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)
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The Lynchpin of Educational Inequality— And the Myth Behind It (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) Derek Black Racial segregation and unequal school funding persist at alarming levels. The percentage of intensely segregated schools serving students of color has increased in recent decades, more than tripling since the late 1980s. The gap between … [Read more...] about The Lynchpin of Educational Inequality— And the Myth Behind It (April – July 2023 P&R Journal)
School Finance as Racial Subordination (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) Osamudia James In September 2021, The New York Times Magazine featured a story about school reform. The article, “The Tragedy of America’s Rural Schools,” considered population loss and government disinvestment as central to school reform. Featured in the … [Read more...] about School Finance as Racial Subordination (April – July 2023 P&R Journal)
The Interconnection Between School Finance and 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) Introduction Nearly 70 years ago, the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education framed racial segregation as the cause of educational inequality. But Brown and its progeny never seriously examined the ways in which inadequate school funding is … [Read more...] about The Interconnection Between School Finance and Segregation (April – July 2023 P&R Journal)
Section 8 Tenants Are Using New Laws To Fight Housing Bias
By Jack Karp for Law360 | July 21, 2023 Landlords around the country routinely refuse to rent to tenants who rely on housing vouchers and other forms of financial assistance, so a growing number of low-income tenants and their advocates are using recently passed source-of-income laws to fight the practice. Megan Morse had hoped to use her rental assistance voucher to … [Read more...] about Section 8 Tenants Are Using New Laws To Fight Housing Bias
