Author Archives
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Changes in teacher-hiring policies won’t fix serious problem
“Data reveal the Waterbury public schools’ hiring practices have resulted in huge disparities between the numbers of teachers of color who have been hired relative to their white peers. Over the last seven years, the school system has hired more… Read More ›
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Waterbury schools find best way to diversify
“In February, the city NAACP branch suggested Connecticut government aid to Waterbury schools be withheld until the district’s “unlawful discriminatory employment practices” are investigated. This proposal, which would ravage the schools if implemented by the state, was presented despite an… Read More ›
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Balancing Educational Reform by Promoting Policies that Place Students First
From CONNCAN’s Media Room: COALITION OF LEADING EDUCATION, PARENTS, BUSINESS, COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS OPPOSE EFFORTS TO WEAKEN STATE’S EDUCATION EVALUATION SYSTEM Today, the Connecticut General Assembly Joint Committee on Education will hold a public hearing onSB 380, AN ACT CONCERNING… Read More ›
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Response to Waterbury Public School’s Minority Teacher Recruitment Mid-Year Report
The Board of Education attempted to put on a workshop last Thursday, February 25, 2016. What we witnessed was a public relations-marketing event, a pep rally. It was unprofessional, as well as a petty display of power. It’s shameful that this… Read More ›
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RACCE’s Taskforce Work Slowed by Misrepresentations and Willful Neglect of Waterbury Public Schools
R.A.C.C.E. Press Release Over the summer, R. A. C. C. E. co-founder Dr. Arlene Arias was appointed to the Connecticut State Legislative Taskforce on Minority Teacher Recruitment. Dr. Arias’ work as an educational advocate was the primary reason for her… Read More ›
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Brown must Apologize and Acknowledge our Work is Fact-based, or Resign.
We waited for over 11 days for a response on this issue from Mayor Neil O’Leary, Superintendent Ouellette, and the Waterbury Board of Education. No official response has been given. At the conclusion of the 12/17/15 Waterbury Board of Education… Read More ›
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School District Improvement Plans: Are Black and Hispanic Students the Miner’s Canary? Yes, but We are Fighting to Stop the Experimentation.
School District Improvement Plans: Are Black and Hispanic Students the Miner’s Canary? In a diverse urban school district, such as Waterbury, it is impossible for curricular development or reform strategies bereft of cultural competency measures to be successful. Further, we… Read More ›
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Our Plan to Democratize the WTA Negotiations, Mediations and Arbitration
We believe the City of Waterbury, Mayor Neil O’Leary, the Board of Education and the Waterbury Teachers Association can build a collective bargaining agreement that prioritizes student needs over job-protections. We also believe teachers and teacher unions are the most… Read More ›
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Welcome to our Website
Welcome to our Website!!! Our names are Dr. Arlene Arias, Chantae Campbell and Robert Goodrich, and it is with great pleasure that we introduce ourselves as a newly founded community advocacy group called R.A.C.C.E.-Radical Advocates for Cross-Cultural Education. Our mission… Read More ›
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Writer overstated impact of single parenthood on kids
“In truth, it is arguments like Mr. Martland’s that serve as a smokescreen to distract us from the reality that all kids are capable of learning. Public schools act as society’s great equalizer; they afford students the opportunity to overcome… Read More ›