July 2016 Education


HU receives grant to create K-12 education advocacy platform


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During the HU Ministers' Conference panelists discussed the role of faith-based organization in education reform.


Photo courtesy of HU Hampton, Va.- The Hampton


University School of Education and Human Development recently received a $109,837 grant from The Walton Family Foundation. The purpose of the grant is to create a K-12 education advocacy platform.


Human Development led by Dean Dr. Cassandra Herring will conduct various case studies regarding school choice. Several case studies and workshops were led during the Hampton University 102nd Ministries' Conference June 5-10. More than 600 African-American clergy members were surveyed at the conference. During the duration of the 11-month grant, training sessions discussing education reform in depth and case studies of at least four organizations engaged in current education reform, including public charter schools and


The School Education and


advocacy leadership activities, will be conducted.


Conference, the "Believing and Achieving" session discussed the importance of faith-based organizations in education reform. The session profiled exemplary examples of work of faith-based organizations. Educational advocacy takes many forms such as offering educational support and enrichment activities, operating faith-based private or public charter schools, and providing service/support activities.


after slavery where our children were educated. We need people to wake up. We need warriors," Jamilah Prince- Stewart, executive director of Faith ACTS for Education, said during the


session. HU.edu


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