Everton Blair is Not Making Education Politics as Usual

In order for Black boys to get to the forefront of educational reform, they must see themselves there.
That's just one of the many reasons why it is so powerful having 26 year old Everton Blair become the youngest and first Black school board member in Gwinnett County, Georgia.

Everton Blair is not making education politics as usual. Politics intensifies the educational challenges in education.

The influences political views have on ESSA, vouchers, privatization of schools, the school to prison pipeline and educational rights of parents has life changing effects on many citizens.

This is why voting and advocacy are very important in how we improve support for education reforms.

I encourage stakeholders to hold their school systems accountable in the following ways to help build advocacy and voter engagement.

1. Encourage healthy and transparent relationships between city, county and school board.
2. Encourage honest, inclusive and trustworthy relationships between school District leaders, School Board, families and communities.
3. Ensure school District 's embed community engagement best practices into their mission and vision to help build effective advocacy support and partnerships with parents and stakeholders
4. Empower school board leaders to create policies that reflect and reinforce family and community engagement best practices to sustain relationships and empower stakeholder voices in decision making