The Urban-School Stigma

Influenced by biases against urban education, parents are moving away from city schools and contributing to segregation in the process.

House Republicans at odds with Trump’s proposed higher education cuts

House Republicans issued a 2018 budget bill Tuesday afternoon that rejects several higher education cuts proposed by President Trump but upholds plans to pull billions of dollars in reserves out of the Pell Grant program for needy college students.

The Broken Promise of Higher Education

Americans believe self-interested leaders have put their needs ahead of students, leading to a college-completion crisis.

By Anne-Marie Slaughter
The Atlantic

The Broken Promise of Higher Education

Americans believe self-interested leaders have put their needs ahead of students, leading to a college-completion crisis.

By Anne-Marie Slaughter
The Atlantic

DeVos praises this voucher-like program. Here’s what it means for school reform.

Florida has channeled billions of taxpayer dollars into scholarships for poor children to attend private schools over the past 15 years, using tax credits to build a laboratory for school choice that the Trump administration holds up as a model for the nation.

Will school choice energize or endanger public education?

The Trump administration’s push for school choice is unlikely to have a big effect on California, where hundreds of charter schools are already flourishing, according to local educators. The greater risk, they say, is that possible changes in federal funding could hurt the state’s most vulnerable students.

Under DeVos, Here's How School Choice Might Work

About the Report

The Building Better Narratives in Black Education report is designed to provide tangible approaches to shift the narrative concerning Black educational reform in order to better engage communities around K-12 education and drive substantive policy changes for Black students.To do this, we build on the experiences of an array of Black voices on K-12 education. We hope individuals will be able to:

(Source: Chicago Defender | Arionne Nettles | September 16, 2016) — The Chicago Urban League is hosting a water collection drive for Flint, Michigan residents thanks to one of its mentoring students.

(Source: Omaha World-Herald) COUNCIL BLUFFS — The Mid-America Center on Tuesday hosted the 2016 Striving for Success African-American Male Summit.