It Happens Once A Year…RARE Scholarship Winners
It happened again this year…. Roosevelt Alumni for Racial Equity (RARE) awarded scholarships worth $6,500 each to two outstanding graduating […]
A Benefit of Getting Older!
Hi Friends, It’s been a long time since I was a student at Roosevelt High School. However, a few years […]
What Connections Crew Students Told Us About Belonging and Learning
We recently interviewed Connections Crew students to better understand a question many people understandably ask: does Connections help students academically? […]
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Becoming Part of the Solution
In June of 2020, following the egregious killing of George Floyd and the racial reckoning that followed, my long-time friend […]
Seattle Schools Ethnic Experience is Discussion Group Topic
RARE donors are invited to join committee members for a 90-minute online discussion, “Seattle Schools’ Ethnic Experience Inside and Out” […]
Scholarship Fund Nears Self-Sustaining Status
The James A Davis Memorial Scholarship fund has topped $137,000! RARE would like to express its gratitude to all donors, […]
Integrated Teams Level the Playing Field
The story of RARE started with sports – specifically the Roosevelt High School football and basketball teams from the class […]
RARE Reaches First Scholarship Goal
The first of RARE’s goals is about to be realized. The James A. Davis Memorial Scholarship will be awarded to […]
Put Your Personal Statement on the RARE Donors Wall
From the beginning of RARE, we had reason to be optimistic that we could raise money for the James A. […]
“We Hear You”
Recently, Lauren Kirkpatrick wrote a moving and telling Student Voices column in the Seattle Times about racism in the Bellevue […]
About Those Photos on the RARE Website
Every picture tells a story, but sometimes the story is told by the pictures that are absent, too. As we […]