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Anti-School Choice Folks Love to Champion Students’ Voices, Until They Don’t Like What They Hear

June 21, 2017
by Sharif El-Mekki
5 min read
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This is a guest post by Austin Gibson. Austin is a junior at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP). I graduated from a west Philadelphia high school that’s a turnaround neighborhood charter school that used to be the...

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My Anti-School Choice Friends Are Hypocrites When It Comes to Educating Black Children

June 14, 2017
by Sharif El-Mekki
4 min read
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I have many friends who are staunchly “anti-choice” when it comes to educating  Black children. They are awesome people, folks you would trust with your children or money, but I find their hypocrisy alarming. They can be...

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Camden Principal Dr. William Hayes on Building Relationships, School Climate and Teamwork

May 24, 2017
by Sharif El-Mekki
7 min read
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This is a guest post from Tre Johnson, deputy director for JerseyCAN and a leadership member of The Fellowship–Black Male Educators for Social Justice. It originally appeared on the JerseyCAN blog and was reproduced here with...

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More Black Political Power Should Mean Better Schools for Black Kids. It Hasn’t.

May 8, 2017
by Sharif El-Mekki
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At times, Black people, like any group battered and oppressed by the state, may celebrate any perception of forward motion. Folks scour social media pages to see who has what appointment, what political power is being amassed...

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Celebrating Philadelphia’s Sen. Anthony Williams: A 2017 Champion for Charters and Choice for Families

May 4, 2017
by Sharif El-Mekki
4 min read
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As an early-career teacher, there were people who made some real contributions to my classroom’s culture and instruction. Obviously, some were teacher coaches and mentors who I have written about previously. Others, were...

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The Second Great Migration for Black Families Is Embracing School Choice

March 31, 2017
by Sharif El-Mekki
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Like hundreds of thousands of Black families, my paternal grandmother and several of her relatives participated in the Great Migration, one of the most dramatic population shifts in American history. Although some Blacks left the...

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When Your White Privilege Tells You to Speak for Black Parents, Resist the Urge

March 29, 2017
by Sharif El-Mekki
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For some reason, Carol Burris believes she speaks for Black families. I give her credit as a lifelong and respected educator. We served on a panel together and even exchanged friendly emails. But, I remain concerned about how...

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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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To Know Philadelphia’s Black Community Is to Know How Thirsty We Are for Better Schools

December 1, 2016
by Sharif El-Mekki
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I often wonder what it will take for Black children in our communities to attend high-performing schools. According to many anti-school choice opponents, the only choices that Black, Brown, and poor families should have a right...

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The NAACP Has Fallen and It Can’t Get Up

October 18, 2016
by Sharif El-Mekki
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On Saturday, America’s oldest civil rights organization made its opposition to charter schools and Black families official. What the NAACP should have done, like their local chapter leader, Rodney Muhammad did, was spend time...

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