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August 19, 2020
OPINION: Black children and youth are falling behind disproportionately on their education in the classroom and its impact is devastating.
school classroom theGrio.com
November 20, 2019
A new documentary delves into the reasons Black girls are several times more likely to face suspension or expulsion in…
September 25, 2019
Schools in parts of the Bahamas that weren't as badly damaged by Hurricane Dorian are still closed because of a…
Classroom theGrio.com
September 9, 2019
With a single school leading the way Denver is attempting to turn around its record on integrating schools, which has…
Schools
April 8, 2019
Although the number of students of color are the majority in the New York schools,they are far behind when it…
Oakland
February 22, 2019
Teachers in the district become the fourth in the nation within the last two months to leave the classrooms demanding…
Hair
February 19, 2019
The politics of Black hair seem to stretch around the globe as schools in the country adopt a policy against…
Schools
December 4, 2018
NYC wants to give Black and Hispanic children a chance to get into its specialized schools, but resistance is coming…
Boone
August 21, 2018
Students at Orr Elementary learned the racist history of the man their school was named for and lobbied to name…
bullying
May 22, 2018
A 12-year-old Sacramento, Calif.,-area Black boy told his local school board last week that he has been thrown to the…
Texas police training teachers to use guns thegrio.com
March 13, 2018
[griojw id=”jzhAC0vw” playerid=”GqX43ZoG”] Hide your kids! Some 16 teachers in Irving, Texas, took a class and loaded up on an
Gun School thegrio.com
February 26, 2018
Donald Trump would like us to carry guns--"us" being educators. We don’t need guns. We need the tools to do our…
January 25, 2017
During his run for President, Donald Trump promised black America a “new deal” with a vision of “safe communities, great
March 12, 2016
Today, a student in America can go from Kindergarten to college and never have one teacher of color. In a
March 10, 2016
On Wednesday, Newark ordered 30 schools- almost half of its school buildings- to shut down their water fountains after lead…
March 21, 2015
theGrio REPORT - Thursday morning, Fox News’ morning show “Fox & Friends” interviewed two white Virginia parents, Rebecca and Charles,…
March 18, 2015
theGrio REPORT - Joe DiFilippo, a vice principal at a middle school in Fresno, California, has been placed on leave…
January 8, 2015
Three members of the South Carolina legislature proposed a bill that would require educators to devote time to teaching the
June 25, 2014
MSNBC -- Hundreds of mostly poor minority students who used a controversial Missouri law to transfer out of failing schools…
May 21, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - First Lady Michelle Obama said she was beyond thrilled to introduce the first annual White House Turn…