School Discipline

Sixty-two years ago this month, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ended segregation in public places and prohibited discrimination on the basis of race, ethnici

As a child, I loved spending Saturday afternoons at Eso Won Books, a Black-owned bookstore in the Leimert Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. The store was f

While turf wars are being waged between traditional public schools and charter schools across the nation, the District of Columbia is leading the way showi

Perhaps it is to be expected in our politically polarized country, but opinions about the state of discipline in our public schools fall into two fundament

This week, the Civil Rights Project at UCLA came out with a report on charter and traditional public schools’ discipline practices. The Civil Rights Projec

I homeschooled my son Joseph until he was 4 years old. Then I found Legacy Charter School, just by walking down the street. If I hadn’t found Legacy I woul