Summary
This past year, equity in education has been under attack by executive orders, grant freezes, court decisions, curriculum censorship, and more. Through community interviews conducted as part of ACLU-PA’s new Black Donor Network initiative, we learned that education equity is a top priority issue for many, whether administrators, educators, parents, students, or simply engaged neighbors. To answer that call, we’ve created this webinar to shed light on these recent attacks and to share practical insights about how schools and colleges might continue advancing equitable education.
Our conversation will feature experts Dr. Eboni M. Zamani-Gallaher (Renée and Richard Goldman Endowed Dean of the University of Pittsburgh School of Education) and Harold Jordan (ACLU-PA Senior Education Equity Coordinator).
Senior Education Equity Coordinator
Harold Jordan is Senior Education Equity Coordinator at the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Beyond Zero Tolerance: Discipline and Policing in Pennsylvania Schools, co-author of Cops and No Counselors: How the Lack of School Mental Health Staff is Harming Students, co-author of Student Arrests in Allegheny County Schools: The Need for Transparency and Accountability, and the editor of Know Your Rights: A Handbook for Public School Students in Pennsylvania. Mr. Jordan serves on the professional advisory board of the Learning Disabilities Association of America. Past leadership roles include serving on the coordinating committee of the national Dignity in Schools Campaign, chairing the board of the Philadelphia Public School Notebook, a nonprofit news service reporting on the city’s public schools, and directing a national youth program at the American Friends Service Committee. Mr. Jordan participated in the 2015 White House Rethink Discipline Summit. Mr. Jordan is also the recipient of the Education Law Center’s Education Champion Award and the Marcienne and Herman Mattleman Award for Excellence in Public Education. He holds a degree in social thought and analysis from Washington University in St. Louis. (Philadelphia)
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