Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Ga. legislature holds first 'Rural Black Family Day'

The Georgia legislature is inaugurating an effort to increase "black participation in agriculture and other professions in rural areas," reports Maggie Lee for the Macon Telegraph. The first Rural Black Family Day at the Capitol will be held Tuesday, Feb. 22. Rep. Al Williams said legislators will push for more professional schools at historically black colleges and universities, including a doctorate in veterinary medicine at Fort Valley State University, a law school at Albany State University and a graduate teaching school at Savannah State University.

Sen. Robert Brown of Macon, said public school education also needed improvement. "There are too many people who are literally stuck in rural Georgia because they have been under-prepared by the education system. ... If they do come to Atlanta, they go directly to becoming almost a permanent economic underclass." (Read more)

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