Minneapolis school program works to help Black students who ve fallen behind during pandemic
The program works to help struggling seniors get their diploma.
MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - The summer school program is particularly focused on raising the graduation rate among Black students. The inequities in education has been exasperated during distance learning, said English teacher and education activist Nafeesah Muhammad.
Minneapolis school program works to help Black students who ve fallen behind during pandemic
The summer school program is particularly focused on raising the graduation rate among Black students.
The new initiative is working to uplift Black high school seniors left behind.
Created: July 14, 2021 05:56 PM
A new program aimed at helping more Black students graduate from high school in Minneapolis will start on Monday. We try to figure out the best way to scoop them up and get them over the finish line, said Nafeesah Muhammad, an English teacher at Henry High School in Minneapolis.
She s on a mission to help seniors who didn t graduate with their 2021 classmates this year. It was roughly 230 Black students, if not more, that did not graduate this year, she said.
With educator and activist colleagues, this teacher launched an alternative to traditional summer school called We Win When Black Students Graduate.