by Beth Holmes | Dec 20, 2021 | News, Teacher Issues
The Chicago Board of Education has reached a $9.25 million settlement in a discrimination case over a series of layoffs that took place in 2012-14. In those years, the CBE enacted “turnaround” procedures as a matter of policy at 18 schools which were not meeting goals...
by Sarah Green | Oct 17, 2016 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
While a growing majority of children in public education are students of color, about 80 percent of teachers are white. It’s important that teachers have connections to their students, and that connection is very much improved when a student has access to teachers who...