‘Development Revolution’ Articles

The “Posse” — the volunteers of the League’s “Development Revolution,” is inviting candidates for Miami-Dade School Board District 2 to address the community. The Posse will host a town hall forum on August 5th, giving each of the five candidates an opportunity to address the people most impacted by the Full Article

Liberty City is a Florida community of just over 43,000 people living less than two miles from the 79th Street entrance to Interstate I-95 and minutes from downtown Miami. Full Article

The Urban League of Greater Miami is asking 50,000 Miamians to take The Pledge, promising to help guide, nurture and encourage the children of Liberty City. Full Article

The Miami Urban League launched its largest initiative to date to combat the problem of failing schools in Miami on January 4th. The Development Revolution, which the League announced on the first day of the new school season, will target parents and other adults in the communities surrounding Miami-Dade’s failing schools, most of which are Full Article

On January 4, the Urban League of Greater Miami will launch its most ambitious educational campaign to date, focused on turning around the lack of educational achievement among students in many of Miami-Dade’s predominantly Black and Hispanic schools. Over the last ten years, Miami-Dade schools have made tremendous strides at improving Full Article

Less than fifty percent of young Black men graduated from high school in the United States during the 2005-2006 school year, according to a new report commissioned by the Schott Foundation for Public Education. Dropping out of high school sentences young Black males to menial jobs, street-corner hustling, illicit activities, fathering children out Full Article

From the Washington Post: “Why don’t you guys study like the kids from Africa?” In a moment of exasperation last spring, I asked that question to a virtually all-black class of 12th-graders who had done horribly on a test I had just given. A kid who seldom came to class — and was constantly distracting Full Article

Our Children are at war, and are losing badly. ... Many Black children and students are socially and emotionally out of control and are choosing violence and aggression as a way to solve problems in the world in which they live. They swear, fight, vandalize, challenge authority and exhibit other overly-aggressive behaviors. Too many of these Full Article

This fall, the Urban League of Greater Miami will launch a major initiative targeting parents in Miami-Dade. The campaign, called the “Development Revolution,” is aimed at promoting a renewed emphasis on education and achievement among minority families with children in public school. With the start of the 2009/2010 school year already under Full Article