BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — The American Civil Liberties Union immediately condemned the plan, stating it puts millions’ education and civil rights at risk.
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(Slate) – Washington state’s education system has made national news several times in the past few months, mostly for not-awesome reasons: First, a court ordered the...
By Jazelle Hunt Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) –According to a report released last week, 3.5 million K-12 public school students were suspended in the 2011-2012 school...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist The purpose of public schools is to educate not exclude children, and to help identify and meet child needs, not...
(The Washington Post) – I received a call from my sons’ school in March telling me that my oldest needed to be picked up early. He had...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – In the 2011-2012 school year, Black students without disabilities were more than three times as likely to...
KIMBERLY HEFLING, AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration on Wednesday pressed the nation’s schools to abandon what it described as overly zealous discipline...
