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Students sick of ‘lip service’ from universities over racism

The Hechinger Report

Lourdes Torrey was only a few weeks into her first year at the University of Missouri in 2018 when she heard a white student in the dorm room next to hers use the N-word. In a state where almost one-third of residents are Black, in 2018, only 8 percent of students at the flagship university were Black and only 3 percent were Black men.

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Should rich families be allowed to fundraise a better public school education for their kids?

The Hechinger Report

The school’s PTSA had zero assets or income as of 2018, according to a local public radio report. “I It feels really good to say, ‘I believe in this and that,’” said Dawn Larson, a social justice and equity co-chair of the Green Lake PTA. “To We are a lip-service city and not everyone feels comfortable doing that.”.

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Universities try to catch up to their growing Latinx populations

The Hechinger Report

He attributes the cut to budget concerns — IU Northwest was the only campus within Indiana University’s higher education system to see a decline in appropriations from FY 2017 to 2018. Román-Lagunas said she has noticed that “the Latino student groups used to be stronger.” Debra Santiago, CEO, Excelencia in Education.

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Segregated schools are still the norm. Howard Fuller is fine with that

The Hechinger Report

My support for vouchers,” he said, “didn’t have a damn thing to do with free-market principles … it was a social justice issue to me.”. Fuller launched his chief advocacy arm for school choice, the Institute for the Transformation of Learning, housed at Marquette University, more than two decades ago. The trade-off.

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Educators: We Must Be Champions for Our Trans Students

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Despite our school’s commitment to social justice and our district’s prioritization of equity, there were still staff members who were unwilling to voice public support for all students. To put this into context, that number was just 41 bills in the whole of 2018.

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‘You can’t help but to wonder’: Crumbling schools, less money, and dismal outcomes in the county that was supposed to change everything for black children in the South

The Hechinger Report

The class of 2018 didn’t fare much better. And although white and black students make up a similar proportion of Mississippi’s student population, white students were more than twice as likely to attend one of Mississippi’s 31 A-rated school districts this year, according to 2018-19 enrollment data.

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College student voting is way up

The Hechinger Report

Credit: Yunuen Bonaparte for The Hechinger Report McAndrew gives particular credit for the rising numbers of young voters to the gun-safety organization March for Our Lives, founded by survivors of the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Parkland, Florida, that killed 17. Social media has a huge impact.