While there is no silver bullet, the funding and real accountability measures in the proposal can help ensure schools address persistent opportunity and achievement gaps for Black students.
It doesn’t work to expect Black and brown girls to simply “fit in” and mold to existing environments that weren’t designed for them — they need to feel seen and valued.
As Oakland Unified School District's teachers strike, an analysis of salary data shows teachers among the lowest paid statewide and in the San Francisco/East Bay area.
Just one experience of being isolated is enough for me to contemplate leaving the classroom. We need to do more to ensure teachers of color are coming into and staying in the classroom.
Two years after Los Angeles Unified's launch of the Black Student Achievement Plan, critics say that there’s still much work to be done by the district and its schools.
Wilder’s Preparatory Academy in Inglewood boasts test score results that reflect performance far above that of the state average for all schools regardless of racial composition.
A coalition of Black education and civil rights groups has come up with a plan that would focus additional state funding directly on Black student achievement — a goal the Newsom administration would tackle by boosting funding to low-income schools rather than any one racial group.