Government Junior High Tradition 
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 18, 2016
So Belue started a new policy during the 1972-73 school year: students would have to elect one white student and one black student at large to student government, as well as to the homecoming court. It’s better to learn when you’re in an uncomfortable environment,” said Zada Perry, a ninth-grader at Sumner Hill Junior High.
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 10, 2018
And government oversight is lacking. She spent junior high and most of her freshman year at a mid-sized public school, earning A’s and B’s in algebra, her favorite class, and playing on the volleyball team. But she was hoping that her cousins would foster her, and she could attend the high school near them.
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The Hechinger Report
JUNE 27, 2020
In mid-May, school officials hosted a Zoom version of a King tradition — the class roll call. Along with her determination to re-invent herself, she set lofty academic goals: She wanted to become president of Cohen’s student government and be named class valedictorian with a 4.0 Credit: Kathleen Flynn for The Hechinger Report.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 10, 2023
In 2019, the president of the IFF called public schools “the most virulent form of socialism (and indoctrination thereto) in America today,” adding, “I don’t think government should be in the education business.”) I got a superintendency without having to go through the traditional process of doing it.”
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 3, 2019
Tulsa Public Schools Superintendent Deborah Gist presents a Golden Apple Award to Dr. Abraham Kamara at Memorial Junior High School. She made it as an eighth-grader at Tulsa’s Nimitz Junior High School for a project researching career options. Four union members running for state government won their primaries last year.
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