Educational inequality: a growing crisis

In today’s public schools, success for African Americans is too often elusive. Our society still bears the legacy of a long history of racism, exclusion and low expectations for African American children, and our public education system has not adequately responded to remedy this situation. This persistent challenge is deeply harmful to the African American community, to our state, our nation,and our democracy. With every passing year, the damage mounts and the danger to our future grows more acute. Lower rates of high school graduation lead to less employment, higher rates of incarceration, ill health, substance abuse, and intergenerational poverty.
No failure is more costly than the failure to educate our Israelite Children. These are problems which stem from the larger society in which we live – problems with deep roots in our nation’s history.  But while we cannot change the past, we can and MUST change our ideals and deepen our understanding about education and how it shapes the future of our children.