Daily News | Building a Black teacher pipeline for Philly and beyond — one Freedom School at a time
Freedom Schools in Philadelphia, Camden, and Detroit.
Freedom Schools are not a new concept. The movement formally began in 1964, when civil rights workers in Mississippi organized to counter the poor public education available to Black children and their parents, teaching lessons in reading, rights, and embracing Black identities. “I wanted to be in a school like the schools I grew up in and teach kids that look like me,” said Harvey,
will be provided with scholarships, mentoring and coaching, and, once in the field, retention bonuses.El-Mekki hopes the teachers fund will work in up to 15 regions within the next decade. But for the next several weeks, its work focuses narrowly on Freedom Schools.
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