EDUCATION/YOUTH

NAACP works to ensure that all disadvantaged students
and students of color are on the path to college or a successful career by
ensuring access to great teaching, equitable resources, and a challenging
curriculum. We are dedicated to eliminating the severe racial inequities
that continue to plague our education system. Our ultimate goal is that every
student of color receives a quality public education that prepares him or her
to be a contributing member of a democracy.

To achieve these goals, the Education Committee of the
national board, in concert with education chairs and leaders from across the
Association, have settled upon a four-prong strategy to improve educational
achievement for disadvantaged student.

• Increasing Resource Equity: Target funds to neediest kids

• Ensuring College & Career Readiness: A path to success after graduation for all students

• Improving Teaching: Growing our own great teachers now in underserved communities

• Improving Discipline: Eliminate zero tolerance; keep kids in school* All applied to turnaround schools

• Game Changes

  • Voting Rights and Political Representation

  • Economic Sustainability

  • Education

  • Health

  • Juvenile Justice