This post was co-authored by David B. Shapiro, President and CEO of MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership, and Joe Echevarria, CEO of My Brother's Keeper Alliance. In Washington, DC, school administrators are laying the groundwork for a bold new initiative to close the achievement gap for boys of color throughout the District. Through the Empowering Males of Color (EMOC) initiative, Mayor Muriel Bowser and District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) Chancellor Kaya Henderson have committed $20 million over the next three years...
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