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House leaders just dropped their FY26 education bill, slashing $12.1 billion (15%) in K-12 funding for public education. It guts the very programs that keep our public schools running — while boosting charter start-up/expansion to $500,000,000. What they’re cutting: Title I: –27% slashed — funding that provides targeted education services like remedial reading, with the worst impact targeting students in high-poverty schools in cities and rural communities. English Language Acquisition Grants: Gone. Title II-A (teacher training & support): Eliminated. Full-Service Community Schools: Zeroed out. Cuts of this magnitude will crowd classrooms, strip student supports, widen inequities, and push more schools into crisis — especially in rural and high-need communities. Send your letter now.

These measures touch nearly every aspect of life, from education and healthcare to public safety, property rules and support for first responders. With so many changes coming at once, Texans can expect a variety of noticeable impacts on their daily lives.

Trump’s cuts to health care, food aid, after-school programs, and education programs put millions of children at risk.

A data-driven source asking tough questions about US higher education. Featured in national publications, including The Chronicle of Higher Education.

City officials agreed to pay $150,000 to Jacqueline Craig after she and her daughter were arrested in 2016.

Four Black students allege that Denver Public Schools unlawfully tried to trademark the name of their Know Justice, Know Peace podcast.

A letter about racism by James Whitfield, the first Black principal at a mostly white Texas high school, led to him being placed on leave.

Teacher diversification is an extremely important subject in America today. Schools are mostly filled with Black and Brown students, while the teacher workforce has been predominantly white, female for decades. Studies show that ALL students, especially students of color, have more favorable learning experiences, when they engage with effective teachers of color. Diversifying the teacher pipeline has not been an easy task, as most view the concept as taboo. In order to change the outcomes for our most disadvantaged students, it is imperative that we provide and sustain a more diverse teacher workforce. Student achievement and societal contributions heavily rely on our ability to present America’s students a cultural mosaic of teachers that mirror them. The solutions are accessible, we must commit to doing the work!

White America has always had an interest in the education of Black folks, but never for the purposes of our freedom.

Ardoin v. Robinson could foreshadow a new age of widespread racial gerrymandering.

The school board hopefuls were described in a ProPublica story detailing how Cecelia Lewis was attacked in both Cherokee County and neighboring Cobb County by white parents making baseless claims.

The masks, reading “Stop killing Black people,” were meant to quell the spread of the coronavirus, which has disproportionately affected Black Americans.

The main concern of black people right now isn’t whether they’re standing three or six feet apart, but whether their sons, husbands, brothers and fathers will be murdered by cops.

Want to end police brutality against Black people? To paraphrase Angela Davis, it's not enough to *not* be racist — you need to be antiracist.

Disparities and Discrimination in Student Discipline by Race and Family Income is a new study that reinforces previous research. You can find posts about all that previous research here.

Roy Allela, a 25-year-old engineer and inventor from Kenya, has found the ultimate solution to bridging the communication barrier between...

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Authorities initially said they had killed the person who shot an 18-year-old at a mall on Black Friday. The family of Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford Jr., son of a veteran, and police later agreed he was not the shooter.

A massive new federal report describes a country in ecological collapse and infrastructural ruin by 2100. They released it on Black Friday.

The University of Texas at San Antonio has said the student has "elected not to file a formal complaint of discrimination."

It’s not your imagination: President Trump, who regularly makes a point of personally insulting public figures who challenge or displease him in any way, taps into an especially toxic well of vitriol when aiming his attacks at black Americans, Errol Louis writes.

The instant I finished Emily Suvada’s This Mortal Coil and This Cruel Design, I wanted to get these books into the hands of every teenager I know. The trilogy rivals The Hunger Games for its whirlwind life-or-death drama, while giving the carefully crafted science of Orphan Black a run for its money.

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Hate showed what it is truly capable of in America this week.