by Stephan Blanford | Jul 12, 2020 | news
Dear Integrated Schools Family: The last time I wrote to you in my role as board chair, back in late January, we were reeling from the loss of our Executive Director and founder, Courtney Mykytyn. At that time, we were grappling with the uncertain viability of the...
by Integrated Schools | Jun 29, 2020 | events, news
Within the last six months, we at Integrated Schools have seen a surge of interest in our work. Starting with the sudden and tragic death of our founder and executive director, Courtney Mykytyn, in Dec 2019, and more recently the murder of George Floyd at the hands of...
by Sarah Becker | Jun 28, 2020 | book club, news
In the next round of the Integrated Schools book club, we will be learning from Dr. Eve Ewing as we read her book Ghosts in the School Yard. A summary from Dr. Ewing’s website: “In the spring of 2013, approximately 12,000 children in Chicago received notice that...
by Integrated Schools | Jun 8, 2020 | news
Hello. Welcome to the Movement. My name is Anna and I am a White mom from Los Angeles -more specifically the stolen land of the Tongva Tribe. I am one of the members of the Integrated Schools Parent Board. We have had an astonishing number of new visitors, followers,...
by Integrated Schools | May 27, 2020 | news
On May 21, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund hosted a web event with (newly) Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah Jones and LDF President Sherrilyn Ifill. The discussion focused on Brown II, which is the less well known but equally infamous supreme court ruling...
by Anna Lodder | Apr 21, 2020 | news
This week, both Nikole Hannah-Jones (interviewed by Dometi Pongo for MTV News) and Ibram X Kendi (in his essay for The Atlantic) expressed how, one more time, communities of color are suffering disproportionally from this pandemic in the most acute and violent ways....
