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Yvonne A. Taylor, Advance Woman of Achievement and founding member of Sandy Ground Historical Society, dies at 88

Yvonne A. Taylor, Advance Woman of Achievement and founding member of Sandy Ground Historical Society, dies at 88

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November 29, 2022 Yvonne A. Taylor, Advance Woman of Achievement and founding member of Sandy Ground Historical Society, dies at 88 By Jessica Jones-Gorman | jgorman@siadvance.com Yvonne Taylor stands on the steps of Rossville AME Zion Church where she was wed in...
Our kids are on strike | Opinion

Our kids are on strike | Opinion

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By Star-Ledger Guest Columnist By Yvette Jordan In the era of COVID (or post-COVID, as some have cautiously begun to call this time we’re in), we have all become more than familiar with the phrase “nobody wants to work anymore.” As fast-food restaurants and other...
In the Fight for a Green New Deal, Schools Are the New Front Lines

In the Fight for a Green New Deal, Schools Are the New Front Lines

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Jacobin Magazine September 13, 2021. By Liza Featherstone A major socialist-led grassroots campaign is underway to pass Jamaal Bowman’s Green New Deal for Public Schools — a strategically savvy measure that combines forthright climate action with large-scale...
Lead-tainted water: What Newark can teach US about investing in safety

Lead-tainted water: What Newark can teach US about investing in safety

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The Christian Science Monitor September 1, 2021. By Stephanie Hanes Staff writer  @stephaniehanes Yvette Jordan remembers the day she learned the water fountains at her school were dangerous. It was in March 2016, and Ms. Jordan was teaching history at Barringer High...
Through Ethnic Studies, Schools Push to Include Marginalized Perspectives

Through Ethnic Studies, Schools Push to Include Marginalized Perspectives

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CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE TEACHING Ethnic Studies proponents say K-12 curriculum has remained largely Eurocentric and disconnected to the growing population of students of color in the U.S. By Hoa P. Nguyen  May 10, 2021 It was November 1968, and studying the history and...
NEW CAUCUS – GETTING INVOLVED FOR CLEAN WATER

NEW CAUCUS – GETTING INVOLVED FOR CLEAN WATER

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Newark Education Workers Caucus (NewCacus) Newark Education Workers Caucus (NEW Caucus) has been in existence since 2012 and started as a caucus of the Newark Teachers Union (NTU) whose sole purpose was to bring social justice to the members of NTU at a time when it...
SANDY GROUND – MY STATEN ISLAND HERITAGE

SANDY GROUND – MY STATEN ISLAND HERITAGE

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A bit of my family history – we’ve been there since the beginning going back eight generations as part of the Sandy Ground community in Staten Island. Nothing stronger than that SANDY GROUND bloodline. STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — When the state of New York...
CORONAVIRUS (COVID) FACT SHEET

CORONAVIRUS (COVID) FACT SHEET

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