TEP Celebrates Black Music Month

This joy that I have, the world didn’t give it to me. The world didn’t give it, the world can’t take it away. Black Spiritual Song We are celebrating Black Music Month all throughout June here at TEP. Black musicians are pioneers, shaping the American landscape and filling our lives with color and rhythm. For 40 years, Black Music Month …

TEP Celebrates Pride

As Pride Month begins today, we at TEP are taking a moment to acknowledge and celebrate the LGBTQ+ children and advocates in our communities and the educators who support and nurture them. Because we believe in equity for all students and we are very concerned about the liberation and freedom of Black and Brown students in particular, we want to …

What Happened To The Expanded Child Tax Credit?

The passage of an expanded Child Tax Credit (CTC) would have been a practical and proven mechanism for lifting millions of children out of poverty. Congress’s failure to restore and expand the CTC at the end of the 2022 legislative session highlights America’s child-rearing class divide and is harmful to children and the families who raise them. The expansion’s fall …

3 Things You Need to Know about Florida’s Ban of AP African American Studies

As you may have heard, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced last week that he would ban a pilot program for an Advanced Placement (AP) African American Studies course. While students, teachers, activists, and legislators in Florida speak out in opposition to this decision, there are a few crucial things you should know about the ban. We’ll continue to track this …

Economic Empowerment + Abundance

There are numerous avenues to economic empowerment for families, particularly those from systematically disenfranchised and under-resourced communities. How can we talk about measuring economic well-being through the lens of care, justice, and power? And what, exactly, do we mean when we talk about economic empowerment? We use economic empowerment to describe equitably allocating resources to families and communities and ending …

THE EXPECTATIONS PROJECT CALLS ON CONGRESS TO RESTORE THE EXPANDED CHILD TAX CREDIT

For Immediate Release | December 16, 2022Contact: Jim Hile – Director of Digital Engagement and Communicationsjim@expectations.org New Campaign mobilizes teachers, parents, students, and community members to join justice-motivated advocates in holding Congress accountable in their responsibility to support children and their families.  Today, The Expectations Project, a D.C.-based nonprofit mobilizing people of faith to demand excellent public schools for children …

Redistributive Policies + Economic Empowerment

There are numerous avenues to economic empowerment for families, particularly those from systematically disenfranchised and under-resourced communities. Policy solutions, like tax credits and other redistributive policies, that foster liquidity and resources for Black Americans can significantly improve intergenerational economic mobility and mitigate the impacts of long-standing systemic deprivation. At TEP, we are particularly interested in solutions that help Black families …

Economic Empowerment & the Child Tax Credit

There are numerous avenues to economic empowerment for families, particularly those from systematically disenfranchised and under-resourced communities. One particularly relevant avenue is tax credits, a government program that places money in the hands of various groups toward the goal of economic stability and sustainability. Right now, the Child Tax Credit (CTC), a program that could be an invaluable resource to …