Month: January 2019

• JVH on JCS Show: Remembering MLK Jr.

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  January 21, 2019

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  African Americans

  Julian Vasquez Heilig and John C Scott remember MLK Jr and discuss the state of society today. Conversation is followed by MLK’s final speech that called for unity, economic actions, boycotts, and nonviolent protest, while challenging the United States to live up to its ideals. For more conversation in the media click here. For more…

  

• Reblogged: HISD won’t tolerate a hostile takeover of brown and black schools

  4–5 minutes

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  January 16, 2019

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  African Americans, Charter Schools, Latina/os

  Other than the situation in Los Angeles USD. I believe that Houston is currently our most pressing urban district situation. The Republicans in Texas Legislature would like to take over the democratically-elected majority minority school board and turn Houston ISD into a charter district. I have a special place in my heart for Houston ISD…

  

• Does @EducationNext still get it WRONG on Gülen charters?

  5–8 minutes

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  January 15, 2019

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  African Americans, Charter Schools

  I am glad that Harvard’s EducationNext changed the original language in this piece about the Gulen charter schools and Turkey that incorrectly argued that the NAACP had rescinded its call for a charter school moratorium by stating that it had not been “renewed.” They have now taken that language out of the article online, but they…