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MCPS’s Black and brown community presses Taylor on educational inequities 

Hundreds attend meeting at Wheaton High School to discuss concerns

by Ashlyn Campbell, October 25, 2024, 11:04 am

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MEDIA PRESENCE

Opinion: MCPS must move faster to address literacy rate disparities

Students of color and their families need more support

by Byron Johns and Diego Uriburu

September 28, 2024

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The roadmap to get every MCPS student reading on grade level.

Following an impactful literacy forum, we would like to share an op-ed by BBC cofounders Diego Uriburu and Byron Johns published on November 25, 2023 in MoCo360, which highlights the Black and Brown Coalition's immediate asks in addressing the underlying inequities affecting our Black and Brown children's literacy proficiency: 

Opinion: How to get every MCPS student reading on grade level | MoCo360

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“The following is a statement from the Black and Brown Coalition for Educational Equity and Excellence and the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington on recent racist incidents at Wootton High School”