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Posted: 7:35 PM Nov 5, 2009
Coalition: Pitt Co. African American Children Aren't Getting Equal Education
The Pitt County Coalition for Educating Black Children says there are clear signs African American students aren't getting an equal education in Pitt County. Reporter: Dave Jordan |
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The Pitt County Coalition for Educating Black Children says there are clear signs African American students aren't getting an equal education in Pitt County.
The coalition invited the Pitt County Board of Education and the Greenville Parents Association to sit down and start talking
the achievement gap, suspension rate of African Americans, and how they're forced to miss school because they can't afford proper uniforms.
The coalition says they now have a court order that forces the other two parties to start making some changes...but those groups didn't show up.
The coalition's next step is to schedule another meeting which they hope to do in the next few weeks.
Pitt County School spokeswoman Heather Mayo says the school board did not attend the meeting because when it was originally planned the judge had not yet signed off on a mediation order and they didn't want to do anything illegal.
Mayo says now that the order is signed they will let the coalition help advise them, but the board will continue to lead discussions and make the decisions.
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Alpha female we have something in common (amazing huh?). I had a Great Great Great Grandmother who was Native American. Hey we may be related. (rolling my eyes) Remember our President was raised by a white family and had little to no contact with his African father. (Remember when Jesse Jackson made the comment of Obama needing something 'cut off'?) He used the race card to win over 'some' (not all) of the voter's. However Netherland people are what color? Remember America is known as the melting pot of all races. Interesting you had a white husband. Are your children half white? I am just trying to pull all the pieces of your distorted puzzles of your posts.
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To:Duh moment: You may consider President Obama "half white", but I'm sure he would beg to differ. My father is Native American... He is of first people... I am of the proud Tribe of Gad. Genesis 49:19 Gad. My mother's mother's ancestors are from the Netherlands Antilles. All brown people aren't from Africa. But to clear up your statement... no there isn't a little European in me. That stopped once I divorced my white husband!
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Isn't it funny how when people hear someone say we have a black President they respond with "He's half white?" But when you speak of President Obama being in the White House the same ones say, "We don't need a black President?"
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