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By Michaelah Montgomery  | In 2007, Joe Biden said that schools perform worse if they have more Black students. “Less than one percent of the population of Iowa is African-American. Whereas, what is in Washington, […]

By Dr. Jennifer Brown – Executive Director, KIPP Public Schools Jacksonville – “In this country, teaching Black people to read has always been an act of social justice.” Nearly 15 months ago I spoke those […]

By Nate Monroe Florida Times-Union – During the week Florida re-opened its public schools amid a pandemic with no end in sight, Duval County Superintendent Diana Greene rolled up her sleeves and spent most of the […]

By Jodi Yonder  – The value of public schools has never been felt more acutely than after the Coronavirus pandemic forced classrooms to close and sent our kids home to learn from home. The impact […]

By J.L. Carter, Sr. Several Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have quietly changed admissions policies to better reflect diversity in gender identification and sexual classification over the last decade. In the last two years, […]