June 10, 2010

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Cincinnati NAACP

Cincinnati Public Schools continues to fail to hire African Americans to build public schools.  Cincinnati Public School families can not feed their families because CPS continues to engage in Jim Crow economic policies.  African Americans did not get contracts on Chase and it looks like Clark High School will follow the same pattern.  "The African American Community must be prepared to reject all Cincinnati Public School levies.  It is time for the State of Ohio to take over Cincinnati Public Schools and fire all administrators who are responsible for failing our children and our families for decades," Christopher Smitherman, President of the Cincinnati NAACP says.   

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Cincinnati Public Schools will hire Gene Ellington to track minority inclusion numbers.  The Cincinnati NAACP is concerned that Gene Ellington has failed to deliver contracts for African Americans.  "Ellington is getting paid while African American contractors are starving. The Cincinnati NAACP did not want a Cincinnati insider to track contracts for CPS," Smitherman says.   

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The Cincinnati NAACP will actively fight for children in Cincinnati Public Schools.  The Cincinnati NAACP will use every financial resource to defeat any school levy the school board attempts to put on the ballot.  "We will stop their $100 million operating school levy.  CPS should get their votes from Turner and all of the workers from Kentucky and Indiana that have received the benefit of the $1 billion in contracts.  I am tired of driving by massive construction projects on warm summer days and not seeing African American contractors, Smitherman says.