The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights recently issued a sweeping 158-page report demonstrating how K-12 funding structures negatively impact opportunities for low-income students and students of color. Among many recommendations...
Tag - educational justice
One of my favorite weeks of the year, is National School Choice Week. School choice means parental choice. It means ensuring that families have access to the school options (traditional, charter, magnet, homeschooling...
Dia Jones, shares a poignant message about her grandmother, Dr. King, and the hope and dreams of Black students. My grandmother was the epitome of a dream catcher. She was born in a place and time when she was not expected to...
Mansur Buffins served as a summer intern at The Education Trust. Over the summer, he wrote for their blog page. Mansur reminds me of members of The Fellowship: Black Male Educators for Social Justice and Philly youth like...
You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time. -Angela Davis How many Black male teachers did you have in your pre-K to 12th-grade experience? Black men are the most...
Many of my conscious Black friends shared their reflections about seeing the movie depicting Black folks in a “sunken place.” Well, if Get Out is anything like the slow-moving train wreck that keeps playing as I watch...
Recently I had the honor of speaking at the National Network of State Teachers of the Year conference. It was great to be in a room with so many accomplished educators who have been recognized by their states as at the top of...
Guest Blogger Dia L. Jones is here to slay and lay to rest the charter school vs. traditional public school argument – once and for all. Ashes to ashes. Dust to dust…. Dearly Beloved, We are all gathered here today to...
One of many Brittany Packnett’s tweets has stuck with me and brought up all types of memories of my childhood. Leadership is consistent: the arc of the moral universe does bend toward justice, but it's long. We have to...
@MsPackyetti "Allies take up space; accomplices take up risk." #SummitX #UNDENIABLE — SFER (@SFERnational) March 5, 2017 Last week, I had the absolute pleasure to spend time with reformers and resisters at the...