West Contra Costa Unified demonstrates the impact of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s little-heralded Expanded Learning Opportunity ...

Dulaney has been a history professor for 50 years and is the former president for the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. The museum’s Freedom School through The ...

The Sacramento area is home to one of the largest Freedom School programs in the country. It's a collection of literacy-based after-school programs and summer camps aimed at boosting reading ...

The 1619 Freedom School will offer a five-day-a-week program targeting students whose standardized test scores show they are behind academically — starting with fourth-grade students at the district's ...

Freedom High School held its graduation Friday, June 6, 2025, at Stabler Arena in Bethlehem. (Amy Shortell/The Morning Call) ...

Check out photos from the Freedom High School prom as students dress up for the big night.

City High School founders are: Eve Rifkin, Carrie Brennan, and Brett Goble. Paulo Freire Freedom School founders are: Santo Nicotera and JoAnn Groh.

The Waterloo after-school literacy program co-founded by Nikole Hannah-Jones will host the city’s 19th African American Read-In after the city’s school district withdrew from the statewide program ...

The 1619 Freedom School will help students improve literacy skills and develop a passion for reading through "liberating instruction centered on Black American history," its mission says.

What started as a one-summer program was stretched into two summers and is now being folded into Unit 5's existing summer school structure because the demand has been so great.

She also co-founded the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting and the 1619 Freedom School, a free afterschool literacy program in Waterloo, Iowa, her hometown.

On a summer morning at the White Plains Children's Defense Fund Freedom School, the sound of kids cheering and chanting could be heard through the halls of Union Baptist Church. Staff members and ...