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Photo: West Midlands Police. Wikimedia Commons. On November 6, 17-year-old Da’Qwan Jones-Morris, a former Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) Freedom Schools® scholar from St. Paul, Minnesota, was killed when…
Marian Wright Edelman. Photo: YouTube Close your eyes and think about the words summer school. What comes to mind? If you picture a room full of children clapping,…
Tonya Bolden As a new school year starts, many parents are making sure their children have the right supplies from their back-to-school lists and double-checking their courses and…
Marian Wright Edelman This is the Children’s Defense Fund Freedom Schools® program’s twentieth anniversary. Since the program began more than 135,000 children across the country have had an…
