COVID-19
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Dr. Ladson-Billings Earns 2020 NNPA Leadership in Education Award
2020 NNPA NATIONAL LEADERSHIP AWARDS — “We have COVID, we have anti-Black, we have the very tenuous economy and we…
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COMMENTARY: Coronavirus – threat, opportunity or both?
NEW TRI-STATE DEFENDER — "There is no denying that virtual technology will continue to play a prominent role in our…
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Amazon to provide computer science education for more than 550,000 K-12 students amid COVID-19 pandemic
ATLANTA VOICE — Amazon’s funding will support more than 1,000 elementary schools and more than 4,000 middle and high schools…
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OP-ED: Black School Leaders Matter
According to the PPI report, seven out of ten surveyed teachers in the U.S. reported they had not been properly…
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OP-ED: What I Learned About Teaching and Learning During the Pandemic
Aside from all the Zoom tools and strategies we had to implement and the numerous learning platforms we had to…
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COMMENTARY: Coronavirus – threat, opportunity or both?
NEW TRI-STATE DEFENDER — We all recognize that schools are special and unique places in our society. It is where…
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Shaka Rawls, Principal of Leo High School puts His Students and Community First
CHICAGO DEFENDER — An accomplished educator, Shaka Rawls is a LEO High School alumni who returned to LEO in 2016,…
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The Los Angeles Public Library and Dynasty United Youth Association Team Up for A New Virtual Tutoring and Job Preparation Program for South L.A. Students Affected by COVID School Closures
LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — “There is nothing more important than the development of our community’s young people,” said Los Angeles…
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As schools reopen amid COVID-19, teachers worry about their mental health
By Natalie Krebs, Indianapolis Recorder Teaching is already challenging enough without a pandemic shaking up how the classroom operates. As…
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AfterSchool HQ provides access to learning opportunities for Indiana students
By Alison Banks, The Indianapolis Recorder Now more than ever, after-school programs for K-12 students are a top concern in…
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Virtual Back to School Drive Gives Parents Relief
By Michelle Richarson Special to the AFRO 2020 has been a year of epic highs and tremendous lows in part…
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2 Birmingham schools get free technology through Verizon initiative
BIRMINGHAM TIMES — Parents of students at Hudson K-8 and Wilkerson Middle School picked up free iPads for their children…
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3 Teachers have died of COVID-19 weeks after school re-openings
ROLLING OUT — Since schools have opened in late August and early September, three teachers have died from COVID-19, according to CNN.
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A Call to Community on a New School Year
THE AFRO — It’s educators who, with no notice, drove their instruction on-line, and school leaders who stayed in touch…
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Alphas Provide Masks for N.S. Schools and Agencies
Just in time for the opening of the school year, local members of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. followed in…
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Youngest NOLA Public School Students Set to Return to Classrooms Starting Next Week
NEW ORLEANS TRIBUNE — School Superintendent Henderson Lewis Jr. confirmed that Pre-K- through fourth grade students will start returning to…
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‘WORKING SO FAR’
DAYTONA TIMES — Volusia County Schools has created a COVID-19 data dashboard to inform parents, students, staff and the community…
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SCS weathers all-virtual opening
NEW TRI-STATE DEFENDER — Last Friday ahead of the first day of school, SCS Supt. Joris Ray encouraged principals, teachers, students and…
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Back to School Giveaway Still Meeting the Challenge of Pandemic Restrictions
JACKSONVILLE FREE PRESS — Over 300 stuffed book bags were gifted to 150 families with free groceries. Also on the…
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