If Every Child Were My Child...
Hope in the Cities has launched a three-year focus on education in Metropolitan Richmond. This cross-jurisdictional effort will engage teachers, administrators, parents and students in public and private schools. Hope in the Cities and its partners will facilitate sustained dialogue to help the community ask itself difficult questions.
“Fifty years after Brown v. Board of Education promised equal educational opportunities for all children, the nation must confront a growing crisis of separate and unequal education. Millions of students are not getting the basic education they need to survive and compete in the 21st century.” (www.civilrights.org)
Ask yourself, your neighbors and your friends…
Are we fulfilling the promise of Brown in Metropolitan Richmond? Are the educational opportunities equitable for all our children?
How important is diversity in education? Are our children well prepared to live in an increasingly diverse world?
As a community what responsibility do we have for the education of our children and the future of civil society in Metropolitan Richmond? Does responsibility cross racial, economic and jurisdictional lines?
What choices am I making? What would I do differently – if every child were my child?
Send your responses to these questions and your ideas about how we work together to fulfill the promise of Brown to contact@hopeinthecities.org
Read If Every Child Were My Child Education Initiative Overview.
Read the article in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
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