Screenshot courtesy of EmpowerED Families
Iris Blanco remembers how frustrating it was to try to enroll her children in school when she first moved to Indianapolis. Now she wants to help other parents.
“Just even simple things like that, for a lot of people, that’s hard,” Blanco said.
She’s one of eight Black and Latina parent leaders with a newly created group called EmpowerED Families, which hopes to equip families with the knowledge and tools to ensure that their children have the best education possible.
The EmpowerED Families team aims to give people of color in the most underserved Indianapolis Public Schools neighborhoods a voice in their children’s schools from helping parents understand how to work with teachers when problems come up, to rallying for more funding for their schools.
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It s hard to count exactly how many gunshots flew down Northwest 68th Street Tuesday evening because so many were fired at once, but Miami-Dade Police believe it was over 20. Two or three vehicles were involved in the incident, which can be clearly seen and heard in Ring camera footage. In the video, a car is seen speeding down the street followed by a silver SUV, with someone hanging out the window shooting at the first car. Witnesses said they saw the cars speed by their homes. To see the video, click here for the story from NBC 6 reporter Marissa Bagg.
/PRNewswire/ Cleveland Clinic s Weston Hospital has performed its first living donor liver transplant, in which a daughter donated a portion of her liver to.