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AFCGF has several initiatives, including Black Minds Matter, a national movement to celebrate Black minds, support excellence, and promote the development of high-quality school options for Black students. They encourage and empower elected officials, community members and families to be innovative,
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AFC's Future
Leaders Fellowship is designed to identify and develop new leaders in the educational choice movement. It is a twelve-month advocacy training program for graduates of publicly created K-12 school choice programs.
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AFCGF activities include assisting affiliate organizations in states, hosting informational events, working with parent activists and community leaders to enact and implement state programs, and publishing two magazines, the
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demand excellence in education, and increase the number of schools founded by Black individuals. Black owned school directory is the first-ever online directory to promote schools founded by
African Americans.
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is the chair of the AFCGF board, as of 2023, and Tommy
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programs. AFCGF supports the creation and expansion of
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862:"Voucher supporters look to new ally"
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219:History of education in Massachusetts
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