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By Rex Fortune III, Vice President Rex Fortune Elementary School in Roseville CA, named in honor of our CEO, Dr. Rex Fortune, for his contributions to California public education, recently started construction with a groundbreaking ceremony held on April 7, 2002. This will be a traditional public school by Center Joint Unified School District, and was approved by their school board back in 2002, while Dr. Fortune was serving as their Superintendent of Schools for 15 years. The school is expected to open in Fall 2023. Fortune and Associates congratulates Dr. Fortune and thanks Center Joint Unified Schools for honoring...

  INTRODUCTION If this proposal appears audacious, it is respectfully offered as a bold, non-traditional recommendation that the current crisis demands. It will partially define a “building back better” approach to advancing the economic, educational and social development of African Americans. STRATEGY SUMMARY UNITE WILLING AFRICAN AMERICANS, IN SELECTED STATES AND CITIES, IN A NATIONAL  ECONOMIC, EDUCATIONAL, AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT (EESD) PROGRAM. INCENTIVIZE SELECTED TWENTY LARGE CITIES AND TWENTY STATES WITH LARGEST AFRICAN AMERICAN POPULATIONS TO SUPPORT THE ECONOMIC EDUCATIONAL AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS. INCENTIVIZE LARGE CORPORATE ORGANIZATIONS TO SUPPORT THE EESD MOBILITY STRATEGY FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN FAMILIES....

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Presentation at Yolo County Office of Education, by Dr. Rex Fortune Jr., January 2020 from Rex Fortune   THANK YOU FOR YOUR KIND INTRODUCTION & INVITATION FOR ME TO SHARE THIS CELEBRATION OF WHAT WOULD BE DR. KING’S 92ND BIRTHDAY. FOUR QUESTIONS WILL GUIDE OUR DISCUSSION TODAY.                       HOW DID MICHAEL KING BECOME DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.? WHAT WERE THE MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF DR. KING? IF DR. KING WERE ALIVE TODAY, WHAT WOULD BE HIS MAJOR CONCERNS? WHAT WILL I DO THAT DEMONSTRATES THE EFFECT DR. KING’S LEGACY ON MY LIFE? DR....

Overview This paper recommends that the legislature undertakes, as one of its approaches to addressing the achievement gap, the implementation of a strategy to address the lowest performing public school student group, not including those already in special needs programs. The strategy would include, but not be limited to, the educational establishment as the deliverer of necessary services to pre-school, elementary, secondary students- as well as their adult parents or guardians. It would also engage the California Community College System and the California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation as described below. Introduction The strategy would focus on nine California counties*...

The California Department of Education (CDE) sent an “Official Letter” to County Superintendents of Schools on November 28, 2018 detailing new information regarding the Low-Performing Students Block Grant (LPSBG) for Fiscal Year 2018-19. The letter provided the link where the apportionment schedule is posted. The size of the apportionment that any school district, charter school or county office is scheduled to receive is tied to the number of eligible students they have who are not otherwise identified for supplemental grant funding under the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) or eligible for special education services. I reviewed those apportionments and found...