African Struggle To Control Education Resolutions...

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On Saturday, May 7th in Atlanta, GA, the Uhuru Movement sponsored a Rally calling on all Africans to address the current state of the Education of Our People, mainly our Children. This was not just a Rally to serve the purpose of Agitating and Educating, but to Organize and Mobilize as well. This was to put a Movement on the ground in the Atlanta area. A movement to SEIZE COMMUNITY CONTROL OF EDUCATION!

When we say "Community Control" we are saying that the People; Parents, Members of the Community, Teachers, as well as Students; should have control of the Institutions that are supposed to serve the purpose of Educating Our Children. And based on what we see happening in the School System, those who are in control now are failing Our Children!

Out of the Rally were developed Resolutions for All to help develop and work towards.

RESOLUTION:

To form a Community Education Committee that would be made up of all African freedom-loving People who want to work towards seizing community control of education in the areas of:

Curriculum
- To implement African Studies (Continental and Diasporic) in all schools.
- To have influence over the curriculum in other subjects such as U.S. and European History, Science, Mathematics, Literature.

Administration
- Monitor and attend School Board meetings
- Struggle for Representation on the District School Boards in the implementation of Policies and other decision-making


Community Action
- Come to the Defense of African Children, Teachers, and Administrators whose Rights have been violated by the Public School System

Independent Education
- Develop more Independent After-school programs, Saturday Schools, Home-Study Programs
- Support those Independent Programs that already exist.

Human Rights Violations
- Research how the treatment and miseducation of African Children in the U.S. Public School system is in violation of our Human Rights on an International level

For More Information:
404-454-5422 uhuru_atl@yahoo.com

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Board suspends Tri-Cities teacher

By MARY MacDONALD
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 05/11/05
A history teacher who had been accused of encouraging students to disrupt order at a south Fulton County high school lost his job Tuesday.

The Fulton County school board suspended Tri-Cities High School teacher Keene Walker without pay through the end of the school year, accepting the recommendation of a three-member panel of retired employees. The seven-member school board's decision was unanimous.

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Walker, a first-year teacher at the school in East Point, had been accused of encouraging a student protest and walkout April 27.

The demonstration began after students learned his teaching contract had not been renewed for next school year. Many students have described Walker as an inspirational teacher who had made African-American history relevant at Tri-Cities, a predominantly black high school.

His attorney described the decision as misguided.

"In south Fulton, it's very simply you're losing a fine African-American role model," said William Woods, an attorney with the Metro Association of Classroom Educators.

The tribunal held a four-hour suspension hearing Monday. In its findings, the panel said Walker had returned to school despite directives to stay home from two superiors, including principal Amelia Davis. The panel also said Walker did not notify school administrators when more than 40 students assembled in his classroom that morning. The students were supposed to be in other classes at that time, and the panel determined that some of them missed their mandatory End of Course Tests.

Walker could not be reached for comment Tuesday.

At his hearing, he said he had tried to help his students through his teaching and advice. He denied encouraging students to protest his pending dismissal but said he did not force them back to their classrooms when they came to his room.

"I did not encourage them or discourage them," he testified.

Walker, who had seven years of experience in other systems before coming to Fulton County, has won widespread community support in south Fulton County.

Prominent officials who attended his suspension hearing included William Edwards, a county commissioner, and state Sen. Vincent Fort (D-Atlanta).

Fort said the decision reflects a petty, rigid approach to education for south Fulton students.

"If there's anything Keene Walker is guilty of," he said, "it is teaching these students to think for themselves."

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