TUESDAY | MAY 21, 2013
Mississippi Prepares New Push on Education
CLARKSDALE, Miss. (AP) — It’s early on a Friday morning, and high school chemistry students in Victoria Dawson’s class are working equations at the board. Dawson is peppering the class of 11 girls and four boys with questions, trying to keep everyone focused as she helps correct mistakes. When a student gets one of [...] 
WASHINGTON (AP) — State funding for pre-kindergarten programs had its largest drop ever last year and states are now spending less per child than they did a decade ago, according to a report released Monday. The researchers also found that more than a half million of those preschool students are in programs that don’t [...]
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The patterns of racial inequality in San Francisco are unique among urban public school systems. Our school district has some of the highest overall scores and, at the same time, the lowest rates of success in the state for Black and Latino students. At Coleman, we believe this achievement gap runs counter to community [...]
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Cuts to Alabama’s higher education are making it harder for low- and middle-income students to earn their degrees and those reductions are jeopardizing the state’s economic competitiveness, Arise Citizens’ Policy Project (ACPP) said late last month. The nonprofit coalition, which works on policies to help low-income residents, points to per student dollar decreases of $4,546, [...]
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The California Dream Act went into effect on Jan. 1, allowing thousands of immigrant students a chance for the first time to apply for state financial aid to help pay tuition at state colleges and universities. Within hours of going live, the online application system was overwhelmed by applicants and shut down. “It was the [...]
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Joyce Parker, director of Citizens for a Better Greenville, was honored at the White House on Tuesday for her deep dedication to improving education among African Americans, especially her efforts to end the school-to-prison pipeline. The White House honored ten leaders from around the country as “Champions of Change.” Parker became involved in grassroots organizing [...]
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Public schools are community institutions supported by tax payer revenue to stabilize, strengthen, support, and sustain communities. However, there are market-driven interests in the U.S. determined to profit off the backs of our children; resulting in destabilized communities, and solidifying poverty in communities of color. Recently, the Kenwood Oakland Community Organization (KOCO) worked with 18 [...]
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WASHINGTON (AP) — An Education Department commission is recommending pre-kindergarten programs for every poor student within 10 years, adding a time-frame to President Barack Obama’s similar call to help the least advantaged arrive for their first day of classes as prepared as their counterparts from more affluent homes. Education Secretary Arne Duncan on Tuesday released [...]
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Chicago community organizations are stepping in to help find solutions to high truancy and absentee rates among students in kindergarten through eighth grade. They have come up with a wide variety of solutions in response to the variety of reasons children struggle to make it to school. The Chicago Tribune recently published an analysis school [...]
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Open your notebooks and sharpen your pencils. School for thousands of public school students is about to get quite a bit longer. Five states announced Monday that they will add at least 300 hours of learning time to the calendar in some schools starting in 2013. Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York and [...]
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