Schools Chancellor David Banks called the results “encouraging,” though state officials have warned against comparing the tests to prior years.| Chalkbeat
In hard-hit communities, student test scores fell regardless of their background. Although students have rebounded surprisingly well from COVID, they’re making uneven progress, a new analysis says.| Chalkbeat
Boys outside of the Stateway Gardens Housing Project on the South Side of Chicago, May, 1973 (NAID 556163) The Great Migration was one of the largest movements of people in United States history. Approximately six million Black people moved from the American South to Northern, Midwestern, and Western states roughly from the 1910s until the 1970s. The driving force behind the mass movement was to escape racial violence, pursue economic and educational opportunities, and obtain freedom from the...| National Archives
The 1968 Fair Housing Act outlawed racially motivated redlining and tasked federal financial regulators, including the Federal Reserve, with enforcement.| www.federalreservehistory.org