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“disadvantaged communities have incomplete access to public goods. Poor people do not have the option of giving up public schools, water, or highways, and the state penalizes them for trying. Privileged groups give up public education by sending their children to private schools or moving to wealthy zip codes. When poor families use a relative’s address to send their children to a higher-performing school district, they go to jail. Highways are public goods for suburban residents who work in downtown centers. Yet poor black folk cannot give up the highways that divide and pollute their neighborhoods. “

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“The more you know of your history the more liberated you are.” - Maya Angelou #BlackHistoryMonth

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“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.” - MLK

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“In the United States today approximately 12.8 million students—or 27 percent of all those in school—attend school in a district in which over 75 percent of students are non-white. In a new report, researchers at EdBuild, a non-profit that analyzes school-funding issues, calculate that these students are getting dramatically shortchanged on the school-funding front.” - via @psmag

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Photograph of Lady Bird Johnson Visiting a Classroom for Project Head Start, 3/19/1966

Knudsen, Robert L. (Robert LeRoy), 1929-1989, Photographer. Series: Johnson White House Photographs, 11/22/1963 - 1/20/1969 Collection: White House Photo Office Collection, 11/22/1963 - 1/20/1969

More on Project Head Start

2015′s 50th Anniversary of Project Head Start, via the Lyndon Johnson Presidential Library

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The @latimes discusses the internal politics behind the failed ballot-measure to fund education in L.A. “After the ballots were counted, though, the tax earned only 45% of the vote — a stunning defeat for school leaders and Mayor Eric Garcetti, who campaigned hard for the measure.” 

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Supreme Court to Consider Montana Religious School Tax Credit

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#ED: “Afrocentric schools have been championed by black educators who had traumatic experiences with integration as far back as the 1960s and by young black families who say they recently experienced coded racism and marginalization in integrated schools. Both groups have been disappointed by decades of efforts to address inequities in America’s largest school system.” via @NYTIMES #Education #Race #Justice #Paidea 

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Bolsonaro's Brazil: Murder, God and Carnaval | Foreign Correspondent

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Student-loan debt collectors have been accused of deceiving and abusing student borrowers and have been sued by attorneys general in a handful of states. Now, they may be getting some relief.

The debt collectors, that is. Not their customers.

In an internal document obtained by NPR, the U.S. Department of Education, under Secretary Betsy DeVos, argues that the nation’s loan servicers should be protected from state rules that may be far tougher than federal law.

“Congress created and expanded the Direct Loan Program with the goal of simplifying the delivery of student loans to borrowers, eliminating borrower confusion, avoiding unnecessary costs to taxpayers, and creating a more streamlined student loan program,” the memo reads. “Recently, several States have enacted regulatory regimes or applied existing State consumer protection statutes that undermine these goals.”

The memo, which was first reported by Bloomberg, has not been officially released; it marks the latest move by the Trump administration to align itself with debt collectors over the nation’s 44 million student-loan borrowers.

Education Department Wants To Protect Student-Loan Debt Collectors

Illustration: LA Johnson/NPR