Detroit Public Schools and representatives of some of the area’s leading arts organizations on Monday announced a groundbreaking partnership intended to transform the Detroit School of Arts into America’s top public arts school through a new collaborative governance with prestigious arts and education institutions. A new governing council for DSA, which is expected to lead to significant [Read more…]
Michigan’s director of the Schools to Watch program, Dr. Nic Cooper, has announced three new schools to be designated this year and DPS’ Ludington Magnet Middle to be re-designated as “Schools to Watch.” These schools are exemplars of middle level education in the state and join 9 other schools that have been designated in the past 6 years. The Schools to Watch designation is meant to [Read more…]
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Elena M. Herrada
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Detroit Public Schools Board of Education
District 2
Education: Wayne State University
1992 Master of Arts in Industrial Relations
Coordinator, Master of Social Justice Program
Marygrove College
Adjunct instructor, Master of Social Justice
Mother of DPS graduates
Founding member
Centro Obrero de Detroit
2006-present
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Fronteras Nortenas
An organization dedicated to chronicling the history of Mexicans in Detroit
Founding member
Friends of Chicano Boricua Studies
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American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan
Michigan Coalition for Human Rights
Mother of four daughters;
grandmother of one (BOY!!)
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