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Anti-immigrant rhetoric can be dangerous By David Gushee Religion News Service

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(RNS) – Some of this year’s crop of politicians tell us that illegal or undocumented immigrants pose a deadly threat to our country. I say that anti-immigrant rhetoric is the more dangerous threat. It has been deadly before, here and in other countries. It can easily become deadly again. You can watch the rhetorical escalation up the ladder – or down the slippery slope, choose your metaphor – toward danger. Step one: It is perfectly reasonable for those concerned about illegal immigration to express concern about our nation’s ability to secure its borders, especially from those who might pose a real threat. As one who regularly waits in lines to pass through border controls, I get it. In a nation-state world, borders matter. All nations attempt to secure their borders. The United States has a right and a need to secure its borders. Step two: It is also perfectly reasonable to be concerned about potential economic impacts of illegal immigration. It is reasonable to fear the creation of a job market for undocumented immigrants that can undercut employment for American citizens. It is reasonable to fear a drain on government social services or health care spending. Of course, if research demonstrated that undocumented immigrants do not create more unemployment or cost more than they contribute to tax dollars, this would resolve the concern. Step three: It is debatable whether it is reasonable to be concerned that undocumented immigrants pose a threat to American culture or the predominant use of the English language. The reasonableness of such concerns relates entirely to our vision of America. What kind of country are we or should we be? A “White” country, or a multiracial country? A predominantly or exclusively English-speaking country, or a polyglot nation? A European-colonial-descendant nation, or a multiethnic nation with people coming from all parts of the world? To opponents of (illegal, and sometimes legal) immigra-

Campaign rhetoric surrounding immigration can ignite fears in dangerous ways.

tion, I say that if this is your concern, say it loud and plain, and let us debate the matter. Step four: It is not debatable but abhorrent to express concern that undocumented immigrants as a group are dangerous and morally inferior. This, of course, was assumed in Donald Trump’s infamous comment earlier this year: “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best … They’re sending people that have lots of problems … They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.” Notwithstanding the slight caveat at the end, this comment dismisses Mexican (and surely not just Mexican) immigrants, as a group, in a very dangerous way. It invites all “non-Mexicans” to look at all “Mexicans” in a demeaning way and to treat them accordingly. Citizenship status gradually melts away here as the central issue. It is skin color and assumed ethnicity and nationality that is the problem. And some evidence is coming

in that brown-skinned, Hispanic, or “Mexican-looking” people face routine and even escalating dehumanization and degrading treatment today. A spirit is abroad in the land that goes far beyond one candidate. It is a proven pattern: When one group of people in a country is taught to look at another group of people in that country as inferior, immoral, and dangerous, the latter group will eventually pay a huge price. All kinds of indignities, discrimination, and violence can be expected. Need I cite examples? So we have reason to be concerned about illegal immigration. But right now we ought to be more concerned about campaign rhetoric inflaming racial, ethnic, and nationalist fears in some very dangerous ways. All of us need to be on our guard against it. Rev. David Gushee is Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics and Director of the Center for Theology and Public Life at Mercer University.

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By Curtis Bunn Urban News Service Tony Blair had nowhere to sell his wares at the Million Man March. But he went anyway. With a table and boxes of Tshirts, buttons and key chains, Blair and his team from Chicago set up shop last Saturday about 800 yards from where Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and many others commemorated the 20th anniversary of the original march. “I just came,” said Blair. “I wasn’t sure what was going to happen. But we came. It was about business, but it wasn’t about business, you know what I mean? Obviously, I want to sell my stuff. But it’s more about the moment. If I sell one item, that’s a good day for me in this place.” He was one of countless T-shirt and paraphernalia merchants who bypassed the official permit process and established impromptu sales stations during the nearly five-hour event. “No one said anything to me,” said Roland Williamson of Washington, D.C. Positioned at 7th Street and Indiana Avenue, his table was adorned with marchthemed T-shirts, wristbands and posters. “I just got to work.” Business was brisk for all vendors, including Blair and Williamson. “I wish I had known you could just set up anywhere,” said

Kevin Mumphy. He sold a variety of T-shirts at the first Million Man March, but had to operate about four blocks away because he could not get a permit for space closer to the action. This year, he acquired a permit and was near 4th Street and Constitution Avenue, directly in line with the Capitol. “This is a different kind of event for me,” said Mumphy. “I travel to events all over the country – have been for about 25 years. I don’t go to as many now as I used to, but none of them is like the Million Man March. I had to come here. “You come here to make money. … But here, the business side just isn’t as important. It’s the importance of the moment – that is why I’m here. It’s not an ordinary day. Look at the people. It’s like a family reunion. We’re here for some very serious reasons – we want justice. We want police to protect us, not kill us. That’s why this day is important. That’s the real reason I’m here. Business is secondary.” In 1995, Black vendors complained they were unable to acquire permits to sell their products near the activities. Most of the permits were granted to nonBlacks who previously had spaces closest to the Mall. “I wasn’t happy with the setup 20 years ago,” said Mumphy. “I was a long way from all the people. But it didn’t take away from my experience because it was

bigger than that. I met so many brothers who were in town on one accord. It was actually one of the more memorable days of my life, seeing Black men so together and positive and uplifting.” Many vendors shared his view – the March experience was about business, but not the money. “Sure, I’m making money and probably going to sell out,” said Michael Varrick of Falls Church, Virginia. “People love having something to commemorate this day. But the money won’t be worth more than seeing my people out here for change, out here for justice. Like the minister [Farrakhan] said, we have to pass the torch to the young folks who will be the leaders of the future. To see these teenagers and 20-somethings here – that’s what makes this worthwhile for me.” After the march, the streets were packed with people scrounging for T-shirts, hats, refrigerator magnets, bracelets; anything with “Million Man March,” “Justice or Else” or “Black Lives Matter” emblazoned on it. “I can also almost say for a fact that this was the most rewarding event for any of us,” said Williamson. “You get the best of both worlds: customers in good spirits who want your stuff and to be a small part of something that’s really important. To be here – I’ve talked about it with other vendors. Being here, for this event, means everything.”

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the development project began in 2014. He has owned Captain White’s Seafood City for 45 years and Salt Water Seafood for two s the $2 billion Wharf years. Development Project “The D.C. Fish Market is the progresses, rumors and greatest place on earth, and I’ve reports have been circulating that been here 45 years and I’m still the landmark Municipal Fish Marworking it, still loving it and all ket – which attracts customers the people around us,” said White. from all over the D.C. metro area “The neighborhood depends on weekly – will disappear with the us, and we’re going to be here.” new construction. Marco Bond has been selling Wanda Brown, who drives fish at Captain nearly 30 miles White’s for to patron the seven years. market, would He stresses the be one of the importance of thousands of maintaining customers sadfish mardened by its – Billy White, Captain White’s Seafood City / Salt Water Seafood the ket in its endeparture. tirety, despite “For me its incoming development plans and quality seafood compared to a lot grade garage parking.” Those may be comforting construction. of the local grocers,” said Brown. “I love it,” said Bond. “It’s a “That’s the reason we’re driving words to consumers, but some from Woodbridge to get to this of the market’s vendors fear that, good environment, a good way area for good food, good seafood. though the facility may still be for us to make money to take care of our families. It brings everyIf it isn’t broken, don’t fix it. It’s there, they won’t. Billy White, owner of Captain one together, and it’s a nice atmobeen here for a long time, it supports the area. I feel safe when I White’s Seafood City and Salt Wa- sphere.” Shane Ball, a Washington resiter Seafood, filed a preliminary come here. Why change it?” Hoffman-Madison Waterfront, injunction in August against Hoff- dent who delivers fish to the marthe company responsible for the man-Madison to keep the devel- ket twice a month, said he would new development, said residents oper from evicting his companies like the market to stay, but wants changes. He claims the market is can relax; the fish market isn’t go- from the fish market. White claims the developers “too congested. Ball supports the ing anywhere. “The Municipal Fish Market have blocked parking lots, thus idea of doing something new with has served the D.C. region for 200 obstructing his customers, and the fish market, including having years, and we look forward to not legally tried to evict him since better offerings to customers.

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Divine Intervention

Chicago archbishop calling for tougher gun control laws By David Gibson Religion News Service

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(RNS) – Archbishop Blase Cupich of Chicago, Illinois, has issued a call for tougher gun control laws, a move that may push the volatile issue further up the Catholic hierarchy’s agenda than ever before. In an op-ed in the Chicago Tribune, Cupich wrote that the original intent of the Constitution’s right to bear arms has been perverted by a gun industry seeking profits at any cost. The founding fathers could not have anticipated the widespread availability of “military-grade assault weapons that have turned our streets into battlefields.” “It is no longer enough for those of us involved in civic leadership and pastoral care to comfort the bereaved and bewildered families of victims of gun violence,” wrote Cupich. “We must band together to call for guncontrol legislation. We must act in ways that promote the dignity and value of human life. And we must do it now.” He cited a memorable line from Pope Francis’ speech to Congress during his U.S., when the pontiff denounced the profits of the arms trade as “money that is drenched in blood, often innocent blood.” The pope’s critique drew a standing ovation from many in the House and Senate, though they apparently saw the blast as directed principally at the international arms trade. Cupich disagreed. “They really can’t stand and applaud one understanding of that line and ignore the domestic implications,” he said during an interview in Rome. In his op-ed, Cupich cited not only Francis’ remarks, but also the Umpqua Community College massacre in Oregon that took place within a week of the pope’s visit. He also brought up the seemingly nonstop pace of shootings in Chicago itself, a city that has become synonymous with gun violence. In a recent shooting, a toddler was wounded and her mother and grandmother

Archbishop Blase Cupich, Pope Francis’ personal pick for influential archdiocese last November, takes on gun control legislation.

were killed. Yet, while those tragedies were part of the equation, Cupich said he had been thinking about the issue since he was installed as Francis’ personal pick for the influential archdiocese last November. He said he wanted to take time to assess the local situation, to talk with pastors and civic leaders and law enforcement officials so that when he did speak out he would “at least provoke further action … rather than just saying something that would get a headline.” The archbishop not only called out gun sellers and the damage done by their quest for profits, but he also took direct aim at the Constitution’s Second Amendment guarantee of a “right to bear arms,” a right that has become increasingly sacrosanct for many Americans and the powerful gun lobby. With his column, Cupich – whose is seen as mirroring Francis’ pastoral approach to ministry – became the most prominent U.S. Catholic churchman to call for greater gun control and in the most forceful and direct terms.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), which comprises the nearly 450 bishops of the nation, has not made fighting gun violence a priority, and officials representing the hierarchy have generally used more measured language on the issue. In the wake of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, the USCCB called for “reasonable restrictions” that would not infringe on Second Amendment rights. Cupich says he hopes his fellow bishops will now consider giving gun control – and the environment, also a priority for Francis – much greater emphasis when they meet next month in Baltimore, Maryland, to revamp their guide for Catholic voters ahead of next year’s election. Currently, both gun violence and the environment are tacked on at the end of the bishops’ voter guide, called “Faithful Citizenship,” while those issues are clearly at the top of the pontiff’s agenda. However, gun control “is a point that needs to be raised” by the American hierarchy, Cupich told Religion News Service.

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Youth from across America join Million Man March

By Sope Aluko Howard University News Service “What does justice and brotherhood mean to you?” Principal Aaronthomas Green posed this question to the 5th through 8th graders at KIPP Polaris Academy, an all-boys school in northeast Houston, Texas. Based on their responses, 30 boys earned a free trip to the nation’s capital for the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March, joining thousands of people who traveled from all over to be part of the historic event. The Rev. Jummane Bradford, program director for Mentoring to Manhood in the Kentland area of Landover, Maryland, brought a group of young men from his program. Bradford attended the 1995 march as a Morehouse College freshman. He said it was an unforgettable experience for him and he wanted to share it with a new generation. Many of the boys in the Bradford’s program do not have adequate father figures and needed to see the positive examples that the march provided.

“I think this event is one that is a rite of passage for our young men,” said Bradford. “Many of the things that they will be seeing here today will solidify what we have already been showing them.” Roshaude Williams, 18, has been in the program for two years. He says the most important message he learned from the speakers at the march was about developing good character. “Honesty and being respectful are very important, because they revolve completely around your character,” said Williams. “When I have children, I will help them avoid being a part of the nonsense with these lessons I learned today.” Alexia Lindo, 13, a student at KIPP Bridge Charter School in Oakland, California, traveled nearly 2,500 miles with 15 other students to be at the March. Lindo, who has two brothers, said she was inspired to come to the march after reading about the deaths of unarmed Black men like Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and Oscar Grant. “I don’t know them personally, but those could have been my older brothers,” said Lindo.

KIPP is an acronym for Knowledge Is Power Program, which was founded in 1994 by two Teach for America instructors and has grown into a network of 183 public schools across 20 states and the District of Columbia. The program helps underserved kids from pre-kindergarten to 12th grade gain the skills that will allow them to be successful as students and in the real world. KIPP Polaris in Houston is the first same-sex school in the entire KIPP system. It is 51 percent African American and 47 percent Hispanic. Seventy-nine percent of its students qualify as low income. Those were the factors their Green said motivated him and his assistant principal, Marvin Pierre, to bring boys from their school to the march. To pay for the trip, Green and Pierre launched the campaign “Beyond the Hashtag: Building Strong Boys into Socially Conscious Young Men,” on PledgeCents.com. By the time the trip rolled around, the campaign had raised only a third of the $30,000 needed. Still, on the morning of Oct. 8, the team headed to the airport. For 25 of the 30 students, it was their

Principal Aaronthomas Green (foreground) and his group of 5th through 8th grade students at the Justice or Else rally in Washington D.C.

first flight. Juan De Dios Diaz, 13, said he was inspired by the speakers to work on being a better student and leader. He said he eventually wants to attend Texas A&M and study engineering and he has also learned the importance of women to the community. “I learned that you should always respect a woman, because she is someone who gives birth to you,” said De Dios Diaz. “I don’t consider myself a great leader, but for the kids who didn’t get to experience this, I plan on taking what I

learned back to them.” Green said while the march had an effect on his students, it also made an impression on him. “When I get back to Houston, I want to ensure I am living the mission, vision and dream that was set forth today,” said Green. “I want my boys to see that this is bigger than just who they are. I want them to answer, ‘What can you do as one individual, as a group of 29 others, to make your local community better?’” Green’s fund campaign remains on www.pledgecents.com.

Politics Ben Carson needs Holocaust history lesson By Cathy Lynn Grossman Religion News Service (RNS) – Many people were startled by Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson’s recent remarks about Germany, gun control and the Holocaust He offered up a decades-old NRA-touted version of history, in which the former Nazi leader Adolph Hitler supposedly cracked down on private guns and thereby Jews were unable to defend themselves. Historians can take that one apart, starting with a study by Columbia University Law professor Bernard Harcourt, who described a much-cited Hitler quote lauding gun registration as “probably a fraud” and “likely never uttered.” I’d like to invite Carson to do his own research. Israel’s Holocaust museum, Yad Vashem, is too far away. The next time he’s in Washington, I suggest we tour the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Per-

haps he could help me understand his idea that Jews might have saved themselves if they had only had guns handy? Maybe he could show me which of the millions (that’s 6 million, counting just Jews but many more if the count includes gays, Christians and political dissidents) he pictured rising up. We could stop by the exhibit of the shoes Some of them are tiny. One million children were killed in the Holocaust. Many of the shoes belonged to women – folks who rarely had firearms in the 1940s. Were they complicit like the Oregon victims Carson shrugged off for failing to fight back? We could check the exhibits on the euthanasia program. Initially, the Nazis had a special unit that killed the sick, disabled and the mentally ill. They murdered more than 70,000 by 1941 and then they stopped counting. Guns for the blind? No, Carson

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probably didn’t mean them – or the elderly and disabled that Oregon shooter Chris Harper Mercer gunned down. Then we could look into the history of the mobile killing teams, the Einsatzgruppen, which swept through the tiny towns where Russia had kept most Jews and herded them to trenches for execution by firing squads. Surely Carson has heard of Babi Yar, the ravine near Kiev where nearly 34,000 Jews were killed? According to the Holocaust museum, “By the spring of 1943, the Einsatzgruppen and Order Police battalions had killed over a million Soviet Jews and tens of thousands of Soviet political commissars, partisans, Roma, and institutionalized disabled persons.“ As far as I know, Russia didn’t have gun control. So the Hitler-gunsuppression theory wouldn’t have applied. Neither would it have applied in Poland, where the Nazi

regime planted many of its most notorious death camps. Last time I visited Yad Vashem, a huge sculpture of resistance fighters stood near the entrance. Yes, there were resistance fighters – at the Warsaw ghetto, in the Sobibor concentration camp and in more places. Is Carson really saying these futile few who fought to their own deaths are nobler than those who perished? “Nazism represented a singular evil that resulted in the murder of six million Jews and the persecution and deaths of millions of others for racial and political reasons,” said the U.S. Holocaust Museum in a statement issued Oct. 9. “Comparing contemporary situations to Nazism is not only offensive to its victims, but it is also inaccurate and misrepresents both Holocaust history and the present. The Holocaust should be remembered, studied, and understood so that we

can learn its lessons; it should not be exploited for opportunistic purposes.” “The small number of personal firearms available to Germany’s Jews in 1938 could in no way have stopped the totalitarian power of the Nazi German state … In short, gun control did not cause the Holocaust; Nazism and anti-Semitism did,” said Jonathan A. Greenblatt, national director of the Anti-Defamation League. Carson called the ADL statement “foolishness” and stood by his own peculiar, discredited version of history. After a tour of the Holocaust Memorial Museum, listening to Jewish historians and maybe gazing at those shoes, Carson might have a change of heart. Cathy Lynn Grossman is senior national correspondent for Religion News Service. This post is adapted from her blog, Faith & Reason.

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new study links improvements in the performance of D.C. public elementary school students with Flamboyan Foundation’s Family Engagement Partnership, or FEP, where teachers and school leaders are trained and supported to build trusting relationships with the families of their students and to partner with families to support their children’s academic success. The study, by researchers at Johns Hopkins University, covered 12 D.C. public elementary schools and more than 4,000 students in the 2013-2014 school year. It found that students whose families received a home visit, one of the core strategies in the FEP, had 24 percent fewer absences and were more likely to read at or above grade level compared to similar students who did not receive a home visit. “This study backs up what so many teachers and families in D.C. schools have experienced: kids do better when teachers and families have close relationships and collaborate,” said Kristin Ehrgood, president of the Flamboyan Foundation which leads and funds the FEP. “The FEP gives teachers and families a way to form the kind of relationships that lead to success for students.” Teachers in the FEP attend several trainings on family engagement throughout the year and receive support from a Flamboyan coach and Family Engagement Leadership Team members at their school. Teachers in FEP schools focus their family engagement efforts on three core practices:

Relationship-building home visits where teachers get to know the family and student, discuss the family’s hopes and dreams for their child, and hear what the family expects of them; Family and teacher academic meetings where families receive information on their child’s progress, practice activities to support learning at home, and set goals for their child; Ongoing teacher-family communications throughout the school year. The FEP began in 2011 with five schools and was influenced by the Sacramento-based Parent Teacher Home Visit Project. Today the FEP includes 27 schools, including 18 D.C. Public Schools and nine public charter schools. In the 2014-2015 school year, teachers conducted more than 10,000 home visits in D.C. “This study should be read by every district serious about bringing family engagement into their core work,” said DCPS Chancellor Kaya Henderson. “DCPS is the fastest-improving urban school district in the country, and one of the ways we are doing that is by engaging families as academic partners.” Although there is general consensus among educational researchers that family engagement contributes to the success of students and schools, there is less agreement about what types of family engagement matter.

“These findings are a step forward in understanding the potential for improving student academic outcomes through meaningful teacher and family collaboration,” said Steven Sheldon of Johns Hopkins University School of Education’s Center on School, Family and Community Partnerships, and the lead researcher for the study. Many principals, teachers, and parents credit the FEP with accelerating student learning and improving relationships between families and educators. “The FEP had a profound impact on my daughter,” said Monquia Bumpers, a parent of a student whose school participates in the FEP. “I had some health issues which made it tough for my daughter to get to school every day. Eventually her reading skills began to slip. The FEP helped me communicate better with her teachers, which led to my daughter taking responsibility for her make-up work and homework. Her grades improved tremendously.” The FEP is funded by the Flamboyan Foundation, D.C. Public Schools, partner charter schools, the Howard and Geraldine Polinger Family Foundation, the HeisingSimons Foundation, the Horning Family Fund, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, and the Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) and the U.S. Department of Education through a SOAR Act grant. The study is available for download at www.flamboyanfoundation.org.

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Trainer Gerard “Coach G” Burley combines DJ party atmosphere into a work out that hardly seems routine.

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opular D.C. trainer Gerard “Coach G” Burley will relaunch his SWEAT fitness class in partnership with Youth for Understanding Saturday at the Wonder Bread Factory in Shaw DC. The philosophy of SWEAT is simple: get people to move by making their workouts feel more like a party and less like a chore. After 50 minutes of Beyoncè, Rihanna and other top 40 hits spun by a live DJ, attendees will have endured a series of exercise circuits and

Norton to champion in-state tuition for undocumented immigrants Congresswoman Norton has vowed to defend a D.C. bill seeking to provide in-state tuition to undocumented immigrants, saying it fills an education gap The bill introduced by District of Columbia Council Chairman Phil Mendelson, would allow undocumented immigrants who are D.C. residents to receive in-state

yoga stretches. They leave feeling more inspired, accomplished, and sweaty. The inspiration for SWEAT came from Coach G’s upbringing in Baltimore, Maryland. “I was a chubby kid. I never felt comfortable in my own skin,” he said. “When my mother died suddenly a week before my freshman year in college, I learned how fragile life really was and made the decision to change my own health.” Coach G made health and fitness his career and moved to Rome, Italy, where he started a personal training business out of his living room. “Everyone was looking for happiness,” he said. “I wanted people to know they were already good enough. I wanted them to know that changing their mindset was

just as important as transforming their body. I wanted them to believe exercise could be fun. That’s why I started SWEAT.” Coach G says SWEAT gives attendees a personal training experience in a group setting. Classes are $20 each, which is below the market rate for popular boutique exercises classes such as SoulCycle and Solid Core. For the grand opening, attendees can use the code SWEATDC to receive 10 percent off registration. “I want to meet people where they are and help them visualize their best selves. Everyone is welcomed to SWEAT and no one is judged. We all leave feeling closer to the best, truest versions of ourselves,” he said. To register for SWEAT DC’s first class at the Wonder Bread Factory, visit www.sweatdc.com.

tuition at UDC. Undocumented immigrants are not eligible to receive benefits from federal education programs. But Norton says it makes sense to give immigrants access to D.C. state university funding and that the local bill would also provide a new incentive for undocumented D.C. residents to get high school diplomas. “Many of these undocumented residents will ultimately become American citizens through immigration reform or other efforts,” Norton said. “The District has

also seen a recent surge in Central Americans immigrants, who have fled violence and gang crime. “Giving them the opportunity to pursue a college degree will strengthen our community and grow our city’s economy. It is harmful to halt the progress of the education of these students, who under the constitution are entitled to a public education kindergarten through high school. If the bill is ultimately passed by the D.C. Council, I will strongly fight any attempt to overturn it in Congress.”

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D.C. principal Jessica Cunningham gets a Milken educator award

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he principal, teachers, staff and students at KIPP DC College Prep thought the morning assembly was to official open the renovated high school. But the Milken Family Foundation Chairman Lowell Milken had a different idea. He stole the show with a $25,000 award to honor Principal Jessica Cunningham, Like everybody at the assembly, Cunningham was shocked, but happy to win one of this year’s Milken Educator Award. For the next six months, in up to 40 schools around the U.S., outstanding middle and high school educators will be given the surprise of a lifetime when they receive a Milken Educator Award and an unrestricted cash prize of $25,000 before cheering students, respected

colleagues, distinguished officials and the media during a boisterous assembly. Milken said that Cunningham, who is the first recipient of the 201516 school year, is a special principal. “Jessica has been identified as one of KIPP’s top educators,” said Milken. “She is a teacher leader who takes very seriously her mission to ensure her students are prepared to compete in high school, college and, ultimately, the workplace.” “To put it in sports terms, Jessica Cunningham is our franchise quarterback or our closer,” said KIPP Founder and CEO Susan Schaeffler. “She not only leads and prepares our high school students for college, but she also inspires our entire KIPP DC region to care more and do more because of her excellence. She knows that our students’ futures depend on what we do today and she is in it for the kids, with the kids, year after year.” Success in the classroom and natural leadership ability led Cunningham to become the principal of KIPP DC College Preparatory in

KIPP DC College Preparatory Principal Jessica Cunningham talks with reporters after the announcement of her Milken Educator Award.

2012. KIPP Prep is now the highestperforming open-enrollment high school in Washington, DC. The school boasts DC Comprehensive Assessment System (CAS) proficiency rates that increased by 19 points in math and reading during her tenure, with 20 percent of students enrolled in the special education program. In 2014, the school posted a math proficiency rate of 95 percent and a reading proficiency rate of 71 percent. The graduation rate is 99 percent and the college

matriculation rate is 89 percent for 2013 and 2014. Cunningham, whose mother was a teacher, is respected by students for telling them the truth, holding them accountable and suggesting helpful practices to correct their mistakes. She identifies with them and likes to provide opportunities for the students, many from challenging backgrounds, to make a fresh start. They see her as someone they aspire to be. Cunningham has been a part of the KIPP system for 11 years. She started out as a teacher and then became the founding principal of KIPP DC Will Academy – the third KIPP middle school to be established in the District. Will Academy had the highest overall growth of all DC charter schools in 2009-2010. As an Aspen Scholar, Cunningham is a role model to her fellow educators. She develops curriculum and delivers professional development as part of the KIPP Foundation’s School Leadership Program. She informally mentors several school leaders around the coun-

try and coaches KIPP national administrators. The Milken Educator Awards, which was launched by the Milken Family Foundation in 1987, has been described as “the Oscars of teaching” by Teacher magazine. Recipients are selected in early to midcareer for what they have achieved and for the promise of what they will accomplish. Many have gone on to earn advanced degrees and be placed in prominent posts and on state and national education committees. This year, MFF is launching a #MyTeacherRocks Instagram campaign that encourages students to take selfies with their favorite teacher and describe in the caption why their teacher is special. To enter the contest, entrants are asked to follow @milkenfamilyfdn on Instagram, post their selfie to their individual account and use the #MyTeacherRocks and #MilkenAward hashtags. The three photos with the most “likes” will be selected in November 2015, and February and April 2016. The winners will each receive $500 for their classroom.

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Crowds descend on the District for the Million Man March Justice or Else rally