Tag: NAACP

• Please support @NAACP Thunderclap today!

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  August 8, 2017

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  African Americans, Charter Schools

  The NAACP is seeking 500 supporters for its High Quality Education Thunderclap! Will you join them today with your Facebook and/or Twitter? The Thunderclap reads: “Call for resource equity. Accountability for charters. Moratorium still warranted. #QualityEd #NAACP http://thndr.me/RsJkGu” Join the Thunderclap ASAP here. The purpose of their message is to highlight the NAACP TaskForce Report on…

  

• Did NAACP roll back call for charter moratorium?

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  July 30, 2017

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  African Americans, Charter Schools

  There appears to be an increasing number of articles saying that the NAACP has taken a softer tone or even rolled back the 2016 call for a charter moratorium. In this blog post I’ll set the record straight based on my personal perspectives. On the first point, my read is that the leaders and members…

  

• Roundup of NAACP’s Harder Stance on Charter Schools

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  July 28, 2017

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  Charter Schools

  I just returned from the 2017 NAACP national convention in Baltimore. Two important events occurred. The first I’m not going to talk about here on Cloaking Inequity until after the NAACP National Board meeting in the fall— I learned my lesson last year :). Second, the NAACP’s Task Force on High Quality Education released a…

  

• .@NAACP says contact Senator and Reps about DeVos and Trump #NAACP108

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  July 24, 2017

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  Charter Schools

  I am in Baltimore at the NAACP’s 2017 National Convention. https://www.instagram.com/p/BW5QniOlwDL/?taken-by=professorjvh https://www.instagram.com/p/BW38lGulGSv/?taken-by=professorjvh https://twitter.com/ProfessorJVH/status/889258199030927360 https://twitter.com/ProfessorJVH/status/889194282925666306 https://twitter.com/ProfessorJVH/status/889120240935858176 https://twitter.com/ProfessorJVH/status/889119669101219841 https://www.instagram.com/p/BW0ekMmF9iv/?taken-by=professorjvh https://www.instagram.com/p/BW0NxaGlHsj/?taken-by=professorjvh Much will happen here that you will probably see in the news soon. I believe the NAACP is reinvigorated to take on education issues. More info very soon. But for now, the NAACP’s National Education Department recently…

  

• Alert: @NAACP formally opposing @BetsyDeVos

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  January 26, 2017

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  African Americans, Charter Schools, Wisdom

  During School Choice Week a white Texas governor tried to convince the public that school choice, including school vouchers, are civil rights. However, the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organizations appears to disagree with that premise by formally opposing Betsy DeVos, the school choice queen, for US Secretary of Education. (For more on Betsy DeVos click here). It…