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Urban School Funding: An Era of Separate and Still Unequal

May 4, 2016
by Kenneth D. Waters
5 min read
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What is one to surmise about today’s educational systems, specifically our nation’s public urban school districts in relation to whether or not they are being adequately funded? Dating as far back to America’s seminal K-12...

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I’m Fighting For the Liberation of the 7th Ward Where ‘Education is the Problem of Problems’

May 2, 2016
by Sharif El-Mekki
4 min read
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Many of our greatest community activists, freedom fighters, and nation builders spoke to us about the sanctity of a rigorous education and how it must be used to uplift, embolden, and liberate. Douglass, Malcolm, Martin, Newton...

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President Obama, Here’s How You Can Get Back to the Classroom When You’re Done Being POTUS

April 26, 2016
by Sharif El-Mekki
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Dear President Obama, In a recent New Yorker blog post, Three Places Obama Could Teach, Cinque Henderson had several suggestions about what you might be interested in doing after your historic time as POTUS (President of the...

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Why We Need Black Men (and Women) to Answer the Call and Teach

April 26, 2016
by Sharif El-Mekki
3 min read
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Our situation as a people is too critical and precarious to afford us the luxury of members who have the opportunity to serve, but feel no need to do so. -Asa Hilliard Had you asked me 25 years ago—and someone did—if...

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Opting Out Co-Opts Our Fight for Equity and Accountability

April 17, 2016
by Sharif El-Mekki
6 min read
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The other day I rode by a mansion in Lower Merion, Pennsylvania—one of the wealthiest districts in the state, if not the country—and I noticed a sign encouraging people to “opt out” of our state’s annual standardized...

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Randi, We Don’t Need a Photo-Op, We Need Better Schools

April 17, 2016
by Sharif El-Mekki
5 min read
3 Comments

Recently, Philadelphia Superintendent William R. Hite announced that North Philadelphia school E.W. Rhodes Elementary would be among four schools undergoing a district-run turnaround plan—requiring staff to reapply for their...

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Sharif El-Mekki

Sharif El-Mekki is the principal of Mastery Charter School–Shoemaker Campus, a neighborhood public charter school in Philadelphia that serves 750 students in grades 7-12. From 2013-2015, he was one of three principal ambassador fellows working on issues of education policy and practice with U.S. Department of Education under Secretary Arne Duncan.

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