`We are now becoming what we are to be': Supporting excellence in our public schools From: Baltimore Afro-American | Date: February 16, 2001| Author: Cummings, Elijah E. | . Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Baltimore Afro-American

02-16-2001

`We are now becoming what we are to be': Supporting excellence in our
public schools

As African Americans, we have a compelling interest in the struggle for
America's future now underway in the nation's public schools. The national
debate about educational policy is a debate about our future as a people.

The power of education has always been fundamental to the African American
experience. Today, m...

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