Jewél Jackson

Chicago

Investigative and Education Reporter at Better Government Association

Investigative and Education Reporter at Illinois Answers Project

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Articles

Ending USDA Programs for School Meals Will Impact Learning, Experts Warn

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Jewél Jackson

1 hour ago‘I Run the Country and the World’Donald Trump believes he’s invincible. But the cracks are beginning to show. efore we begin, a primer on the science of arranging an interview with a sitting American president: In ordinary times, reporters seeking an on-the-record encounter with the commander in chief first write an elaborate …NowA ‘Citizen Lawyer’ Gets a Standing Ovation at the Supreme CourtIn a remarkable scene, the justices applauded Edwin S.
Ending USDA Programs for School Meals Will Impact Learning, Experts Warn - EdSurge News

2 weeks ago | edsurge.com | Jewél Jackson

Health leaders, educators and farmers throughout the country are growing increasingly concerned about the impact to children’s nutrition after the U.S. Department of Agriculture cut two programs — totaling more than $600 million in funding — that helped to put fresh farm food in schools.
Using Sound to Heal Community On the Anniversary of Breonna Taylor’s Death

1 month ago | southsideweekly.com | Jewél Jackson

At the Chicago Justice Gallery, over one hundred names of Black Americans who have died from police brutality since the 1980s are listed on a wall as part of an ongoing photo exhibition, Echoes of Ferguson, at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Last Thursday, that wall was projected with pictures of Breonna Taylor, a twenty-six-year-old Black woman who was killed in her sleep after Louisville Metro police executed a no-knock warrant on her apartment.
Trump’s Policies Could Threaten Black Students With Disabilities

2 months ago | capitalbnews.org | Jewél Jackson

It had been over a year since Carla and Byron Scott’s 10-year-old son, Tyler, was diagnosed with ADHD, autism, and adjustment disorder. The couple questioned whether Tyler’s teachers in Portsmouth, Virginia, knew how to care for his disabilities, or if they would simply pass him through grades even if he performed poorly in school. Then, the couple came across a social media post, and their world changed.
Chicago alders discuss the importance of labor movement work with students

Feb 13, 2025 | thetriibe.com | Jewél Jackson

On Tuesday, students gathered at Malcolm X College on the Near West Side to discuss the importance of local labor movements with alders from the 4th, 33rd, 46th and 49th wards. “Where capitalism has run unchecked, labor ends up being such a key component to a fair democratic process,” Ald Maria Hadden (49th Ward) said.
Eve L. Ewing examines how the education system is designed to hurt Black and Indigenous students

Feb 5, 2025 | thetriibe.com | Jewél Jackson

Chicago native Eve L. Ewing is dropping her new book, Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism. In it, the University of Chicago professor and cultural organizer illuminates the deep historical ways the American education system upholds hierarchies of race. “For both of our peoples, both of these histories are about control. It’s about subjugation.
HillmanTok Is Bringing Black Academia to the Masses on TikTok

Jan 31, 2025 | capitalbnews.org | Jewél Jackson

Call it a Freedom School for the social media age. Hundreds of Black professors are making their classes available to the public for free on TikTok. Just as their analog predecessors sought to teach African American children through an informal network of Black-led classrooms beginning in the 1960s, this digital version attempts to broaden the community’s collective knowledge through online videos. Meredith D.
Special Education Aides Can Self Represent at IEP Meetings

Dec 17, 2024 | southsideweekly.com | Jewél Jackson

Jerry, a special education classroom assistant, or SECA, in Chicago Public Schools, works with just three students. The individualized attention, he says, is an important part of his job in providing behavioral, personal and classroom aid to students with disabilities. It allows him to build strong relationships with his students. “As a SECA my job is to mainly focus on you,” Jerry said about the students with disabilities he aids.
CPS Official Promoted Lead-Reducing Invention for School Water, Listed on Patent

Nov 6, 2024 | the74million.org | Cam Rodriguez |Jewél Jackson

Get stories like these delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter Among Chicago Public School employees, no one has been a bigger cheerleader for an invention designed to reduce dangerous amounts of lead in water from school drinking fountains than top administrator Robert Christlieb.
Top CPS Official Promoted Invention To Reduce Lead in School Drinking Water - Even As His Name Was on The Patent

Nov 4, 2024 | blockclubchicago.org | Cam Rodriguez |Jewél Jackson

CHICAGO — Among Chicago Public School employees, no one has been a bigger cheerleader for an invention designed to reduce dangerous amounts of lead in water from school drinking fountains than top administrator Robert Christlieb. Christlieb, the district’s executive director of facilities, operations and maintenance, has worked for at least seven years on the problem of lead in drinking water at CPS schools, a critical issue for student health.