Equity-Driven • Data-Centered • Student-Focused Sharif El-Mekki: Leading With Equity and JusticeMay 16, 2019 by Robin Harris On the first day of school at Mastery Charter Shoemaker, principal Sharif El-M… WASHINGTON (May 14, 2019) – “The Education Trust stands in opposition to the President’s revised budget proposal to further raid the Pell Grant reserve to fund… It’s Teacher Appreciation Week — a time to celebrate the amazing educators across the country who work tirelessly to challenge, support, and nurture our younge… I was born and raised in the central part of the Navajo Nation in a town called Chinle, which is near the Canyon De Chelly national monument in Arizona. For mo… When Tvli Birdshead, a senior at an Oklahoma high school was denied the freedom to wear his Native American regalia to graduation this spring, he decided to fi… There are 1.5 million people in federal and state prisons and another 600,000 in local jails. More than half (54 percent) of these incarcerated adults have chi… Syrita Steib-Martin and Annie Freitas cofounded Operation Restoration, a New Orleans-based organization that helps women who have been impacted by incarceratio… For nearly six years, Reid Setzer has been at Young Invincibles, where he most recently served as director of public policy. Now, this one-time Jeopardy! runne… Tucked away in the back of a dilapidated, blue and gray building in downtown Washington lies DC Central Kitchen. It may not look like much, but the bustling so… It all started when a Catholic mother of four sons wrote a letter to the editor of the University of Notre Dame newspaper criticizing a group of young women wh… Nancy Huante-Tzintzun, Ph.D., is a scholar-activist and education equity policy advocate. Currently, she is interim director for Stockton Schools Initiative (S… While the U.S. becomes less White, and Black and Latino segments of the population rapidly expand, state economies are increasingly relying on a well-educated,…Fierce advocates for the high academic achievement of all students — particularly those of color or living in poverty.
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