[Peace-discuss] Unit 4 schools and the black community

[Karen Medina]

Interested in the issues surrounding the Champaign Schools and the Black Community? There is a Great Campus Project meeting this evening.

The Unit 4 school district (Champaign) is under federal mandate to eliminate racial disparities in educational achievement and put more seats in North Champaign. The Great Campus Project is a grass roots idea to help the school district live up to its promise.

The Great Campus Project will put seats in North Champaign, it is a call for a K-8 school with high educational standards that would pilot the best teaching practices, and it will involve the University of Illinois to help solve community problems.

Tonight (October 23, 2006), 6pm
Great Campus Scoping Study gathering
Mount Olive Baptist Church
808 E. Bradley Ave. Champaign, IL   61801 

People involved in the Great Campus Project include:
Imani Bazzell 
Ann Bishop
Rochelle Gutierrez
Doug Johnston
Jim Wescoat

Some other people involved in the consent decree include:
Mark Aber
Maryam Ar-Raheem
Patricia Avery
Rev. Zernial Bogan
Andre Brock
Stuart Broz
Keisha Burke
Rev. Jerome Chambers
Julia Connor
Randall Cotton
Amira Davis
Urmitapa Dutta
Marilyn Garmon
Vernessa T. Gipson
Stephanie Hill
Ronna James
Sandra Kato
Thom Moore
Morris Mosley
Rev. Charles O. Nash
Eloris Nash
Tracy Parsons
Minnie Pearson
Julian Rappaport
Janet Reis
Giraldo Rosales
Rev. Claude Shelby
Karen C. Simms
Sam Smith
Candy Taffe
Nathan Todd
Gene Vanderport
Doug West