Jania Thomas, 17 and a senior at BELIEVE Circle City High School in Indianapolis, was a strong math student all the way through eighth grade. But then COVID struck. Thomas had trouble learning the subject online: She mastered some of the material two years behind schedule. “I always did really well in math — until […]
Four months after the NAACP State Conference released an aggressive plan to close deep and persistent gaps in Black student achievement and with the state’s 1.12 million children returning to school leaders in the civil rights group continue to build momentum around that road map. The Indiana Black Academic Excellence plan, released in April, […]