One Voice anchors its education reform work in efforts to dismantle attacks on public schools through privatization, school choice, and consolidation efforts. One Voice will lead the parent engagement component of the Jackson Public School District reform work. This is an opportunity for parents, education leaders, and other community stakeholders to demonstrate the power of community coming together to build the progressive, nurturing centers that our children deserve.
Additionally, One Voice will also keep careful watch over the slow healing wounds and scars of racism and segregation still evident in many Mississippi school districts, specifically the correlation between 50-year-old school desegregation orders and districts with high rates of suspension and the “push out” of students of color. School desegregation orders continued to be reviewed in Mississippi and information has been submitted to the Department of Justice in three Mississippi Counties.