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Archive - January 2017

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Black Families Have a Long History of Using School Choice as Resistance to Racist and Inadequate School Systems

January 29, 2017
by Sharif El-Mekki
3 min read
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National School Choice Week is an independent public awareness effort spotlighting effective education options for children, including traditional public schools, public charter schools, magnet schools, private schools, online...

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We Gotta Do Something About Those Radical Black Lives Matter Folks!

January 23, 2017
by Sharif El-Mekki
4 min read
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After the initial launch of the Black Lives Matter concept to raise awareness of the systemic oppression and racism that was killing Black people through state sanctioned police brutality and extrajudicial murders, the movement...

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Team Trump Wants to Scrap the Office of Civil Rights. Who Will That Benefit?

January 13, 2017
by Sharif El-Mekki
3 min read
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In a community not too far from mine, yet light years away in the tony suburb of Upper Dublin, a group of families lodged a complaint against their local district for consistently discriminatory practices against Black...

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The Luxury of Disengagement: Fighting for Educational Justice in a Trump Presidency

January 7, 2017
by Sharif El-Mekki
8 min read
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“Our people have made the mistake of confusing the methods with the objectives. As long as we agree on objectives, we should never fall out with each other just because we believe in different methods, or tactics, or...

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