Posts from Zakiyah Ansari
The mother of eight current and former public school students, Zakiyah Ansari is the Advocacy Director for the Alliance for Quality Education and a parent leader at the Coalition for Educational Justice.
from el diario
June 8, 2012
This piece originally appeared in Spanish in El Diario.
Last Friday, the Department of Education quietly disclosed that it will end one of its signature policies: the all-out ban on so-called “social promotion” of students in city schools. Finally, “in response to … feedback and research showing that being retained multiple times can be detrimental for students,” (more…)
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