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Fatima Morrell, associate superintendent of culturally and linguistically responsive initiatives, has been selected out of hundreds of applications across the U.S. as one of TIME magazine's 10 "Innovative Teachers of the Year."

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The Buffalo Public School District says it wants to end racial and gender-based inequalities and boost academic achievement by creating single-gender schools.

Buffalo Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Kriner Cash is proposing some hefty pay raises for top administrative leaders in the city district.


Buffalo’s public school students are very aware of the societal problems around them and the racial tensions surrounding the murder of George Floyd by former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin. A selected panel of students had a chance to talk about those issues Thursday. MST Principal Kevin Eberle leads a moment of silence during a balloon-releasing ceremony in memory of Larrinsha Johnson, 18, who police say was found murdered in Martin Luther King Jr. Park over the weekend. Credit Len...

ASSOCIATE SUPERINTENDENT, OFFICE OF CULTURALLY & LINGUISTICALLY RESPONSIVE INITIATIVES FOR BUFFALO PUBLIC SCHOOLS Dr. Fatima Morrell earned a Bachelors degree in Spanish, Cum Laude, and a Masters degree in Foreign and Second Language Education from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She also received New York State School District Administrator Certification from Buffalo State College. She earned her doctorate degree in Educational Administration, Leadership, and Policy from Universit...

America’s Critical Race Delusion Must Be Stopped. Indoctrinating our youth into thinking that America is fundamentally racist is not the solution to failing schools. According to information obtained from a Buffalo Public Schools district whistleblower instead of working on practical measures to improve the district’s dismally low academic performance, administrators have implemented “equity based instructional strategies.” The centerpiece of this view is that “America is built on rac...

Fact Check: Are Buffalo Schools Teaching Students That All Whites Perpetuate Racism? Newsweek 26/02/2021 Mary Ellen Cagnassola © WBFO / Twitter Buffalo police officers are shown talking to an elderly protestor, before the elderly man was shoved to the ground, on June 4, 2020. Buffalo Public Schools (BPS) in Erie County, New York, found itself the subject of national headlines this week for its work incorporating anti-racist principles into its curriculum. BPS, a district th...

Lessons being taught based on Black Lives Matter principles, which the author finds disturbing, are being taken 'out of context,' according to BPS administrator.

Fatima Morrell, Buffalo public schools associate superintendent for Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Initiatives, has introduced a new curriculum and series of lesson plans.