education committee
The Committee on Education seeks to:
- Eliminate segregation and other discriminatory practices in public education.
- Study local educational conditions affecting minority groups.
- Investigate the public school system and school zoning.
- Familiarize itself with textbook material that is racially derogatory.
- Seek to stimulate school attendance.
- Keep informed of school conditions and strive to correct abuses where found.
- Investigate the effects of standardized and high stakes testing practices.
- Promote effective teacher certification.
- Promote parental involvement in education; and
- Aim to be a center of community education on issues affecting minority communities and on the work of the Association.
Interested in joining our Education Committee? Please contact our Education Committee Chair, Christy King, at educationchair.macombnaacp@gmail.com.