Today’s hot news in education is based on The Thomas B. Fordham Institute report on Student-Teacher Race Match in Charter and Traditional Public Schools . Charter schools are hiring and retaining more Black male teachers, but like Charter advocate Kenny Knight said, we’re still in crisis regarding traditional public schools! The TBFI report reflects how charter schools are progressively showing…
Author: Jason B. Allen
Black Boys at Drew Charter Have the Best Squad…in Golf
Beyoncé has people across the world pulling together their squads to give the best rendition of the Before I Let Go Challenge. But, the icon inspired a group of students in Atlanta to assemble for a slightly different challenge. The students at a local charter school decided to take their squad all the way to the state championship. The Charles…
Black Children Drink from the Lead Water Foundation
It is bad enough that we still are having to fight for an equitable education for Black children in American schools. Now, we have to fight to ensure that the water Black children are drinking in school isn’t killing them. If Black children can’t even get clean water in schools, how far have we really come? There is a water…
Black Charter School Leader Kenny Knight Says We Are In A Crisis!
Before his sudden passing earlier this month, I featured Dr. Kenny Knight, Dean of Students, Bright Futures Academy. He shared his thoughts on national shortage of teachers and how we as Black male teachers are the solution. We are experiencing a national state of emergency. The crisis is not the wall for border control, but it’s the wall around education…
Why Didn’t You Stay?
Due to the strained and poor relationship between police officers and the Black community, students are asking Black boys; slain to violence at the hands of police, gangs and stray bullets, why didn’t you stay? Black boys are disappearing right in front of our eyes and it’s becoming commonplace. As the Nation celebrates the Union soldiers of the Civil War,…
Are Georgia Schools Cheating Black Boys?
Prosecutors in Georgia wanted to send a clear message that cheating children is not tolerated. After the exposure of the Atlanta Cheating Scandal, Black Atlanta educators were arrested and jailed for cheating Black children on a standardized test. The sad reality is, children of color have been cheated out of a fair and equitable education well before Brown v. Board…
Black Boys Raised by a Single Mom Can Win!
As a single mother, Tonya Winters Buford successful raised three Black Kings. Although not easy, her sons attended three different grade schools in different areas. While this was not easy, it was not impossible. Black moms are making the possible happen for their Black sons to succeed. It’s not an option, it’s necessary to do whatever it takes for our…