Human Rights - Status of African Americans
Abraham L. Funchess, Jr.
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Administrator
Mission Statement:
The Iowa Commission on the Status of African Americans, with the support of community leaders, public and private agencies and organizations, will consider, review and recommend programs, services, policies, legislation and administrative rules that will improve the quality of life for Iowa's African American population.
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Plan - How we measure our progress
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Strategic
Plan - How we plan for progress
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Report - How we report our progress
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Why this is important:
What we're doing about this:
The Division of the Status of African-Americans has
determined that the best efforts to close achievement
gap will involve proactive engagement with the
African-American community and the Department
of Education via the Ongoing Covenant's emphasis
on Education:
- We will partnership with schools and continually highlight the
successes of the gender-specific curriculum
model currently being sued at the Walter
Cunningham School of Excellence in Waterloo. This two-year
experiment has proven effective as the
students in these classes are outperforming
other schools and demonstrating higher
proficiency rates (WCF Courier, Wed., May 3, 2006
-- "Cunningham's single-gender classrooms
outperforming similar schools");
- We need to continually highlight the need for professional development
for our teachers. Good teachers implement
instructional initiatives that conjoin
with the right environment to produce the desired
results--higher proficiency rates (same article);
- Educate the community and publicize additional programs that
deal with early childhood intervention
and college preparation: e.g., Shared Visions, and
Iowa Choice, respectively. Both programs
have demonstrated successes for students that
go through these programs relative to
their peers (Dept. of Education).
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