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Just and Fair Schools Fund Newsletter: August 2012
The Just and Fair Schools Fund (JFSF) supports grassroots organizing initiatives that work to eliminate harsh school discipline policies and practices – and that uphold the right to education for all youth. Our newsletter shares updates on parent-, youth-, and congregation-led victories, partner spotlights, news,…
Author: Just and Fair Schools Fund
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Just and Fair Schools Fund Newsletter: July 2012
The Just and Fair Schools Fund (JFSF) at Public Interest Projects supports grassroots organizing initiatives that work to eliminate harsh school discipline policies and practices – and that uphold the right to education for all youth. Our newsletter shares updates on parent-, youth-, and congregation-led victories,…
Author: Just and Fair Schools Fund
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Just and Fair Schools Fund Newsletter: May 2012
The Just and Fair Schools Fund supports grassroots organising initiatives that work to eliminate harsh school discipline policies and practices – and that uphold the right to education for all youth. Our newsletter shares updates on parent- and youth-led victories, partner spotlights, news, and resources to promote positive…
Author: Just and Fair Schools Fund
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Trio Make History at Gender Studies Programme
By Elizabeth Roberts Three Bermudian women made history by being the first from the Island to attend a prestigious gender studies programme in Barbados. Elaine Williams, Deborah Bradford and Robyn Skinner spent all of July on the intensive course at the Caribbean Institute for Gender…
Author: Royal Gazette
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Are Well-Off Progressives Standing in the Way of a Real Movement for Economic Justice?
By Alyssa Battistoni Many progressives are affluent and well-educated. Does their elite status stand in the way of a movement to fight attacks on the working class? Over the past few years, it’s become an article of faith among progressives that we’re living through a…
Author: AlterNet
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Why Movements Matter
Paradigm-shifting elections don’t shift paradigms if there aren’t corresponding social movements for change. By VIVIEN LABATON AND GARA LAMARCHE One thing we now know with certainty, more than two years into Barack Obama’s presidency, is that change is an uphill battle. We’re already defending hard-won gains on…
Author: The American Prospect
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The Power of the People
The calling of Gavin Smith and the Chewstick movement WRITTEN BY COOPER STEVENSON | PHOTOGRAPHY BY: SCOTT TUCKER Chewstick founder Gavin Djata Smith and Carly Lodge There is a corps of Bermudian creatives that, every Saturday night, makes its way into Hamilton to gather…
Author: The Bermudian
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It’s Time to End Zero Tolerance in Schools: A Call To Action
It is too early to know whether the current wave of school reforms in the United States will lead to lasting improvements in student achievement. But it is not too early to note that many of these reforms have a troubling consequence: a doubling-down on…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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The Time Is Right to End ‘Zero Tolerance’ in Schools
By Gara LaMarche It is too early to know whether the current wave of school reforms will lead to lasting improvements in student achievement. But it is not too early to note that many of these reforms have a troubling consequence: a doubling-down on harsh, ineffective…
Author: Education Week
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First Anniversary of Health Care Reform: A Look Forward and Back
One year ago on 23 March 2010, President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law, culminating a tireless campaign by Health Care for America Now (HCAN), funded in part by The Atlantic Philanthropies. In honour of health care reform’s first…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies
