NAACP To Publish Report Cards Evaluating Schools
When pressed to grade public schools' efforts to educate black children, education advocates and politicians painted a less-than-promising picture during an NAACP town hall meeting here this month.
The grades offered by the 11-member panel varied from "incomplete" to an F. The only optimism came from the 16-year-old "youth mayor" of Washington, who gave the education system a B-minus during a frank and emotional dialogue at the NAACP's Fourth Biennial Daisy Bates Education Summit.
The three-day event drew representatives from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's 2,200 chapters to discuss "Advocacy, Achievement, Accountability: A Look at Public Education in America." The summit honors the legacy of Daisy Bates, who led the NAACP Arkansas State Conference when nine black Little Rock students desegregated Central...
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