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September 24, 2025
Parents, alumni, and educators say shuttering schools adds trauma to Black neighborhoods already struggling with displacement.
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January 31, 2023
Public schools in West Virginia may soon be required to display the phrase “In God We Trust” in every building…
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August 20, 2022
The Mississippi school district was accused of preventing Olecia James from becoming class salutatorian due to fears of "white flight."
April 13, 2017
LeBron James is setting up a new school for at-risk kids, called the "I Promise School."
July 22, 2015
theGrio REPORT - Every year the student chorus of Public School 22 in Staten Island, N.Y. performs a special song…
May 23, 2014
MSNBC -- A 7-year-old Philadelphia public school student died Wednesday after falling ill at a school where no nurse was…
April 26, 2014
MSNBC --The dramatic rise of charter schools in urban communities over the past decade has been fraught with debate, controversy…
October 15, 2013
MSNBC - Following the closing of 23 schools in Philadelphia at the end of last school year, many students are…
August 15, 2012
NEW YORK - Ninety-five percent of arrests made in New York City public schools in the last school year were…
March 15, 2012
More recently, a growing number of black families are also turning their backs on the public school system...
September 13, 2010
MALDEN, Mass. (AP) - Massachusetts education officials say the state's black public high school students are outperforming their SAT-taking peers…
August 26, 2010
theGRIO VIDEO - This fall, more then 70 percent of New Orleans public school students will attend charter schools...
August 23, 2010
WASHINGTON - The school is being touted as being an environmentally friendly "green" school...
August 23, 2010
DETROIT (AP) - Wayne State graduates fewer than one in 10 African-American students while success for their white counterparts is…
May 4, 2010
OPINION - We cannot expect the status quo--which got us to this horrible place--to close the achievement gap and get…
February 22, 2010
From The Washington Post - Although three-quarters of the nation's estimated 2 million home-schoolers identify themselves as Christian, the number…
January 19, 2010
From The Baltimore Sun - WASHINGTON - President Obama, delivering a schoolhouse pitch for a $1.35-billion expansion of his signature…
January 5, 2010
DENVER (AP) -- Black and Latino children in Colorado schools are more likely than whites to face harsh punishments such…