“I will assure you that I am in support,” Porter said. The 10,000 Native American children enrolled in Kansas schools ought to be educated in places that didn’t cling to demeaning characterizations, he said. State Board of Education president Jim Porter, a Fredonia resident who spent 34 years as a superintendent, said retention of disgraceful mascots and branding interfered with the goal of attaining academic success for every student in Kansas. A list of school mascots in Kansas considered improper included Braves, Red Raiders, Warriors, Thunderbirds, Indians and Redskins.Ī challenge in terms of the state’s public schools was that Kansas’ 10-member state Board of Education didn’t possess authority to compel local school districts to select new names or mascots. “Blatantly racist depictions let me know that my opinions aren’t valid and what I have to say is not being taken into consideration,” Blackwood said.įive state Board of Education members expressed during the meeting a degree of support for a resolution or motion expected to be on the November agenda that would denounce this type of imagery. The council report suggested the transition be completed within three to five years.
She endorsed a Kansas Advisory Council for Indigenous Education recommendation the state Board of Education and the Kansas Board of Regents make a priority of working to convince local school officials to abandon culturally inappropriate branding. Topeka - Haskell Indian Nations University freshman Georgia Blackwood said indigenous-themed imagery and branding presented in the form of school mascots made her feel non-Native Americans were intent on treating her culture with disrespect.īlackwood, a Lawrence resident and member of the Kickapoo Tribe in Kansas, told members of the Kansas State Board of Education on Tuesday perpetuation of offensive team names or mascots created a hostile educational environment in schools. The Daily Reflector partners with educators and local businesses to encourage literacy, to broaden students’ community and global perspectives and to equip area teachers with a powerful tool for teaching.State board expected to vote on resolution in November The NIE program promotes literacy through the use of the daily newspaper as an instructional aid in the classroom. Newspapers are distributed to Pitt County Schools as well as East Carolina University and Pitt Community College through the NIE program. This program relies on contributions through fundraising efforts and sponsors. The Daily Reflector also administers the Newspapers in Education (NIE) Program. The Daily Reflector prints 16,500 papers each day, including more than 11,000 home delivery subscriptions.
The Daily Reflector has since expanded its coverage to all of Pitt County and the surrounding areas. In 1885, David Jordan Whichard became sole owner and publisher of the Reflector, beginning daily publication Dec. Moving the equipment into their mother's one-room schoolhouse, the brothers began their own weekly newspaper, The Eastern Reflector. Whichard, who bought the printing equipment from the proprietor of The Express, for whom they once worked. The company was founded in 1882 by David Jordan Whichard and Julian R. The Daily Reflector has been a vital part of the life of Greenville, Pitt County and eastern North Carolina for more than a century.
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