2019 RFK Urban Education teacher award winner: Lorrie Weaver For Lorrie Weaver, Special Education teacher at Foundation Academy, her work has always been personal: She has two sisters with disabilities, and learning up-close about their [...]
Originally published June 22nd, 2018 Though she just graduated high school, Jacquelyn Hernandez has the compassion and civic awareness of someone well beyond her years. A graduate of Math Engineering and Science Academy (MESA) Charter [...]
Sylesha Brewer accepting her 2018 RFK Urban Education Award Originally published June 15th, 2018 Sylesha Brewer joined LEARN Charter School-Campbell Campus, a public charter in Chicago, just last year, but the 5th grade math teacher [...]
Originally published June 8th, 2018 In 2003, shortly after deciding to open Saint Martin de Porres in a vacant elementary school, Richard Clark was driving through the neighborhood of Cleveland that his school planned to [...]
Originally May 14th, 2018 CHICAGO (May 2018) A school leader, teacher, and student from across the country have been named winners of the 2018 Robert F. Kennedy Urban Education Awards, announced by Schools That Can [...]