WEFT Will Miss Chef Ra

WEFT, Community Radio

Website honoring Chef Ra, a regular on the Champaign-Urbana reggae circuit and WEFT D.J.

WEFT Radio

2006

Urbana Martin Luther King Day Celebration

From Years: 2004, 2008, 2009

Old School Music Pauli Carman

Local Music, Soul

Program put out by Urbana Public Television

African-American Read-In Program

Urbana, Education

Program put out by Urbana Public Television. Video directed by Ted Adkisson. Features Zernial Bogan as D.J. on WEFT radio.

Urbana Public Television

UCIMC Video News: Operation S.T.O.P.

Education, Civil Rights, Garden Hills

Local community members discuss Operation S.T.O.P. and the mission to end truancy at schools in Champaign, IL.

Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center

YouTube

23 September 2008

Elizabeth Clark video on Kiwane Carrington

Policing, Media

Created as part of AFRO298 Seminar on Policing and Kiwane Carrington, taught by Amira Davis at UIUC.

Education Equity Excellence Committee home page

Champaign School District, Consent Decree, Civil Rights

Page includes links to agendas, minutes and supporting documentation.

Text from front page:

One of the terms in the Consent Decree Settlement Agreement between the Champaign CUSD #4 Board of Education and the Plaintiff’s required the District to create an Education Equity Excellence Committee. Specifically the Agreement language states:

The Board shall adopt and implement an equity policy establishing an Education Equity Excellence Committee (“EEE”). The EEE shall be comprised of District staff and a diverse cross section of the community and facilitated by a third party familiar with community and District issues for at least one year. The purpose of EEE is to review and discuss the following equity areas, including data disaggregated by race/ethnicity and SES: academic progress of regular education, special education, gifted, AP/Honors, Academic Academy and alternative students; attendance rates; discipline rates and graduation rates. The EEE shall establish task forces on the equity areas as deemed necessary. The Superintendent shall provide a public report each semester on these equity areas to the EEE.

As outlined in the Administrative Regulations created to address the formation of the EEE, the committee membership shall be as follows:

The Committee shall be comprised of District representatives, Union representatives and a diverse cross-section of the community that reflects the District’s student enrollment. Membership shall include:

· One member of the Board of Education and an alternate

· The Superintendent and two other central office administrators

· One principal and an alternate

· A CFT representative with an alternate named by CFT

· At least 5 (no more than 10) members of the community

Community members may include parents of current District students, representatives of community organizations that address equity or education issues, or individuals who will assist the district in achieving the committee’s purposes. Members should have their primary residence within the School District.

Timelines for the applications were implemented to ensure uniformity of the EEE selection process. Applications for committee membership were accepted from October 19, 2009 through November 3, 2009. The applications were submitted to the Board of Education for review and feedback. From this process, the EEE Committee was selected and office terms were established at the first EEE Committee meeting in December 2009. Committee members and their terms are as follows:

Three Year Term of Office

* Lily Jimenez
* Virginia Holder
* Jamar Brown
* Nancy Hoetker
* Karl Radnitzer




Two Year Term of Office

* Nathanial Banks
* Jerome Chambers
* Annette Jones
* Cristina Medrano
* Melodye Benson-Rosales



District Committee members include Board of Education President Dave Tomlinson, Superintendent Arthur Culver, Deputy Superintendent Dorland Norris, Assistant Superintendent Michael McFarland, Central High School Principal Joe Williams, Centennial High School Principal Justin Moore (alternate), CFT President Deb Foertsch and CFT Representative Ondine Gross (alternate).

The Committee shall meet two times per semester. For at least the 2009-2010 school year, the meetings shall be facilitated by a third party who is familiar with the District and community. At its meetings, the EEE will review and discuss the following equity areas: academic progress of regular education, special education, gifted, AP/Honors, Academic Academy and alternative students; attendance rates; discipline rates and graduation rates.

Champaign Unit #4 School District

2010

Toxic Tour Videos

Environmental Racism, Douglas Park

Videos from Ken Salo's "Toxic Tour" in North Champaign, featuring Seon Williams and Aaron Ammons, among others. Tour began August 31, 2007, in front of a former Illinois Power Coal to Gas Plant, and concluded at Douglas Park, where Seon Williams discusses the past and present of Champaign-Urbana Days.

Ken Salo, Seon Williams, Aaron Ammons

Ryan Griffis

31 August 2007

SOLHOT application

Youth Groups, Campus-Community Initiatives

Syllabus and proposal for Saving Our Lives, Hear Our Truth, course, taught at UIUC in 2007 through the Ethnography of the University Initiative and involving middle school aged female youth from Urbana.

Ruth Nicole Brown

Ethnography of the University Initiative

ca. 2006-2007

School Supplies Backpack Drive

Heavenly Seven, Local Media

Video property of WCIA 3 News in Champaign, IL.

The Heavenly Seven filled over 600 backpacks with school supplies and handed them out to underprivileged families around the Champaign area.

HeresOneForYa (YouTube Account) - WCIA

7 August 2010