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African American students
High-needs students
January 15, 2020

San Francisco Bay Area parents declare state of emergency over district’s failure to educate black children

Parents want the district to allocate $7.2 million to improve services for the district’s 5,000 African-American students.

Theresa Harrington
College & Careers
February 20, 2019

California’s black students lag in college completion despite some gains

With only a third of black adults earning a degree, the report urges colleges to get more students to come back and finish.

Larry Gordon
Discipline
January 22, 2019

Stockton Unified settles state complaint over discriminatory policing practices

State investigators also found that the district violated students' Fourth Amendment rights and the rights of students with disabilities. The district agreed to five years of state monitoring.

David Washburn
Math and Science
May 22, 2018

Latino, African-Americans have less access to math, science classes, new data show

New data from the Office of Civil Rights shows wide gaps in advanced math and science enrollment.

Carolyn Jones
Local Control Funding Formula
April 17, 2018

African-American students would get extra funding under proposal before Legislature

Bill would modify the Local Control Funding Formula to add money for the lowest-performing student group; it could violate the law barring preferential treatment based on race or ethnicity.

John Fensterwald
Student Well-Being
March 15, 2018

Oakland Unified initiative for African-American girls follows years of focus on the boys

Like the boys’ initiative, the goal is to boost cultural pride and academic performance, lower suspension and dropout rates and create greater understanding of the students’ singular experiences and needs.

Lee Romney
College & Careers
July 25, 2017

Tech nonprofit helping African-American teens get ahead in coding

Hidden Genius Project, among others, provides free programming classes to underrepresented groups.

Carolyn Jones
Testing and Accountability
July 23, 2017

New class leads to big gains in number of girls, minorities taking AP computer science exams

A new AP Computer Science Principles class focuses on the “big ideas” behind computer science.

Carolyn Jones
College Readiness
June 14, 2017

California urged to improve college access for young men of color

The high school graduation and college attendance rates for black, Latino, Native American and Pacific Islander young men is well below that of whites and Asians. A new study by the Education Trust-West urges barriers be lifted and more support offered for those minority male students.

Larry Gordon