Imagine you're in the 5th grade at a public school in New York (or Ohio, or Tennessee, or Oregon). You're reading at a 1st grade level. You can't do math well. Statistically you have less than a 50% chance of graduating high school.

....But everyone is arguing over how much your teacher should get paid.

UNDERREPRESENTED
A Joint Dinner Discussion with Students for Education Reform and Afro-American Society
Monday, April 23rd
6 pm
Cutter-Shabazz

Millions of K-12 students in public schools across the United States deal with this every day... and underrepresented minority students are often the hardest hit. Discuss what you think could be done to reform our public schools, whether you've watched Waiting for Superman, came from a public school, or anywhere else!

(YOU DO NOT NEED TO RSVP)

Need some facts? Check these quick links out:
http://www.all4ed.org/files/GraduationRates_FactSheet.pdf

http://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2012/04/four_of_out_of_10_minorities_o.html

Get ready to duke it out.
Students for Education Reform at Dartmouth