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GED statistics for 2007 show that 52.8 percent of GED candidates were white and 23.3 (19 percent for Hispanics). Among the people who passed, whites made up 61.6 percent, African-Americans 17.5 percent (Hispanics 16.3 percent). The White House probably does not know this important fact which affects workforce development, economic opportunities, college entrance, entrance into the military, parental involvement in schools, and the educational gap that people are writing about. Just listen to any well known African-American speak about education and race in America and you could win almost all bets that the GED is not included in the discussion. It is almost as though these people commenting on television, radio, in magazines or newspapers, or writing on the internet, do not know that the GED represents about one in six diplomas and that it is crucial to success of all adults. The emphasis is always on the children. Go to your next convention of the NAACP or some other organization and see if the same thing doesn’t happen. The NAACP website, promoting its Fifth Annual Leadership 500 Summit, has a video segment where a man says the focus has to be on “schools, jobs, and justice.”
See what USA Today wrote on February 24, 2009:
"We've never had waiting lists like this, ever," said Deborah Weaver, director of community education for Elkhart Community Schools.
David C. Harvey, president of ProLiteracy, a nonprofit literacy organization with 1,200 affiliates, said agencies that help people study for GEDs and other adult education classes are being deluged at a time when many are facing cuts in state funding and dwindling donations.
"This is quickly becoming a national crisis," he said. "Our programs have gotten hit with less resources, but in turn they have a huge increase in demand for services that they can't meet."
Weaver has seen that demand in Elkhart, where the school system in past years ran a monthly orientation to enroll people for GED classes. She stopped holding orientations in August because all available slots were filled and more than 100 people were on the waiting list, even though she had added three classes.
When the orientations resumed, 139 people showed up in late January for 100 spots, and Weaver said the phones ring daily with people hoping to sign up.
In New York City, the Fifth Avenue Committee, which runs a GED class for 22 students, usually has a waiting list of about 50 people. It now has 178 waiting to get into class.
African-Americans do not have George W. Bush to blame anymore. He is gone, but what is going to be done about this crisis? The first hundred days have past and people are going to say give Barack Obama a chance. The stimulus money is not being put into the GED at all. There will be less money in most places than there was a year before the economic crisis was taken up by Congress. Even in New York City, the District Attorney’s office told me that the “stimulus” money for reentry is for “treatment.” “Forty acres and a mule” was denied to African-Americans and now “Fifty dollars and a GED” will be denied to African-Americans (I was quoting myself). Do you think that President Barack Obama is going to eliminate the GED as a requirement so that African-Americans can have greater access to jobs? I do not think so. Then the answer is for each community to mobilize African-American adults toward the GED (and do not count on the classes to get that job done).

Maybe Bill Cosby (a famous GED graduate) has to form an organization made up of GED graduates and represent the millions of people who have no diploma, representing them in the media and at conventions. Aren’t we are an inclusive people these days? There is going to be a lot of hot air outside the hotel where the NAACP Summit will be held in Scottsdale, Arizona, but we want to keep the hot air down inside the meeting rooms. There are going to be few seats in schools for men and women coming out of jail as jails close down. The statistics that you read above are only going to get worse until almost white people graduate from high school and then minorities will make up a bigger percentage of GED graduates. It is time to play catch up education.

The key to the success of minorities does include the children, but not at the expense of adults. The percentage of African-American test takers should be 30 (Hispanics too) or more. The passing rate must come up, too, so more minorities can get the jobs where the GED is required. They should get good paying construction jobs, where there are unions that require the GED. The White House of the past never paid attention to this and now we must see what this White House is going to do. But are we going to wait around for the White House to act?

Here are the keys to success:

Take the GED as soon as possible after dropping out of school.
Do not depend on the classroom instruction. There are waiting lists and other roadblocks.
Take the Official GED Practice Test.
Stay away from fraudulent programs.

CUOMO SEEKS JAIL TIME FOR LONG ISLAND MAN WHO CONTINUES TO DEFRAUD NEW YORKERS THROUGH FAKE GED COURSES AND DEGREES
Repeat Offender Robert Collins Has Violated Several Court Orders To Close His Business
MINEOLA, NY (February 4, 2009) – Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo today announced his office is taking action to send a Long Island man to jail for continuing to exploit local residents through his fake GED home study courses. Robert Collins of East Meadow has duped thousands of consumers into enrolling in his fraudulent course, even though multiple court orders had already mandated him to permanently close his business. Cuomo is seeking restitution for the victims of this scheme and a 6-month jail sentence for Collins.
Collins, 68, runs two businesses – “Long Island Home Study” and “East End Home Study” – that falsely claim they can award genuine, state-authorized high school equivalency diplomas through an at-home General Education Development (GED) test. Collins’ actions had been barred by multiple court orders and judgments since 2005, but he continues to sell fake GED diplomas.
“This man has repeatedly preyed upon Long Island and New York City residents who are simply trying to better themselves and increase their career opportunities,” said Attorney General Cuomo. “Any individual or business that takes advantage of unsuspecting consumers and blatantly ignores court orders will face the consequences.”

Get my GED program. It will help you for life.
If you dropped out of school a long time ago, even if you are 55 years of age now, get your GED.
Get my GED program. It will help you pass the GED and get a better paying job.

What do you think President Barack Obama wants right now, another school named after him or 15 million minorities passing the GED and helping their families?

I am from Long Island and almost the same age as Robert Collins, but my program has strong backing, even from the office of Governor David Paterson and I am a vendor of the Department of Education of the City of New York, selling my GED program, the program that you should get for your community. I call on people everywhere to help Americans with my program and help them earn the GED even before people in class earn the GED. It’s about time to play catch up education.

I know you thought that I was done, but Hilary Shelton and others know that I am never done. John McCain called education a “civil right,” but we do not see him promoting education now that the 2008 campaign is over. See Hillary Clinton’s foreword to her 2008 platform on education. Today, Hillary Clinton announced a Youth Opportunity Agenda to address the silent crisis of disconnected youth in America. Hillary’s 35 years of experience fighting for children and families has taught her that every young person in America has potential. Yet today we are failing to realize that potential. More than four million of our young people between 16 to 24 are out of school and out of work. The number of these disconnected youth has grown an alarming 18% between 2000 and 2005. The situation of the 1.4 million young African American and Hispanic men who are out-of-work and out-of-school today is particularly troubling. These young men are less likely to graduate high school, more likely to end up in prison and are often left jobless and poor.

See Barack Obama’s platform now. Help Youth Connect with Growing Job Sectors: Barack Obama will create the 5-E (Energy Efficiency, Environmental Education and Employment) Disconnected Youth Service Corps. This program would directly engage disconnected and disadvantaged youth in energy efficiency and environmental service opportunities to strengthen their communities while also providing them with practical skills and experience in important career fields of expected high-growth employment. The program would engage private sector employers and unions to provide apprenticeship opportunities. The program also encourages summer high school students to stay in school, and provides GED help and other wrap-around social services for drop-outs.

Just when you thought I was done, I came back. Can you see how conservatives, moderates, and liberals conservatively, moderately, and liberally do very little for America’s poor and the education of minorities?

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