ICEF

Anthony Asadullah Samad, Ph.D.  |   OW Contributing Columnist
Sep 15 2011

Between the Lines

My friend, Tavis Smiley, has a new documentary out on the plight of the Black male in America.

It’s a subject that has been part of the intellectual and academic discourse for the past decade. For the last five years, it has been the No. 1 issue in public education. For the past four years, it has been a subject of intense debate in Los Angeles, which has the worst large school district in the nation, right here in Tavis’ own backyard.

Anthony Asadullah Samad, Ph.D.  |   OW Contributing Columnist
Oct 7 2010

Between the Lines

The big community splash that is being made over the news about the takeover of Inner City Educational Foundation, better known as ICEF, the parent company of the popular View Park Prep Charter Academy, is sending shivers through the nation’s independent charter school movement. A community-based charter school system that grew the old fashioned way, through community and parent empowerment, ICEF currently operates 15 schools, mostly in South Los Angeles.

Jun 25 2009

ICEF afterschool programs to grow

Los Angeles, CA -- Students who attend Frederick Douglass and Vista elementary and middle schools, Lou Dantzler Preparatory Charter Elementary and three other charter schools operated by the Inner City Education Foundation (ICEF) will now be able to take advantage of free afterschool academic help.

Cynthia E. Griffin-  |   OW Managing Editor
Apr 2 2009

Joins state commission on charter schools

 Los Angeles, CA -- Corri Tate Ravare, senior vice president and officer of Inner City Education Foundation (ICEF), has been appointed to a two-year term on the California Advisory Commission on Charter Schools as the parent/guardian representative, and she is the first African American to hold this post on the influential nine-member commission.

The commission, which was created in 2001, advises the State Board of Education on all matters pertaining to charter schools.

Across Black America

Here’s a look at African American people and issues making headlines throughout the country.

California
San Diego college students and volunteers will carry out their sixth home restoration project on Wednesday, July 10 through Sunday, July 14. as part of the “Healing our Heroes’ Homes” (H3) program created by the nonprofit Embrace. The five-day effort will take place at the home of medically retired Marine Corps Capt. Sarah Bettencourt. Bettencourt served with many different units across the country during the Global War on Terrorism and developed a rare neurological disorder in 2008. With a focus to restore the homes of disabled veteran homeowners, H3 falls in line with Embrace’s mission to mobilize college-student volunteers and community members to serve less fortunate members of civilian and veteran communities. The project for the Bettencourts’ home includes kitchen and bathroom remodeling, building ADA-compliant disability ramps, widening their driveway to ADA standards, widening doorways and landscaping.
 
District of Columbia
The 2013 Smithsonian Folklife Festival will showcase its five-year community research project on African American identity with the program “The Will to Adorn: African American Diversity, Style, and Identity.” This multicity collaboration examines the history and culture of the aesthetics of African Americans. The festival will be held June 26-30 and July 3-7, outdoors on the National Mall between Seventh and 14th streets. “Whether we realize it or not, we are all dress artists. The way we compose our look is a creative expression of our ideas about who we are and who we aspire to be,” said Diana N’Diaye, program curator. “This program explores the diversity of African American traditions of style, but also teaches young people the importance of documenting their own culture and saving that information for themselves and future generations.”