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Why Landing On The ‘Best Schools’ List Is Not Something To Celebrate
September 04, 2020 | Neema Avashia
Randolph Public School buses parked behind the high school. Randolph High School ranked 114th in Boston Magazine's most recent ranking. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)
This week, Boston Magazine released their annual list of the “Best Public High Schools in Greater Boston” — or rather, the best schools in the geographic vicinity in and around 495. The list measures 149 schools on the basis of things like class size, test scores and student-teacher ratio.
Number 1 on the list this year? Acton-Boxborough.
Number 149 on the list? Madison Park Technical Vocational High School. (Madison Park is in the Boston ...
My Turn: Separate and unequal: The problem with Pennsylvania’s public school funding
Crystal Echeverria | October 8, 2020
In 1896, the Supreme Court established separate, but “equal”, public schools for black and white students. Almost a century later in 1954, the Supreme Court struck down the doctrine of “separate but equal”, and ordered an end to school segregation. If you know anything about the landmark case of Brown vs. the Board of Education, you would know that Black students were denied the same opportunities that white students had when it came to schooling. Furthermore, if you know anything about the time before 1896, you would know that it was against the law for African American people to attend school. There ...
PURPOSELY PUNISHING PENNSYLVANIA KINDERGARTEN STUDENTS
(Harrisburg, PA) - Unless Pennsylvania Governor Wolf acts swiftly, kindergarten students at 150 school districts will remain underfunded for their entire K-12 educations. Clearly, this is punishment by zip code.
All who have eyes, all who have ears.
I see buildings burn, riots pillage, people rant, but sadly no one cares about the 800,000 kids that are short-changed $1.22 Billion every year. $1.22 Billion!
SIGN THE EQUITY FIRST PETITION:
While 350 over-funded school districts have celebrated the 2016 passage of House Bill 1552, the Basic Education Funding formula, Kindergarten students in 150 school districts won’t experience fair-fun...