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Something interesting is happening in Arizona. Two bills are on the table, one targeting illegal immigrants and one targeting ethnic-studies classes in local schools. Somehow, as I follow the controversy surrounding these two pieces of legislation, I’m reminded of another time when I watched a curious thing taking place in the state of Arizona. It was the early 1990s, I was in ninth grade in Cleveland, Ohio, and the issue was the observance of Dr. Martin Luther King...
Schools built by small, grass-roots NGOs operate on the inverse theory of change, striving to revolutionize the local status quo rather than affect national or global change. Usually rural instead of urban and almost always consistent with government standards, schools built by organizations like Achieve-in-Africa, BuildAfrica, Ripple Africa, and Schools-for-Africa are intensely local, both in terms of curriculum and culture. Such schools do not guarantee a college education; they simply equip girls to maximize their impact in their hometowns by holding jobs outside the home and ensuring the education of the next generation of girls...
...orphanage currently houses and feeds about 70 children, and the school expects to support about 700 local students this September, according to Ford...
According to White, Oona’s is busiest in the weeks directly preceding Halloween and other annual themed parties at Harvard and other local universities...
Wayne M. Langley, director of higher education for SEIU Local 615, said that SEIU commissioned the report to determine the implications of major universities’ financial situations, which affect many of the union’s members...