PRRAC Update

In the new Poverty & Race: Reflections on the Long Island racial steering expose; STEM and school integration; and California’s progressive housing agenda. See the new issue here. The proposed AFFH rule is even worse than we expected: In contravention of the Fair Housing Act, the proposed rule eliminates any requirements to redress or analyze racial or economic … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (January 16, 2020): New Issue of P&R; More Bad News from HUD; Upcoming Webinar

Save the date for school integration: The National Coalition on School Diversity has scheduled its next national conference in DC on March 26-27; please save the date and we’ll have more information right after the holidays… Housing Mobility Demonstration expanded in the 2020 budget! In the recently released Omnibus Appropriations bill, the House and Senate have agreed to … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (December 19, 2019): 2020 School Integration Conference; New Progress on Housing Mobility; AFFH for PHAs

Giving Thursday:  Just in case you were out in the wilderness somewhere and missed "Giving Tuesday," there's still time to donate to PRRAC - and we need your support to keep going!   Please consider donating here so we can reach our ambitious goal by the end of December!   Reviewing Jessica Trounstine: PRRAC Senior Research Associate Brian Knudsen just published a … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (December 5, 2019): Segregation by Design; Upcoming Webinar

Title I "segregation incentives:" One of our perennial education policy concerns has been the continuing "penalty" built into the Title I school funding formula for districts that take steps to reduce school poverty concentration. Along with calls for a dramatic expansion of Title I funding for high poverty schools, we were pleased to see the issue called out in the education … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (November 22, 2019): Title I, Section 8, RAD

Record-breaking opposition to Trump Administration proposed "Disparate Impact" rule: The Federal Register notes that 45,488 comments were submitted by last Friday's deadline. This enormous show of opposition to the rollback is thanks in part to the coordinated efforts of groups who raised the alarm, including the coalitions Defend Civil Rights, Alliance for Housing Justice, and … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (October 24, 2019): Record-Breaking Opposition to Trump Administration Attack on Fair Housing; New School Integration Research at Upcoming Hill Briefing