President Trump and Betsy Devos have acknowledged that we have a huge issue with our American Education System. Their solution is to give $250 million to private school voucher programs which to some certainly deserves a standing ovation! A standing ovation in their eyes because we are on the road to making America great again right? Or… is the plan to…
Tag: Civil Rights
Alisha Thomas Morgan on Running for Office at 22, the NAACP and Sundays With the Real Housewives
At 23 years old Alisha Thomas Morgan became the first African-American to represent Cobb County in the Georgia House of Representatives. During her 12 years of service, as a legislator and mom, Morgan championed the expansion of school choice options for Georgia parents. In 2015, Morgan became executive director/superintendent of Ivy Preparatory Academies, an all-girls charter network servicing metro Atlanta…
Arne Duncan to Trump and DeVos: We Cannot Stop Protecting Our Most Vulnerable Students
In AJC’s Get Schooled blog hosted by Maureen Downey, former Education Secretary Arne Duncan pushes back on the Trump’s administration call to leave enforcement of federal civil rights laws to states. Duncan notes that while Trump has claimed education to be “the civil rights issue of our time,” leaving it up to states to protect civil rights will not hold…