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Obama Campaigns at LA School Famous for ‘Stand And Deliver’ Film

LOS ANGELES Sen. Barack Obama promised to improve the education system Saturday when he brought his presidential campaign to the East Los Angeles school immortalized in the 1988 movie “Stand and Deliver.”

October 21, 2007

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Obama Campaigns at LA School Famous for ‘Stand And Deliver’ Film

LOS ANGELES Sen. Barack Obama promised to improve the education system Saturday when he brought his presidential campaign to the East Los Angeles school immortalized in the 1988 movie “Stand and Deliver.”

October 21, 2007

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Claflin VP Named President of Georgia HBCU

AUGUSTA Ga. George C. Bradley, the executive vice president at Claflin University in Orangeburg, S.C., has been named the new president of Paine College.

October 15, 2007

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More Blacks and Hispanics Live in Jail than in College Dorms

WASHINGTON More than three times as many Black people live in prison cells as in college dorms, the government said in a report to be released Thursday.

September 26, 2007

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Latina women and higher education – making it happen

Four Latinas discuss how they, against the odds, realized their higher education and professional dreams.

September 23, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Clinton: Create Public Service Academy

COLUMBIA S.C. Presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton told college Democrats on Saturday she would create a national academy to train public servants.

July 27, 2007

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Top Democratic presidential hopefuls express support for Urban League agenda

ST. LOUIS The leading Democratic presidential contenders on Friday endorsed a National Urban League agenda that calls for mandatory early childhood education and universal health care for children.

July 26, 2007

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Vouchers are the wrong way to go – Senator Carol Moseley-Braun’s address about school voucher programs – The Last Word – Transcript

The following is excerpted from testimony delivered by Senator Carol Moseley-Braun (D-III.) before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Youth and Families.

July 11, 2007

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Jeffords chosen to head Senate Committee as education panels take shape – Washington Update – Sen. James Jeffords

A moderate Republican was chosen to succeed Sen. Nancy Kassebaum (R-Kans.) next year as chairman of the Labor and Human Resources Committee, the Senate panel responsible for education, when the GOP cleared the way for Sen. James Jeffords (R-Vt.) to claim the committee’s top spot.

June 28, 2007

Latinx

Making It Happen

Four Latinas discuss how they, against the odds, realized their higher education and professional dreams.

June 27, 2007

Disabilties

Black Men and Education Focus Of Urban League Report

This year’s “The State of Black America” study by the National Urban League pays the most attention to Black males because they are further away from parity with their White counterparts in several significant categories.

June 27, 2007

Students

Little-known, little-recognized: historically black community colleges defy categorization, get job done

Providing a variety of college experiences and job training to thousands of Black, Hispanic and other students is a task honed to perfection by a handful of little-known and little-recognized historically Black community colleges.

June 16, 2007