Members of the NAACP added their voices Monday to
calls for improvement at Duval County's failing schools. The group is
concerned that the county's 10 "F" schools are concentrated in
northwest Jacksonville, a predominately black area . Both that
area's high schools and three of its middle schools received
failing grades from the state. [more]
NAACP seeks effort to
bridge racial divide to narrow the racial gaps in education, income and
health that were reported last week by a research group in Raleigh, NC [more]
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