Phillip Jackson
Phillip Jackson
Phillip Jacksonis an American politician. He worked in human services at the Chicago Office of Management and Budgetbefore joining Chicago Public Schools as director of intergovernmental affairs in 1995and the Chicago Housing Authority as CEO in 1999. He has been active with the Boys and Girls Clubs of Chicago, standing as CEO, and is the founder of the The Black Star Project, a philanthropic organization intended to encourage and assist youth in academic development through community and parental involvement. Jackson...
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My hope is that Quincy is going to become a model that is replicable throughout the country in terms of bringing together the different partners to ensure that all children are properly educated.
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These young men see they are being shut out, locked out ? that their destinies are headed to disaster. They want help. They're asking for help. The community needs a comprehensive strategy to ensure those students who are not being educated can become educated.
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There's not one answer today, no magic bullet. It's a long process and we've only been at it a year.
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That's the one thing from Dr. King's speech that we have not done. We have not moved out of the dreaming part to the planning part.
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We need to teach our children to respect money and not worship it. We need to leave a financial legacy to the help the next generation.
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When they killed the dreamer, they killed the dream. We depended too much on one man, one personality. I believe Dr. King would say, 'we don't need a man, we need a plan.
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Schools didn't produce the problem, and schools can't control it.
control produce schools
Schools didn't produce the problem, and schools can't control it.