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Every Thursday-Self-Care: Addressing Advocacy Fatigue in The Time of Covid-19 For BIPOC Organizers and Social Justice Activists
Join Arlene and Ala every Thursday-Self-Care: Addressing Advocacy Fatigue in The Time of Covid-19 a Space For BIPOC Organizers and Social Justice Activists
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COVID-19: RACCE Assisting Waterbury Families During School Closures with Technology Donations
We now know of at least (30) families need laptops or tablets so that their children can access the supplemental online learning opportunities being offered by the Waterbury Public Schools.
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COVID_19: Waterbury School Closure Survey/ COVID_19 Encuesta de cierre de la escuela de Waterbury
Fill out this survey and help RACCE track the school district’s response to families and students during the school closures due to the COVID_19 virus/RACCE está rastreando la respuesta del distrito escolar a las familias y estudiantes durante el cierre de las escuelas debido al virus COVID_19
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WATERBURY COVID-19 CLOSURES EXTENDED TO 3/31/2020: SCHOOL CLOSURES, KNOW YOUR RIGHTS & SIGN-UPS FOR SOLIDARITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY CHECK-INS
An “Alert” style announcement was made on the Waterbury Public Schools website and it indicates they will be closed to at least to March 31, 2020 following Gov. Lamont’s executive order closing all of Connecticut’s public schools. (The school district… Read More ›
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RACCE Statement on Waterbury Public Schools Closing…
Mayor O’Leary and Superintendent Ruffin will be shuttering our schools immediately due to the public health crisis associated with COVID-19. We believe this to be the right decision. We also believe the city and schools must find innovative and appropriate ways to respond to all of our student’s needs.
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Teacher Diversity: Waterbury Public Schools Has Lost Its Last Three Pairs of Personnel Directors and Talent Management Supervisors
Teacher Diversity: Waterbury Public Schools Has Lost Its Last Three Pairs of Personnel Directors and Talent Management Supervisors…
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School-To-Prison Pipeline Is Overflowing in Waterbury
The School-To-Prison Pipeline Is Overflowing in Waterbury…Despite accounting for just 3.5% of the state’s student population Waterbury students accounted for 18% of all school-based arrests in the state of Connecticut.
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RACCE’s Team is Growing: Ala Nzambi Ochumare Joins RACCE as Our ABAR Organizer
RACCE’s Team is Growing: Ala Nzambi Ochumare Joins RACCE as Our ABAR Organizer
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Alliance District Funding Usage, Lack of Race-Matched Classrooms, and the School-to-Prison Pipeline Continue to Produce Racist Outcomes…
Alliance District Funding Usage, Lack of Race-Matched Classrooms, and the School-to-Prison Pipeline Continue to Produce Racist Outcomes…Join us this Tuesday February 4, 2020 at 6:30 pm
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Is Teacher Diversity a Real Objective When Zero Black Male Teachers Are Hired?
In Waterbury, hand-selected political gatekeepers or accomplices of the system are chosen to rubberstamp the policies or programs that have been put in place to challenge the racial inequity that is so pervasive in the Waterbury schools. Their actions have preserved the White Supremacist structures that speed up the school-to-prison pipeline, exasperate achievement and performance gaps between Black and Latinx students and their white peers, and continue to oppress or directly repress opportunities to access liberatory educational experiences.
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Waterbury Superintendent, BOE, and Policing: Police Free Schools Campaign and #STOPtheMOU Updates
February 23, 2021
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Devan Must Resign: Waterbury BOE Commissioner Has Been Asked to Resign, Will She?
December 16, 2020
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Naugatuck Police Officer Appointment to Waterbury Board of Education is Steeped in Anti-Blackness
December 3, 2020
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The Revolution Will Not Be Rained Out: Rallies for Police Free Schools Will Continue Across Connecticut
September 13, 2020
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RACCE Joins Coalition in Support of Police Free Schools: Rally for Justice and Joy September 1oth in Waterbury…
September 9, 2020
In the News ›
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As Predicted Waterbury Test Scores Get Worse, Not Better! Hispanic and Black Students Lag Behind Peers…
July 29, 2018
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Trump rallies crowd in Waterbury
April 23, 2016
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Changes in teacher-hiring policies won’t fix serious problem
April 19, 2016
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Waterbury schools find best way to diversify
April 18, 2016
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Balancing Educational Reform by Promoting Policies that Place Students First
March 7, 2016