Katy 17-year-old works to provide more equitable education across Texas
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Abhi Basvoju, a senior at Seven Lakes High School in Katy, is researching the correlation between socioeconomic status, ethnicity and high school graduation rates in Texas from 2011 to 2017. He hopes to educate people about how gerrymandering impacts public education in school districts across the state.Courtesy photo
At just 17, Abhi Basvoju is working to see more public education equity across Texas.
The Seven Lakes High School senior thrives on economics and numbers and has been studying the impacts of gerrymandering on graduation rates among Texas students.
About two and a half years ago, Basvoju started interning for Eliz Markowitz’s campaign for Texas House District 28. As Markowitz focused partly on education reform and involving youth, Basvoju fit in well.
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Federal lawsuit bends CT affordable housing debate
Jacqueline Rabe Thomas, CTMirror.org
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Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-OH) delivers remarks after being introduced as U.S. President-elect Joe Biden s nominee to head the Department of Housing and Urban Affairs at the Queen Theater on December 11, 2020, in Wilmington, Delaware. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/TNS)Chip Somodevilla / TNS
When President Joe Biden took office, his administration inherited an unresolved complaint and lawsuit that civil rights attorneys filed last fall, charging that Connecticut’s housing laws which leave most decisions to local officials are harmful to Black and Latino residents.
Now, while U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and Department of Justice determine if the state is violating federal fair housing laws by limiting where Section 8 housing vouchers can be used and where affordable housing can be developed state lawmakers for the fourth consecutive year are consi
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HAMPTON ROADS, Va. â When Ann-Marie Stephens left her job in corporate America to chase her dreams of starting her own business, she didnât realize the same struggles she faced as a Black, hardworking, woman would follow 30 years later.
âWe were trying to get recognition; we were trying to feel equitably valued that our contributions were assessed on the same scale,â Stephens said. âIt is almost for me, like a reliving of the same scenario in the entrepreneurial world.â
Black BRAND Co-founder and President Blair Durham said African Americans receive only about 0.2 percent of investor funding for startup companies and small businesses.