BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE - Too many Black parents watch their children become just another number in school systems shaped by systemic racism and unequal funding. Meanwhile, parents...
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — In a Montessori environment, your infant or toddler will be with teachers—loving, nurturing, and rigorously trained in child development—who create peaceful, supportive, and...
By Tanu Henry and Joe W. Bowers Jr. California Black Media California State Controller Malia Cohen announced last week that she will chair a “statewide multi-agency...
By Antonio Ray Harvey | California Black Media Assemblymember James Ramos (D-Highland), the only Native American elected official in the California Legislature, has been working diligently...
By Ken Epstein | Post News Group The Oakland Post recently received a copy of an ethics complaint filed with the Oakland Ethics Commission about the...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — While outside of Manhattan, in the other four boroughs, rents can be found for much less, the median rent for a one-bedroom apartment...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Karen Gross, a former college president who once served as a senior policy advisor to the U.S. Department of Education, told BlackPressUSA that...
CHICAGO DEFENDER — Race and identity of both our educators and students is only one factor in the holistic successes we are all working towards. However, it’s...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “I started in 1995 when I was asked to help open a Family Resource Center in a high school and students without involved...
“I feel that DeVoid has been miseducated, but perhaps she has been all too well educated in the ways of 45, who promised to disrupt government...
By James Clingman (NNPA Newswire Columnist) The call for a moratorium on charter schools by the NAACP is a case of “Throwing the baby out with...
By Larry Lee (Sacramento Observer, NNPA Member) Access to a good education can reap tremendous benefits in the lives of individuals and in society. That’s why...
By Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr. NNPA Contributor Across the country, parents have been in revolt against high-stakes standardized testing, with kids tested over and over again...
(The Atlantic) – A few years ago, Pablo Alba was called to the principal’s office to meet with me, an aging white guy he’d never met before. A...
by Jeffrey L. Boney Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward Times This past Thursday, the Houston Independent School District (HISD) Board of Trustees voted...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist If you want to see up-close what the political right wants to do to public education, take a look...
(Deadspin) – The African American Mayors Association, led by Kevin Johnson, opens its annual meeting today in Washington, D.C. The former NBA star and current mayor of...
By Freddie Allen Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Parents, students and advocates for strong neighborhood schools continue to pressure civic leaders to end the expansion...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Our public school system is a wreck. It didn’t happen by circumstance. It is by design, a design to...
New Orleans’s Recovery School District will close all of its remaining traditional public schools, according to the Washington Post. Education was one of the major reforms...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – In 1954, Lucinda Todd was one of 13 plaintiffs in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education Supreme...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist There are very few things that are as vile and predatory than cheating young Black students out of a...
