Project Lead is the Urban League's talent development initiative. The goal of the project is to develop talented Urban League professionals and build a pipeline of leaders for the future. The Project is designed to serve Affiliate CEOs, senior professional staff, Young Professionals and other Urban League volunteers.

The Akron Urban League (Akron, OH) will soon offer students opportunities to strengthen their financial skills by working, hands-on, with agriculture and farming.

On Friday (June 8th), the Urban League broke ground for an Urban Farm Hoop House at its headquarters at 440 Vernon Odom Blvd.

Under the newest federal K-12 education law, parents will get more information about schools

The Every Student Succeeds Act replaces No Child Left Behind, the controversial plan that caused upheaval in some schools.

State tests can assist student success

NUL: Higher Ed Act Renewal Must Address Barriers to Underserved Students

As Congress prepares for the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act (HEA) of 1965, one of the nation’s oldest civil rights organizations said that access, affordability, completion and accountability should serve as the guiding principles in supporting the nation’s first civil rights law to address post-secondary learning.

Marc H. Morial

Julie Washington’s Quest to Get Schools to Respect African-American English

The speech pathologist believes that helping kids switch seamlessly between dialects is a key to their success
By William Brennan, theatlantic.com

This year, state leaders need to make K-12 education a priority

By Former Gov. Jack Markell (D-Del)

KIPP Also Rises: Charter Network Opens Sunrise Academy as Welcome Partner of Miami-Dade Public Schools

For Leyla Bravo-Willey, becoming the founding principal of Miami Sunrise Academy, only the fourth KIPP charter school to open in all of Florida and the first to be located in heavily populated South Florida, is a homecoming.

Born in Nicaragua, Bravo-Willey immigrated to the U.S. when she was 2 years old. Her family settled in Miami.

No Longer Homeless, but Still Struggling in School

By Elizabeth A. Harris, NY Times

Charter schools aren’t measuring up to their promises.

Ambitious goals were not uncommon in New Orleans charter schools, but rarely achieved.

By Katy Reckdahl
The Hechinger Report