The Durham Public Education Network is galvanizing community support to help minority students overcome the difficulties they encounter in school.
Students talk about their experience in segregated high schools.
Your browser needs the Flash plug-in to view the presentation. If minority students are to close the gap in achievement that separates them from white students, the entire community must pitch in to help, say leaders of the Durham Public Education Network. Acting on that belief, the network, a nonprofit group that supports schools, has organized a series of meetings, opinion surveys and planning sessions to help the public learn about and address some of the difficulties black and Hispanic children encounter in schools. Organizers say their goal is to work with parents, clergy, teachers, business leaders, government officials, students and others to find ways of supplementing existing school and community programs. It's not about telling the schools what to do, because the schools are moving forward.