 4) elevation of the black community. Highly motivated to study theater arts, she enrolled in the Speech and Drama Department as an undergraduate in 1935 and received a degree in 1941.
Pitter went to New York where she joined the American Negro Theatre, winning the Most Promising Actress of 1941” award. However, she decided not to pursue a theatrical career and returned to Seattle where she became a substitute teacher for the Seattle Public Schools for eleven years. Eventually, she received a permanent contract from the school district as a speech therapist and instructor of youth with disabilities. Constance Pitter married Mr. Gordon H. Thomas in 1948. They had one son, Kenneth. Mrs. Thomas retired from the Seattle Public Schools District in 1970. She died in Seattle in 2006.
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