Via: defendernetwork.com The Teachers’ Union is calling it the dumbest move yet by the Houston Independent School District. FOX 26 News has learned only weeks after laying off over 900 HISD teachers, officials are now looking to hire more teachers. On Monday, officials with the district posted openings for nearly 300 teaching positions. Teachers’ Union […]
Historically underrepresented groups such as African-Americans, Hispanics and Native Americans are eligible for millions of dollars in grants. Of particular note are those fields that have been traditionally lacking diversity, such as the sciences and business. There are many organizations willing to help out in these trying times. The Multicultural Advertising Intern Program through the […]
Word spread fast about a certain Mr. Bernard Freeman, aka rapper Bun B, co-teaching a university course this semester with professor Anthony Pinn. What’s so notable about that? Well, the course is Religion and Hip-Hop, something in which the Port Arthur native has an inside track, and it is being taught at Houston’s Rice University. […]
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HOUSTON — A popular assistant Wheatley High School principal, who had been transferred out of the school, will be transferred back, Wheatley High School parents said Thursday. It has been a tumultuous two weeks at Wheatley since Sandra Walker’s departure. First, students defied administrators, leaving class and taking to the streets to protest Walker’s reassignment. […]
AUSTIN — A school curriculum teaching children about violent Black Panthers while playing down Ku Klux Klan violence against blacks is not only inaccurate but discriminatory, the Texas NAACP and LULAC said Monday in a joint complaint filed with the U.S. Department of Education. Read More:
NASA is looking for underserved and underrepresented college students for a program that allows them to design, build, fly and evaluate gravity experiments. http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/moving_america_news/23855
By Nick Anderson Black male students trail their white counterparts in school by alarming margins and for reasons that are often not well understood, according to a report released Tuesday. The report from the Council of the Great City Schools, an advocacy organization for urban education, suggests that poverty is not the only factor behind […]
A private parochial school that targets the poorest of the poor and charges as little as $3 a month for tuition, the Yellowstone Academy in Houston’s Third Ward doesn’t exactly follow the standard recipe for success in the competitive education market. But eight years into its mission, Yellowstone has found a way to not only […]
The House passed a bill Tuesday afternoon providing $26.1 billion to cash-strapped state governments, and preventing roughly 161,000 teachers and 158,000 public works employees from being laid off. The vote was 247-161. Democratic leadership has been under tremendous pressure to pass legislation before the start of the school year policy-wise, and before the November elections […]
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