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State Rep Mary Flowers is urging a community group to sue Chicago Public Schools for not including black history as part of their regular curriculum; which violates a 22 year-old state law.

A 15 year-old Chicago student was allegedly strip-searched at his high school last month. His outraged parents plan to file suit against Chicago Public Schools. How could school officials ever deem a strip search appropriate?

Although he was handcuffed, searched, and then put in the back of a patrol car, police and student officials are claiming that a Houston-area high school student was rushed to the hospital after shooting himself.

After only 17 months on the job, Jean-Claude Brizard has agreed to step down as CEO of Chicago Public Schools. He will be replaced by Barbara Byrd-Bennett. She will be the 6th CEO of Chicago Public Schools since former Mayor Daley changed the school structure with his takeover in 1995.

According to a report from the NYCLU, ninety-five percent of arrests made in NYC public schools in the last school year were of black or Latino students.

A coalition of Chicago Public School students protested outside of Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s office on Tuesday, demanding that the city implement disciplinary policies that don’t send black and Latino students down a path to prison.

Six year-old Salecia Johnson was handcuffed by police officers after throwing a tantrum at her kindergarten. Salecia’s mother has started an online petition, demanding that the arrest be removed from Salecia’s record, and an end to the use of police in school discipline. Learn more at BlackYouthProject.com!

I recently learned of a charter high school, Dohn Community High School, in Ohio that actually PAYS its students to attend. Seniors can receive $25 a week while younger students receive $10 a week in VISA gift cards for coming to class every day, beingon time and behaving well. $5 of the weekly amount is […]

According to a recent report, the Chicago Public School System’s dependence on the Chicago Police Department to control students is pushing a disturbingly high number of juveniles into the criminal justice system. Instead of in-house consequences, like a suspension, waves of students are literally being sent to the big house! Read more at BlackYouthProject.com / @BlackYouthProj

  The social and economic implications of the quality education that children in the United States of America receive ,while not absolute, are critical in determining their future trajectories. The institution that children come into contact with the most in their prepubescent, formative years outside of their communities are schools. From both an operational and […]

Can you imagine being five years old and having three cops bend you over a desk, handcuff you and then carry you out of your school in handcuffs? Can you imagine being face down on the floor, hands behind you, some cops knee on your neck; then to have that knee migrate to your back […]

Scuffle at Meeting over NC School Resegregation Associated Press, July 21, 2010 Protesters and police scuffled Tuesday at a school board meeting in North Carolina over claims that a new busing system would resegregate schools, roiling racial tensions reminiscent of the 1960s. Nineteen people were arrested, including the head of state NAACP chapter who was […]