{"id":8435,"date":"2015-02-23T10:48:56","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T15:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/?p=8435"},"modified":"2015-02-23T10:48:56","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T15:48:56","slug":"chavous-78-reflects-on-kingkennedy-history-and-education-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2015\/02\/23\/chavous-78-reflects-on-kingkennedy-history-and-education-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Chavous \u201978 reflects on King\/Kennedy history and education today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/02\/kevin-chavous-2015.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8436\" alt=\"kevin chavous 2015\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/02\/kevin-chavous-2015.jpg\" width=\"237\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/02\/kevin-chavous-2015.jpg 680w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/02\/kevin-chavous-2015-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><b>Kevin Chavous \u201978<\/b> visited Indianapolis, his hometown, in January.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/newpittsburghcourieronline.com\/2015\/01\/18\/kennedy-king-vision-found-in-indy-school\/\">Click here<\/a> to read his description of how as a child he learned of the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. \u00a0He also reflects on the present-day Oaks Academy in Indianapolis, a private elementary school.<\/p>\n<p>After Wabash, Kevin earned a JD from Howard University.\u00a0 He is an attorney and owner of the Chavous Group LLC in Washington, DC. \u00a0Kevin is a founding board member and executive counsel for the American Federation for Children and the Alliance for School Choice, and an author and national education reform leader.\u00a0 He is a former member of the Council of the District of Columbia and a former council chairman for The Council\u2019s Education Committee.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo courtesy of<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The Pittsburgh Courier.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Chavous \u201978 visited Indianapolis, his hometown, in January.\u00a0 Click here to read his description of how as a child he learned of the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. \u00a0He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/02\/kevin-chavous-2015.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8435"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8438,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8435\/revisions\/8438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}