{"id":25470,"date":"2025-11-22T17:48:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T17:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.richmondfriendsmeeting.org\/?p=25470"},"modified":"2025-11-22T17:48:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T17:48:15","slug":"support-for-redd-elementary-school-richmond-public-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richmondfriendsmeeting.org\/dev\/2025\/11\/22\/support-for-redd-elementary-school-richmond-public-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Support for Redd Elementary School, Richmond Public Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_section et_pb_section_0  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et_section_regular et_block_section\" >\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_row et_pb_row_0  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et_block_row\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_column_4_4 et_pb_column et_pb_column_0  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et-last-child et_block_column\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_module et_d4_element et_pb_text et_pb_text_0  et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><p><!-- divi:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">As part of our commitment to racial justice, RFM volunteers contribute to student learning at<br \/>Richmond\u2019s Elizabeth Redd Elementary School. The student population is 96% economically<br \/>disadvantaged and 94% minority (56.6% of the students are African American, and 34.2%<br \/>Hispanic\/Latino).<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/divi:paragraph --><!-- divi:paragraph --><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Currently, eight RFM volunteers are involved at Redd. Our Spanish-speakers work with<br \/>students in that language and all volunteers meet weekly with students, supporting<br \/>them in math and other subjects as well as emotionally. RFM volunteers also pitch in<br \/>during special events such as field days.<!-- \/divi:paragraph --><!-- divi:paragraph --><\/li>\n<li>Recently RFM had the opportunity to advocate for student and faculty health. When the<br \/>local newspaper reported longstanding neglect of the condition of Redd Elementary<br \/>School leading to possible asbestos and black mold exposure, we wrote to the<br \/>superintendent of Richmond schools, the city\u2019s mayor, and the House and Senate<br \/>members of the Virginia General Assembly charged with appropriations to schools.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!-- \/divi:paragraph --><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[520],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race-and-racism"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 18:27:46","action":"category-remove","newStatus":"draft","terms":[346],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richmondfriendsmeeting.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/richmondfriendsmeeting.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/richmondfriendsmeeting.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richmondfriendsmeeting.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richmondfriendsmeeting.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/richmondfriendsmeeting.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richmondfriendsmeeting.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richmondfriendsmeeting.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richmondfriendsmeeting.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}