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The Jeanes Foundation supplied the structure and the method to hire teachers for African Americans in rural communities. Teachers in the program were called supervising industrial teachers, Jeanes supervisors, Jeanes agents, or Jeanes teachers. [1] These teachers had a broad latitude to decide what areas to focus on in their individual ...
Desegregation resulted in the closure of Black schools and the loss of most jobs for African-American teachers. Whites did not want their children taught by Black teachers. The African-American communities lost their leaders and role models. It created a distrust in schools from the Black community. [3] Public Free School, 1882
The Georgia Association of Educators is a union of public school educators in Georgia. It was established in 1970 when the Georgia Teachers and Education Association , which was black-only at the time (established in 1933 by Joseph Winthrop Holley ), merged with the all-white Georgia Education Association . [ 2 ]
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The authors of a 2003 Harvard study on re-segregation believe current trends in the South of white teachers leaving predominantly black schools is an inevitable result of federal court decisions limiting former methods of civil rights-era protections, such as busing and affirmative action in school admissions.
On April 1, 2015, eleven of the twelve defendants were convicted on racketeering charges under the Georgia RICO Act. [13] One teacher was found not guilty on all charges. [14] Nine of the 11 educators convicted of racketeering appealed. Two of those nine went directly to the appeals court, lost, and reported for prison in October 2018. [15]
Public school teachers would get a $2,500 raise starting July 1, boosting average teacher pay in Georgia above $65,000 annually, as the Republican governor proposed in January. That is in addition ...
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