President and CEO Robert K. Ross, M.D. of The California Endowment shares a study conducted by the Urban Strategies Council with the findings saying that African American male students in Oakland schools are more likely to face harsh school discipline, have low attendance rates, and be off track for graduation.
And now, schools and school districts across California have pioneered new approaches to school discipline focused on reforming overly harsh policies that suspend or expel students while still holding them accountable for their conduct.
A customized collection of grant news from foundations and the federal government from around the Web.
Ganesh Natarajan is the Founder and Chairman of 5FWorld, a new platform for funding and developing start-ups, social enterprises and the skills eco-system in India. In the past two decades, he has built two of India’s high-growth software services companies – Aptech and Zensar – almost from scratch to global success.