Racial Justice
Six-year board of education member Dawn Haynes may be ousted from her seat after the Newark school board sent a petition to the state for the recommendation of her removal.
The way students are sorted in the city’s notoriously ruthless admissions process tends to hurt those from low-income backgrounds, children with disabilities, and others.
The Paul Laurence Dunbar Library opened to students at The Oaks Academy middle school last week.
Educators from across the country discussed how to teach students about the history of school segregation and how people resisted.
Since 1965, Fayette County schools have been operating under a desegregation order. Some worry that without court oversight, the system will resegregate.
Representing families challenging school segregation, here’s what the NAACP’s chief legal counsel told the high court.
Daniel Kiel, whose documentary chronicled the ‘Memphis 13,’ sees vouchers and ‘colorblind’ policies eroding progress on desegregation.
The lawsuit asserts that the law is ‘unconstitutionally vague.’
Ruby Bridges, who lost a son to a shooting in 2005, says the letter from 11-year-old Ben Williams resonated with her.
The spike in grievances is a sign that parent leaders are now making use of a disciplinary process slowly rolled out over two years.
Three new national studies find that teachers are self-censoring at high rates, and that students and teachers are more comfortable talking about race in school than LGBTQ issues.
Students at Aldridge Elementary in Altgeld Gardens have ideas for community improvements, as Red Line extension looms.
Prize-winning authors spoke to Whitehaven H.S. students but had to hold back on discussing themes of systemic racism.
The union joined other community members in demanding the release of a report on the racial, cultural, and religious dynamics at Newark’s School of Global Studies after Superintendent Roger León said the review would remain internal.
The revised training is an effort to get educators to think twice before defaulting to a child welfare report, and give them a set of alternatives to try first.
The Denver school board backed the superintendent’s decision to fire Kurt Dennis. The popular McAuliffe principal spoke out about safety concerns, then was accused of mistreating students.
Two former teachers at the Newark School of Global Studies felt their “worth as a teacher and human being has been diminished” after experiencing harassment and racial hostility by students and supervisors last school year, according to legal claims.
El distrito realiza esfuerzos de reclutamiento para atraer maestros de diversos orígenes.
McAuliffe’s interim principal is on leave as an investigation into the school’s seclusion room continues.
New Jersey students of color shared the impact of attending schools that did not reflect their cultural backgrounds and the challenges they faced.