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Tag: Education Reform
Chicago Private and Charter Schools Receive $5 Million to Expand Enrollment
Philanthropist and school choice advocate Janine Yass teamed up with the Center for Education Reform, to award $5 million in RESCUE Grants to Chicago private and charter schools with the “capacity and interest in expanding quickly.”
The Role of the Media in Education Reporting – from the Eight Black Hands podcast
Our friends at Eight Black Hands podcast takes a serious look at education in the U.S. and how it serves (or doesn’t) the 8 million Black students in the system. Their latest episode takes a deep dive into the role that the media plays in keeping the public informed (or not) about education. Who is centered in the stories the…
I’ll Believe Y’all Are Serious About Black Lives Mattering When You Send More of Our Kids to College Instead of Prison
This post originally appeared on Hope+Outrage on June 17, 2020. I’m hearing a lot of people now all “rah-rah” for Black lives mattering. Meanwhile, I’m over here rolling my eyes at it all because to me, talk is cheap and history has receipts. Black lives didn’t matter in America when Sandra Bland, Tamir Rice, Jordan Foster, Rekiya Boyd, Eric Garner…
My Toxic but Open Relationship With Education Activism
As activists and storytellers, we have to break it down and make it make sense to the communities we’re fighting for.
Moving Everest Charter School Opens in Austin Community
On August 24, 2015, Moving Everest Charter School opened their doors. Located on the West side of Chicago, Moving Everest has a vision to provide Austin with a robust elementary school that prepares students to enter and excel in a college preparatory high school.
One on One: Providence Englewood Parent Shares Greatest Challenge of School Option
The public conversation around schools and education in Chicago is unfairly one-sided. The reality is that education reform in Chicago has had a positive impact on a large number of students, families and communities in Chicago. We’re on a mission to share real stories, from real people who have been positively impacted by education reform. Latoya Jones is the mom…
A Letter to Ed. Reformers: Don’t Ignore Black Lives Matter
It’s the Monday after Thanksgiving, time to get back into the classroom. School leaders everywhere will work hard to get students and staff refocused on the labor of love that is education. But, there will be something significant competing for attention in Chicago schools this Monday. A lot has happened since the last time teachers and students in the city…