Balsz Elementary School District hosts pilot for 1619 Project educational development program
December 15, 2020|
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Balsz Elementary School District in east Phoenix will be home to a pilot program providing professional development for teachers on the consequences of Black enslavement and the contributions of Black Americans to United States history.
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1619 Project Advocates of Arizona are working to implement educational programming in Arizona schools based on the New York Times’ series “The 1619 Project,” for which the creator, Nikole Hannah-Jones, won the Pulitzer Prize.
The 1619 Project is a collaboration of the New York Times and the Pulitzer Center in Crisis Reporting in Washington D.C. Last year,