Amount: $25,000
2015
Greenville, MS
Hazen’s renewal grant will enable CBG to build public work to support a fair and just education system by ending the discrimination manifest in inequitable funding policies, including revenues for public schools, harsh and exclusionary discipline policies, and inequitable education policies, like the Literacy Based Promotion Act, that hold all children to the same “standards” without providing all children the same resources to achieve those standards. As an organization deeply rooted in its African American community in the Mississippi Delta, CBG also will work to hold both local and state education officials accountable for their policies and to improve options for students with special needs.