ICE raids have created a climate of fear for immigrant students, causing them to skip school and leading to anxiety, depression, and school disengagement, while advocates are pushing for legislation to restrict federal agents’ access to schools and student data.
Tag: Education
Posted inChan Zuckerberg Initiative
School Discipline in the Crosshairs: Texas School Discipline HB 6 Raises Equity and Oversight Concerns
Texas HB 6 aims to tighten disciplinary policies, but without addressing the root causes of student behavior or providing additional support systems, it risks widening the opportunity gaps and accelerating the school-to-prison pipeline.
Posted inNewsletters
Stay Woke! Your Dallas Weekly Newsletter for Monday, June 23, 2025
Welcome to Stay Woke! Your Dallas Weekly Newsletter for Monday, June 23, 2025! In today’s newsletter, Trump is insane and begging to keep oil prices down because he never considers […]
Posted inWord In Black
Why Do Schools Keep Failing Black Kids?
Black students are struggling with math and reading proficiency, and are falling behind in preschool and high school, with systemic racial issues and poverty outside of the classroom contributing to the disparities.
Posted inNewsletters
Stay Woke! Dallas Weekly Newsletter for Friday, June 20, 2025
Welcome to Stay Woke! Your Dallas Weekly Newsletter for Friday, June 20, 2025! Hey fam! While we celebrated the end of slavery in the US, the laziest POTUS ever said […]
Posted inEducation
Can You Teach the Truth in America?
Educators, students, and organizers are pushing back against school censorship and book bans by participating in the Zinn Education Project’s Teach Truth Day of Action, which includes pop-up book giveaways and screenings of documentaries about resisting curriculum censorship.
Posted inJuneteenth
They Tried to Erase Us, We Told the Story Anyway
Juneteenth, a holiday that was kept alive by Black families and communities through oral history, is a powerful reminder of the importance of remembering and telling our stories in order to resist invisibility and promote a multicultural democracy.
Posted inOpinion
Juneteenth: The Freedom We Knew, the Truth They Couldn’t Handle
Juneteenth is an act of resistance that reflects our progress and failures, and challenges us to choose whether we want to keep waiting for someone else to read our freedom out loud, or whether we speak it ourselves and enforce it, for real, this time.
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Stay Woke! Dallas Weekly Newsletter for Wednesday June 18, 2025
Welcome to Stay Woke! Your Dallas Weekly Newsletter for Wednesday, June 18, 2025! Before we get to today’s newsletter, Trump is mad because his birthday was sad and his parade […]
Posted inCulture
The Museum of the Bible Honors 125 Years of the Black National Anthem
The Museum of the Bible held a symposium to celebrate the 125th anniversary of “Lift Every Voice and Sing” and to show how the song has been a source of hope and inspiration for generations of African Americans.