Category Political Encounters
Description*: Dating back to the Trump administration, where we saw a 1776 Commission Report that was designed to offer a framework for a “patriotic education” to counter “false and fashionable” histories, and an “equity gag order,” (Executive Order 13950)… Continue Reading →
Tune in to Encuentros Políticos/Political Encounters, Tuesdays at 4p & Sundays at 5p EST on USALAmedia.com Episode: Credit overdue, examining academic transfer problems for U.S. youth in the juvenile justice system Across the country, more than 48,000 youth are confined… Continue Reading →
Tune in to Encuentros Políticos/Political Encounters, Tuesdays at 4p & Sundays at 5p EST on USALAmedia.com Episode: Teaching for Justice in the midst of the dual pandemics of Covid-19 and Racial Injustice, with Tamara Anderson, Dana Carter and Alma Sheppard-Matsuo… Continue Reading →
Tune in to Encuentros Políticos/Political Encounters, Tuesdays at 4p & Sundays at 5p EST on USALAmedia.com Episode: Pandemic Schooling for students with dis/abilities a conversation with Dr. María Cioè-Peña As the school year in the midst of the Covid19 pandemic… Continue Reading →
Tensions have run high as the School District of Philadelphia, like districts across the U.S., have been devising plans to reopen schools within the context of COVID19. At last Thursday’s school board meeting, district officials presented a proposal to reopen… Continue Reading →
At least 1 in 6 of all COVID-19 cases in Illinois’ communities are linked to spread from a single jail. Nationally, we cycle 5 million people through jail every year. If the study’s findings roughly hold in other places, this… Continue Reading →
