The Atlantic: “‘Nevada has become the bellwether for what [universal voucher] programs should look like around the country.’”
Boston Herald: “Boston schools could get a $1 million boost next year to create new food pantries, clothing closets and other support to help thousands of homeless students.”
CNN: “Much in the same way that black parents often have ‘The Talk’ with their children about how to deal with police officers, adult family members of undocumented immigrants, refugees or other children targeted by these policies will have to teach their children how to avoid conflict.”
Education Week: “Administrators, teachers, and students are now actively debating whether the district’s efforts to remake school security have gone too far or not far enough. They’re talking about what role, if any, the district’s school resource officers should play in keeping schools safe.”
The Huffington Post: “To support Black children, we must create a real agenda that prioritizes educational equity and justice for all Black students.”
National Public Radio: “The Boy Scouts of America said that it will begin accepting transgender boys who want to join its scouting programs.”
The New York Times: “The apology for the Sept. 8, 1940, killing is part of a renewed push across the American South to acknowledge the brutal mob violence that was used to enforce the system of racial segregation after Reconstruction.”
The New York Times: “At Standing Rock, the youths felt they were developing the means to overcome that trauma. The key ... was to let their history go, which they took as an almost holy responsibility: Forgive, and then take action to spare those who are coming in the future.”
The Washington Post: “The Leading Men Fellowship is one aspect of the city’s push to better serve its minority male population, a group of students who lag far behind their peers in the public schools. The program puts the recent graduates to work in a steady job, could create a seed of ambition and serves the city’s youngest students.”
The Washington Post: “The boys, who are all 16 or 17, have been sentenced to read books from a list that includes works by prominent black, Jewish and Afghan authors, write a research paper on hate speech, go to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and listen to an interview with a former student of the Ashburn Colored School, which they defaced.”
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