107 Chicago Children Killed with Little Outrage from Anyone in Chicago; Join the Million Father March Webinar Today; Expungement Conference; Pay Parents for Better Academic Performance of Children; One of Best Afrikan-Centered Home Schoolers in United States

Making Progress; Moving Forward! 107 Chicago Children Killed Join 2012 Million Father March Webinar Pay Parents to Improve School Performance One of the Best Home Schoolers for Black Children in America Expungement Conference Tune In for Black Star Project's Parent Revolution National Radio Show Links: The Black Star Project's website: blackstarproject.org Black Star Jounral: blackstarjournal.org Become a Member: Click Here Event Calendar: Click Here Like us on Facebook:   In Chicago, 107 children were killed between March 2011 and March 2012 with little outrage from Chicago. In Chicago, 42 people were shot over the 2012 Memorial Day Weekend and 10 of those died with minimal outrage from Chicago.   Who cares about children dying in the streets of Chicago and where are the same policemen and soldiers who protected NATO participants last week?   Some of the children killed in Chicago:                     Name, Age, Death Date, Community, How   1) Aliyah Shell, 6, 3/17/2012, South Lawndale, Gunshot 2) Damion Rolle, 14, 2/21/2012, Greater Grand Crossing, Gunshot 3) Mark Watts, 15, 1/4/2012, West Englewood, Gunshot 4) Onay Lundy, 18, 12/12/2011, West Garfield Park, Gunshot 5) Alex Spikes  17  11/2/2011    Riverdale   Gunshot 6) Andre Vasquez, 16, 10/18/2011, Avondale, Gunshot 7) Jaivon Sandifer, 3, 9/2/2011, Austin, Stabbing 8) Ariana Gibson, 6, 8/7/2011, Englewood, Gunshot 9) Marcus London, 19, 7/17/2011, Washington Park, Gunshot 10) Richard Gutierrez, 13, 6/22/2011, Chicago Lawn, Gunshot 11) Markell Stribling, 16, 5/20/2011, The Loop, Gunshot 12) Luis Cordova, 19, 4/15/2011, Brighton Park, Gunshot 13) Mokece Brown, 17, 3/27/2011, Austin, Gunshot    Click Here to see list of all 107 children killed in Chicago between March 2011 and March 2012.  Please call Mayor Rahm Emanuel at 312.744.3300 and ask him to work with The Black Star Project to reduce murders of children in Chicago.  Join the Webinar on Organizing the Million Father March in More Than 800 Cities Across the World  Friday, June 1, 2012, 1:00 pm Central    Last year, in 767 cities, more than 1 million fathers took their children to school on the first day.  Parents, educators, faith leaders, elected officials, government agents, community members, business leaders, social service agencies and just plain people made the 2011 Million Father March the most successful ever.   Please join us for this Webinar on Friday, June 1, 2012, 1:00 pm Central by calling 773.285.9600. Please also call 773.285.9600 to get more information about the Million Father March 2012 or register your city for the Million Father March 2012.     Please click here to learn about the 2011 Million Father March. International Study Shows Payments to Parents Best Way to Increase Student Success   By Bjørn Lomborg Thursday, May 10, 2012   Thus, Peter Orazem considers three strategies that seem to offer the best evidence of success to date: nutrition supplements, offering information on returns to schooling, and conditional cash transfers for school attendance. All have been shown to succeed with benefits that exceed the costs.   Because the programs increase the intensity of child investment in school as well as child time in school, they help to break the cycle of poverty whereby poor parents underinvest in their children's schooling and doom their children to poverty.   By increasing child attendance, Orazem argues, we should even see an increase in teacher attendance, which will increase the quality of schooling offered to the poorest children.   Yet, cash-transfers programs are much more expensive than nutrition or health interventions. That might explain why cash transfer programs are concentrated in wealthier countries while nutrition programs typically focus on the poorest countries.   Read More... Freedom Home Academy International One of the Best, Afrikan-Centered Home Schooling Organizations in the United States    Our institution is a home school that is Afrikan centered in culture with a specific emphasis in higher level education and tutoring for toddlers through high school. We focus on developing and enhancing children intellectually, socially, and physically. We use different methods of teaching in order to best meet the learning style of children but we aim for the same result: academic intensity through an Afrikan perspective.     Studies show that Afrikan children in America are not performing at the standard that will prepare them to achieve in this competitive world. Our program prepares the students for opportunities where the students will have limitless options for the future.   Afrikan students have keen and brilliant minds and we teach and coach in methods that will amplify the excellence of the youth. We coach, educate, and train students to be innovators, entrepreneurs, and leaders. We believe this type of development starts as early as 1 years old.    Click Here to see the genius of Black children in Freedom Home Academy International.   Click Here to learn more about Freedom Home Academy International. Expunge Your Record In Chicago As many/most Black children in American schools are failing academically, the only way to successfully educate them is with the support and actions of their parents, families and communities. Register now for the free Chicago-area Saturday University beginning now and going through the summer. We have 15 free Saturday Universities operating in and around Chicago and south suburbs. Please call 773.285.9600 to register your child for free academic enhancement or for more information about bringing the Saturday University to your community. We need teachers and tutors for our sites. Please call 773.285.9600 to volunteer.       The US public school system is under attack In Philadelphia, the privatisation of the public school system isn't working - yet the stage is set for even more.   The public school system in Philadelphia is reported to be on the brink of insolvency. (AP) By Liza Featherstone May 25, 2012   New York, NY - The US public school system, once a model for the world, is under sustained attack by the nation's elites. Philadelphia, the latest casualty, is getting ready to sell off its schools - and their governance - to profiteers and snake-oil salesmen. We already know how this story ends.   The situation in Philadelphia, which has received amazingly little attention from the national media in the US, offers a disturbing window onto what the US elite is planning for the rest of our public schools - disturbing because Philadelphia's experience has already demonstrated that turning public education over to private entities will ultimately lead to its destruction.   The fact is Philadelphia is already the most privatised system in the US. In 2001, the state of Pennsylvania took over the city's school system and turned many of its schools over to private operators, even offering up 25 schools to for-profit companies. A study [PDF] by Vaughan Byrnes of Johns Hopkins University showed that, five years into this sweeping overhaul, the schools under private management were academically underperforming the public schools.   Read More... Susan Taylor, the Mother of Mentoring in America, Is Asking You To Be "In" for Our Children. Become a mentor!     Why Mentor?   Because this is our state of emergency today: Of all Black fourth-graders, 58% are functionally illiterate. In some cities, 80% of our boys drop out before finishing high school. Every day 1,000 Black children are arrested. 1 in every 8 African American males ages 25-29 is incarcerated. The number one cause of death for our boys is homicide. Click Here: If you have 60 Seconds to watch this video, you will become a mentor too.   If you wish to become a mentor in cities with National Cares Mentoring Movement Circles, Click Here or if you do not have a National Cares Mentoring Movement Circle in your city, Click Here to learn how to start one.   I'm in!!!  And you should be too! Listen to The The Black Star Project's Internationally Acclaimed Radio Program The Parent Revolution  Every Saturday on WVON 1690AM  The Black Star Project's Parent Revolution is quite simply organizing, supporting and encouraging parents, especially Black parents, to be the first, best and most important teachers and advocates for their children.  Additionally, we are working to make Black parents the major, dynamic educational force in the Black community. Join us Saturdays...    at 7:00 pm Eastern; 6:00 pm Central; 5:00 pm Mountain; 4:00 pm Pacific; 3:00 pm Alaskan; 2:00 pm Hawaiian or at  7:00 pm Toronto, Canada; 7:00 pm Havana, Cuba; 8:00 pm Rio de Janerio, Brazil; 10:00 pm Kingston, Jamaica    or Sunday morning 12:00 am Accra, Ghana; 12:00 am Lagos, Nigeria; 12:00 am London, England; 1:00 am Johannesburg, South Africa; 1:00 am Paris, France; 3:00 am Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania; 7:00 am Beijing, China   Click Here to listen to WVON 1690AM Click Here if you "wanna a revolution!!!" Call 773.285.9600 to start a parent revolution in your city.