Education Week — Three White House commissions that address education issues for black, Hispanic, and Asian American and Pacific Islander students say they haven’t met since President Donald Trump took office, and that his administration has ignored their attempts to reach out. They may not be around much longer.
That’s the important takeaway from Education Week’s Corey Mitchell’s story this week on three presidential advisory commissions on educational excellence. Their charter is also set to expire tomorrow. They were founded in 1990 under President George H.W. Bush. Here’s the latest:
Appointees to the African-American and Hispanic commissions, many of whom are educators, helped launch President Barack Obama’s My Brother’s Keeper initiative, which sought to improve education and expand opportunities for black, Latino and Native American boys. The program lives on as a nonprofit and recently merged with the Obama Foundation.
“The commissions were important places for us to reach out to these communities and engage people around issues that were important to them,” said Roberto Rodríguez, who worked in the White House as one of Obama’s top education advisers…
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