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A recent lawsuit in Arkansas references Brown v. Board of Education and makes wildly inaccurate and inappropriate claims that undermine the educational pursuits of thousands of students. Learn more in my article below which is just out. #education #schoolchoice #constitution

Advocates are celebrating a policy change by the Pittsburgh Public School board. Pittsburgh Public Schools (PPS) has extended the moratorium on issuing summary citations. Summary Citations are similar to traffic tickets, and often issued to youth for low-level infractions like disorderly conduct. These citations have been disproportionately issued to Black students in Pittsburgh Public Schools by school police and can have negative long-term consequences for students. Read more about the moratorium extension here: https://lnkd.in/eK4pupy4

School Is In is definitely keeping an eye on this: Title I, the $18 billion federal fund that supports low-income students, would disappear in a decade AND federal government’s ability to enforce civil rights laws in schools would be scaled back. Strange, these programs support families? Trump has also suggested that principals should be elected. Thoughts? #educationmatters #k12 #edchat #teacherlife #schools #education

On this day, March 12, 1956: 19 Senators and 82 Representatives Sign Southern Manifesto Opposing #Integration of Schools. By March 12, 1956, Senator Harry Byrd of Virginia convinced 101 of the 128 congressmen representing the 11 states of the old Confederacy to sign "The Southern Manifesto on Integration." In total, 19 Senators and 82 Representatives—almost one-fifth of Congress—signed their name and declared their opposition to integration. The document claimed that the U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education, which declared #raciallysegregated #publiceducation unconstitutional, constituted an abuse of power in violation of federal law. Learn more about how a campaign of massive resistance to integration by white politicians and the broader white community succeeded in keeping schools segregated for years after the decision in Brown v. Board of Education from the Equal Justice Initiative: https://ow.ly/K2BR50QRzVi

Special education advocates have filed a new state complaint against Chicago Public Schools (CPS), urging the Illinois State Board of Education to intervene over ongoing transportation issues. For four consecutive years, CPS has struggled to provide reliable bus services for students with disabilities, a requirement under their Individualized Education Programs (IEPs). The complaint, spearheaded by advocates Miriam Bhimani and Terri Smith, highlights a systemic failure to meet legal obligations, potentially denying students a free appropriate public education as guaranteed by federal law. To learn more about the challenges and the actions proposed by the state, read the full article here: [https://buff.ly/4gcBh73 ] #SpecialEducation #EducationEquity #ChicagoPublicSchools #StudentTransportation #IEP

Special education advocates have filed a new state complaint against Chicago Public Schools (CPS), urging the Illinois State Board of Education to intervene over ongoing transportation issues. For four consecutive years, CPS has struggled to provide reliable bus services for students with disabilities, a requirement under their Individualized Education Programs (IEPs). The complaint, spearheaded by advocates Miriam Bhimani and Terri Smith, highlights a systemic failure to meet legal obligations, potentially denying students a free appropriate public education as guaranteed by federal law. To learn more about the challenges and the actions proposed by the state, read the full article here: [https://buff.ly/4eooDQA] #SpecialEducation #EducationEquity #ChicagoPublicSchools #StudentTransportation #IEP

On August 31, 1966, in an ongoing battle with federal agencies and the U.S. Supreme Court, the Alabama Senate passed a law that made it illegal for public schools in the state to enter into desegregation plans with federal officials. A decade after the U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 ruling in Brown v. Board of Education declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional, many school districts throughout the South still maintained segregated public schools. In 1964, the U.S. Congress passed the Civil Rights Act, which contained a provision that required local school districts to comply with integration orders to receive federal funding. In 1966, 12 years after Brown, the U.S. Office of Education issued regulations providing guidance and standards regarding school desegregation. These regulations required segregated school districts to submit integration plans to the federal government. Noncompliant districts risked losing federal funds. In response, Governor George Wallace, whose 1963 inauguration speech had vowed to maintain "segregation forever," proposed a new state law to forbid Alabama school districts from entering into desegregation agreements with the federal Office of Education. In legislative hearings, representatives of Alabama’s teachers’ unions spoke against the bill and warned that it would risk $24 million of federal funding. Nevertheless, the Alabama Senate approved the bill on August 31, almost unanimously: only seven members voted against the measure. The Alabama House of Representatives passed the bill soon after, and Governor Wallace signed it into law on September 9. The massive resistance by the white community was largely successful in preventing the integration of schools in the South. In the five Deep South states, every single one of 1.4 million Black schoolchildren attended segregated schools until the fall of 1960. By the start of the 1964-65 school year, less than 3% of the South’s African American children attended school with white students, and in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, and South Carolina that number remained substantially below 1%. In 1967, 13 years after Brown, a report by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights observed that white violence and intimidation against Black people “continues to be a deterrent to school desegregation.”

Remember Darryl George, the boy, banned from school for his locs? Well, there's an update. Well, he was denied his request for protection. ↳ By Judge Jeffrey Brown. ↳ Reason: A delay in his appeal. I am deeply concerned. → Darryl was removed from class. → Placed on in-school suspension. → And forced to attend an off-campus program. This is NOT just a legal issue. (It's an injustice that strikes at the core of who we are as a society) This ruling raises BIG questions. 1) What do we have the Crown Act for? 2) Is the Crown Act truly protecting students' rights? 3) What message are we sending across about self-expression and cultural identity? The implications of this case go beyond Darryl's situation. (It shows that systemic biases remain rooted within our institutions) We must confront these discriminatory practices. ↳ We must demand accountability from institutions. Darryl (like every other student) deserves to learn ↳ Without the weight of discrimination.

Tristan Denley has been called the "Johnny Appleseed of dev-ed reform." From Tennessee to Georgia, and now Louisiana, Denley has pushed aside traditional multi-semester remedial classes and rolled out corequisite education at scale. But nationally, reform has stalled. What will it take to get it back on track? Our latest report insists faculty must engage deeply in the unfinished work of reforming remedial education. For this and other key strategies to complete the job, read the report: https://lnkd.in/gid3Zvnp