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Education Justice
We are working so that every Black child can have a robust and rigorous public education.
Your truth is your life You’re wasting time living any other way than in your Unapologetic, unrelenting, uncompromising, and unshakeable truth.
Samantha Callendar, "Truth"
RESOURCE LIST
Additional resources and guides for further exploring Black liberation through education justice.
Abolish Student Loans
- https://www.chicagoreporter.com/african-americans-take-on-more-debt-for-grad-school-but-the-payoff-is-also-bigger/
- https://partnershipfcc.org/affordability-blackstudents
- https://news.wttw.com/2020/04/21/illinois-expands-payment-relief-student-loan-borrowers
Funding Public Schools
- https://www.ctulocal1.org/reports/black-white-chicago-education/
- http://stand.org/illinois/policy-matters/equitable-education-funding/funding-equity-chicago-public-s%E2%80%A6
- https://thefundchicago.org/news/the-chicago-public-education-fund-releases-report-on-equity-in-chicagos-school-funding-system/
- https://www.cps.edu/about/finance/budget/
- https://abc7chicago.com/community-events/protesters-call-for-city-to-defund-chicago-police-/6383989/
Diversity in Teaching / Cultural Competent School Board
Chicago
- https://chicago.suntimes.com/2019/12/22/21030553/teacher-diversity-chicago-public-schools-hiring-retention-school-report-card-cps-ctu
- https://chicago.chalkbeat.org/2019/12/20/21112032/chicago-s-teaching-corps-is-becoming-whiter-how-the-district-hopes-to-entice-and-keep-more-teachers
- https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2019/12/16/21025029/chicago-school-board-talks-teacher-diversity-but-skeptics-remain
- https://districtadministration.com/teacher-diversity-lags-behind-diverse-students/
- Stats: https://www.cps.edu/about/stats-facts/
Innovators
- https://hechingerreport.org/an-innovative-school-leader-rethinks-education-for-kids-of-color-in-indianapolis/
- https://www.naeyc.org/resources/pubs/yc/may2018/achievement-gap
- https://www.msichicago.org/explore/whats-here/exhibits/black-creativity-innovation-studio/
- https://www.msichicago.org/explore/whats-here/exhibits/black-creativity-2020/
- https://nctresidencies.org/