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<\/a><\/p>\nToday kicks off the Black Lives Matter Week of Action in Schools\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0(February 5-10). According to the Rethinking Schools<\/a>, this particular event stems from some action out of Seattle, WA in 2016. The demands of the Black Lives Matter at School national movement are:<\/p>\n End Zero Tolerance, and Implement Restorative Justice.<\/em><\/p>\n Hire More Black Teachers in our Schools.<\/em><\/p>\n Black History\/Ethnic Studies Mandated K-12.<\/em><\/p>\n The demands are related to major parts of the national Movement for Black for Lives<\/a> platform, including a federal right to education (Invest\/Divest) and an end to school privatization\/charter schools, school closures, and mayoral-controlled school boards (Community Control), all issues we are grappling with in Hartford, Connecticut. Here are the two statements on these issues from the national\u00a0platform<\/a>.<\/p>\n Today kicks off the Black Lives Matter Week of Action in Schools\u00a0\u00a0(February 5-10). According to the Rethinking Schools, this particular event stems from some action out of Seattle, WA in 2016. The demands of the Black Lives Matter at School national movement are: End Zero Tolerance, and Implement Restorative Justice. Hire More Black Teachers … Continue reading Black Lives Matter Week of Action in Schools: More Black\/Ethnic History, Teachers, and Restorative Justice<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":849,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[75],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14388"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/849"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14388"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14393,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14388\/revisions\/14393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}A Constitutional Right at the State and Federal Level to a Fully Funded Education Which Includes a Clear Articulation of the Right To: A Free Education For All, Special Protections For Queer and Trans Students, Wrap Around Services, Social Workers, Free Health Services, A Curriculum that Acknowledges and Addresses Student\u2019s Material and Cultural Needs, Physical Activity and Recreation, High Quality Food, Free Daycare, and Freedom From Search, Seizure or Arrest<\/em><\/pre>\n
An End to the Privatization of Education and Real Community Control by Parents, Students and Community Members of Schools Including Democratic School Boards and Community Control of Curriculum, Hiring\/Firing, and Discipline Policies<\/em><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"