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Schools Fail Black Students, Why Are We Silent?

Larry AubryJuly 20, 2016

(The mission of the Black Community, Clergy and Labor Alliance (BCCLA) is to develop a Black united front, which has not happened on a broad or sustained manner since the civil rights era. BCCLA’s education committee is meeting with LAUSD Superintendent Michelle King to help ensure Black students receive the attention and resources necessary for developing their full potential.) In a previous column, Schools Fail Black Students, So Why Are We Silent? (Nov. 2008), I described barriers in LAUSD that contributed to a failure of the district to properly educate Black students. Substantially, those same barriers exist today. They underscored,

Education News

Study explores how black men find success in college

Errin Haines Whack, Associated PressFebruary 10, 2016

James Wanda, a senior at Pennsylvania’s Lafayette College and one of two black computer science majors in his class, says at times he has felt pressure to succeed not just for himself, but for his entire race.

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Number of Black Teachers Rapidly Declines as Minority Student Population Increases

Robert Bess, Special to the NNPA News Wire from the Westside GazetteOctober 15, 2015

The number of minority teachers has declined since 1987, even though the minority student population has grown 17 percent over the same time period. (Stock Photo) The minority population has grown tremendously since the year 2000. According to the Census Bureau, the Hispanic population growth is due to U.S. births–and Asian population growth is due primarily to immigration since 2012. That alone has fueled a 5 percent population growth in the overall population of these groups nationwide, according to the Pew Research Center. Although there are probably many byproducts of this population growth, one of major concern is the effect