• Ensure funding for:

  • Clean, safe, updated, and modern school facilities for all our children

  • Raising the number of nurses, social workers and school counselors per student in the schools to nearer the number recommended by professional organizations

  • Fairly compensating teachers and paraprofessionals in high needs schools or lowering class size to make workload equitable to that of teachers of more affluent students.

• Increase school board member decision transparency and expand community input opportunities as it relates to the 2022 superintendent search process and other key decisions. 

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Financial Empowerment Equity

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• Engage banks to innovate and invest various forms of growth capital into low and moderate-income areas.

• Engage foundations to provide “social business funds” to invest in socially conscious, low-income entrepreneurs’ start-up costs.

• Hold local financial institutions accountable to fully comply with or exceed Community Reinvestment Act requirements (CRA) and related agreements; seek commitments from those not in the highest compliance; resist any attempts to ease CRA regulations.

 

Transportation Equity

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• Double the operational funding for MATA over the next three years and work with elected officials to find dedicated long-term sources of funding.

• Increase the number and speed of routes to underserved communities and resist reductions of service.

• Advocate for more funding from the corporate, municipal, state, and federal resources for bus upgrades.

• Engage foundations and others to fund innovative and alternative transportation in low-income communities.

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Community Dislocation and Affordable Housing

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• Hold Memphis Housing Authority accountable to their commitment for the return of the former residents of Foote Homes.

• Reserve 1/3 of the new housing complex for the lowest stratum of low-income residents of the city.

• Ensure that 300 former Foote Home households are ensured residence in the new development.

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 Labor and Employee Rights

• Engage with voters to educate them on upcoming election topics, such as the current amendments to the Tennessee constitution pertaining to labor rights to be voted upon on November 8th.