Archive for the ‘Public Good’ Category

• A Public Health Debate Topic of Significant Importance – Should “Philosophical Exemption” Be Allowed In Matters Affecting Public Health?

  Wednesday, April 25th, 2012

  “Freedom and unity” — individual choice versus the public health benefit of having a high percentage of kids vaccinated. “It’s a balance between individual rights and our obligations to each other in society.”

• NH Girl Friends, Inc Annual Books & Art Fair – April 28, 2012 – Wexler Grant School, NH – 10:00AM – 3:00PM

  Thursday, April 19th, 2012

  Books & Art Fair and dynamic, interactive workshops about Building Academic Excellence in the Black community and Living Beyond Racial Stereotypes. Come to Wexler Grant School on april 28, 2012 at 10AM -3:00PM. Be involved; get inspired; make a contribution and learn.

• Zero Tolerance School Policy Gone Awry – Adults Abrogating Responsibility – Police Handcuffed A Six-Year-Old Ga. Unarmed Kindergartner for Tantrum!

  Wednesday, April 18th, 2012

  Should a Six-Year Old Kindergartner Who Threw a Tantrum at School Be Handcuffed & Placed in a Police Holding Cell? It is a case of Zero Tolerance School Policy Gone Awry! It is MADNESS! Six-Year-Old who did not have a weapon arrested! Where were the adults at the school? What were they doing? Why weren’t they arrested for abrogation of responsibility?

• Is the Charge of “Fraudulent Enrollment” or Stealing an Education Just Another Way of Demonizing Poor Black Parents and Sending A Devastatingly Negative Message to People in the Black Community? It Just May Be.

  Friday, April 13th, 2012

  Education is the hall mark to success. Let us pay close attention to the fact that too many Black, Hispanic and poor children are not getting an education upon which they can build a positive future. This is exactly why we should be outraged at what has happened to Kelly Williams Bolar and Tonya McDowell; both charged with fraudulent enrollment, essentially “stealing an education” for their children! OUTRAGEOUS!

• IMPORTANT New Information about New Haven Promise: http://www.newhavenpromise.org

  Thursday, April 12th, 2012

  Starting in 2012, the New Haven Promise Scholarship application is only available online. This year (in March 2012) students who signed the Pledge and provided New Haven Promise with an email address were sent an e-newsletter with information on how to apply. No more paper applications are available for this program. Applications closed 4/2/12.