Gary Franks (opinion): Can my high school be saved?
Gary A. Franks
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A basketball game at Sacred Heart High School of Waterbury in 2020. The school faces closure.Peter Hvizdak / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
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Gary Franks in his yearbook at Sacred Heart High School in Waterbury.Contributed photoShow MoreShow Less
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Gary A. Franks served three terms as U.S. representative for Connecticut’s 5th District.Contributed photoShow MoreShow Less
The announced closing of Sacred Heart High School represents a crisis for the Waterbury community. I would like to offer some ideas as to how we can possibly avoid such a shocking development from a once vibrant institution. Where there is a will, there is a way.
In the Wisconsin judicial district made up of Kenosha, Racine and Walworth counties, black men are more than 50 percent more likely to be sentenced to prison than white men accused of similar crimes, a study shows.
According to data included in a draft report for the Wisconsin Court System, the three-county Second Circuit District has among the stateâs worst disparities in sentencing outcomes when comparing white men charged with crimes to black and Hispanic men.
The report was created by the court systemâs Office of Research and Justice Statistics, which presented the draft version in January 2020. The study â which states it is building on an analysis conducted by Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief Justice Patience Roggensack in 2016 â looked at differences by race for felony cases sentenced in Wisconsin between 2009 and 2018. The study looks at the state as a whole, and by outcomes in the stateâs nine judicial districts.
Vaccine rollout reveals California s need for more Black, Latino doctors
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Richard Herron (right) wears a double mask while Laray Bonilla, paramedic intern City College of San Francisco, prepares a Moderna COVID-19 vaccine for him at the Southeast Health Center in San Francisco.Lea Suzuki / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Ezekiel Logan, a 96-year-old World War II veteran, receives his first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine ahead of the grand opening of a mass COVID-19 vaccination site at Moscone South in San Francisco in February.Jessica Christian / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
After a chaotic rollout, more people in California are getting the COVID-19 vaccine. Just not my people.
Watch D Angelo Duet With H.E.R., Method Man, Redman and Himself in Unconventional Verzuz Team-Up
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When Verzuz announced on Valentine’s Day that the reclusive R&B superstar D’Angelo, who has been under the radar since his brief tour in support of 2014’s “Black Messiah” album, would come out of his lair to perform with unnamed “Friends” at Harlem’s historic Apollo Theater on February 27, the Internet immediately lit up with speculation about who he might lock horns with. The DJ competition series pits one artist or hitmaker against another in a (usually) friendly song-by-song battle, and has ranged from friends like singers Erykah Badu and Jill Scott praising each other to longtime rivals with genuine differences, such as Gucci Mane and Jeezy, airing things out. Would D’Angelo lock sonic horns with fellow mid-‘90s R&B legend like Maxwell? A collaborator like Questlove, Badu, Lauryn Hill or Raphael Saadiq? Considering
Fewer Black, Hispanic students enroll in AP/honors classes. Stamford looks to fix that.
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Students enter the Academy of Information Technology & Engineering (AITE) in Stamford, Conn. Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021.Tyler Sizemore / Hearst Connecticut Media
STAMFORD In Stamford schools, Asian and white students are much more likely to take an Advanced Placement or honors course than Black and Hispanic students.
That’s a common story across the country, and Stamford is no exception.
About 55 percent of Asian students and 41 percent of white students in Stamford high schools Westhill High School, Stamford High School and the Academy of Information Technology and Engineering are enrolled in at least one AP, Early College Experience or International Baccalaureate course this year.