Sign up for PRRAC’s biweekly newsletter here. Excerpted from Poverty & Race, Volume 32, No.2 (April – July 2023) David Sciarra Every state constitution affirmatively mandates its legislature to maintain and support a system of elementary and secondary schools open to all children. This means that the states, not local school boards or the federal government, are … [Read more...] about Equitable and Diverse: Schools for the 21st Century (April – July 2023 P&R Journal)
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Resource Equity, Desegregation, and Fulfilling the Promise of Brown (April – July 2023 P&R Journal)
Sign up for PRRAC’s biweekly newsletter here. Excerpted from Poverty & Race, Volume 32, No.2 (April – July 2023) Saba Bireda and Ary Amerikaner Policies that allocate resources to schools and policies that assign children to schools are clearly and deeply interconnected. Brown v. Board of Education’s decree that separate is inherently unequal was premised on the … [Read more...] about Resource Equity, Desegregation, and Fulfilling the Promise of Brown (April – July 2023 P&R Journal)
Separate and Unequal: The Need for a Nuanced Accounting of the Inequities Created by Segregation (April – July 2023 P&R Journal)
Sign up for PRRAC’s biweekly newsletter here. Excerpted from Poverty & Race, Volume 32, No.2 (April – July 2023) Ann Owens School segregation contributes to inequalities in educational and later life outcomes. Because of the long legacy of structural racism and income inequality in the United States, children from different backgrounds bring unequal economic, … [Read more...] about Separate and Unequal: The Need for a Nuanced Accounting of the Inequities Created by Segregation (April – July 2023 P&R Journal)
Understanding the First, Second, and Third Order Effects on Disparities in K-12 Funding and Outcomes (April – July 2023 P&R Journal)
Sign up for PRRAC’s biweekly newsletter here. Excerpted from Poverty & Race, Volume 32, No.2 (April – July 2023) Bruce D. Baker, Matthew Di Carlo, and Preston Green In the spring of 2022, our team released a report that explained the connection between decades of housing discrimination in the United States and deficits in school funding and student outcomes (Baker, … [Read more...] about Understanding the First, Second, and Third Order Effects on Disparities in K-12 Funding and Outcomes (April – July 2023 P&R Journal)
K-12 Schools Remain Free to Pursue Diversity Through Race-Neutral Programs (April – July 2023 P&R Journal)
Excerpted from Poverty & Race, Volume 32, No.2 (April – July 2023) Sign up for PRRAC’s biweekly newsletter here. David G. Hinojosa Ahead of the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) v. Harvard and SFFA v. UNC (2023), there was great trepidation among the civil rights community and others on how far the ruling could extend … [Read more...] about K-12 Schools Remain Free to Pursue Diversity Through Race-Neutral Programs (April – July 2023 P&R Journal)