[Ypsi community activist and Southside resident Bryan Foley, seen here in a photo by Doug Coombe taken at Parkridge Community Center, will be on a December 15 panel hosted by On The Ground Ypsilanti about “Ypsi’s rich past, and visions for a vibrant future.”] Earlier this year, the folks at Issues Media Group, having identified […]
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Reflecting on the first five months of On The Ground Ypsi, and the future of this little city of ours
Posted in Mark's Life, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged activism, Ann Arbor News, art, Brianna Kelly, Bryan Foley, Concentrate, David Rutledge, Decky Alexander, Doug Coombe, future of journalism, gentrification, International Village, Issues Media Group, journalism, Kingdom Builders, Landline Creative Labs, Lynne Settles, MLive, news desert, On The Ground Ypsi, Parkridge Community Center, Patrick Dunn, Paul Schutt, photos of Mark, sense of place, sex cat, sexy photos of Mark, Ypsilanti Freighthouse 8 Comments
Republicans introduce bill to replace 1965 legislation that guarantees free and equitable public education for all with a national voucher program intended to kill public education as we know it
On January 23rd of this year, two weeks before billionaire turned anti-public education crusader Betsy DeVos was sworn in as Secretary of Education, Congressman Steve King of Iowa introduced HR 610, a bill which, if passed into law, would replace Lyndon Johnson’s landmark 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) with something that King and […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Education, Uncategorized Also tagged 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Bible, call to action, charter schools, dismantling of public education, Education and Workforce Committee, equality, ESEA, Free Appropriate Public Education, homelessness, homeschool, HR 610, IDEA, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, Iowa, LBJ, Lyndon Johnson, Mike Bishop, Minneapolis Start Tribune, National School Lunch Program, Network for Public Education, Nevada, nutrition, pledge allegiance, poverty, private school, privatization, racism, religious extremism, School Choice Act, School Lunch Initiative, school lunches, school vouchers, Steve King, Tim Walberg, war on poverty 17 Comments
Ypsi School Board’s Dr. Celeste Hawkins on race, class, segregation, and the prospect of a merger with Ann Arbor Public Schools
A few days ago, I posted something here about the findings of a study on affordable housing commissioned by Washtenaw County. The published report, as you may recall, didn’t paint a very pretty picture. Our communities, according to the authors of the study, are rapidly becoming segregated, with less-well-off people, especially people of color, quickly […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Education, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged affordable housing, Celeste Hawkins, poverty, public education, race and poverty, racism, regional cooperation, school consolidation, segregation, social justice, Washtenaw County, Washtenaw County's Affordable Housing Needs Assessment, Whitmore Lake, Ypsilanti Community Schools, Ypsilanti School Board 18 Comments