Educational Disparities Intensified in Dallas

“Education should not be a competition resulting in winners and losers.

Education should be a competition against ignorance, and all should be encouraged to win”

DJN Co-president Ndure recently visited a high school in South Dallas, James Madison Highschool.

He wanted to explore and show the differences, the contrast, even the aesthetic, between the schools in Highland park, which look like university campuses.

“It looks like a prison.”

And BIPOC children are the ones most harmed by the inequalities and disparities in education. The pandemic has only intensified this reality.

Dallas needs to do better- all of the US needs to do better for out children!

Here are some sobering facts:

Black students in the Condition of Education 2020

Millions of Black parents expect public schools to help their children to be better. Millions of Black students depend on public education to pursue their happiness. We tried hard to find a significant improvement for Black students in the Condition of Education 2020. Yet, what the data demonstrate is disappointing and discouraging.

*The poverty rate is still the highest for Black students.

*A lack of internet access at home has become a barrier for Black students to learn.

*A high percentage of Black students attend high-poverty schools.

*More Black students with disabilities receive services for emotional disturbances.

*The disproportion between Black students and Black teachers has not been improved.

*The achievement gap between Black and white students has not been closed.

*School dropout rate keeps high among Black students.

*Graduation rates and college enrollment rates remain low among Black students.

(full article at https://www.nsba.org/Perspectives/2020/black-students-condition-education)