Sign up for PRRAC’s biweekly newsletter here. Excerpted from Poverty & Race, Volume 32, No.2 (April – July 2023) Phil Tegeler Funding disparities between school districts are driven by racial and economic segregation, and yet progressive state legislatures have generally bypassed desegregation in favor of compensatory funding for districts with greater student … [Read more...] about Unintended Consequences of School Finance Reform? An Initial Exploration. (April – July 2023 P&R Journal)
Browse School Diversity at PRRAC
PRRAC strongly supports federal, state and local efforts to increase racial and economic integration in K-12 education. We do this work primarily with and through the National Coalition on School Diversity (NCSD), which we helped to found in 2009 along with former staff from the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute at Harvard Law School, and leadership of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and the ACLU. Members of the NCSD Steering Committee include the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, PRRAC, ACLU, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights, MALDEF, AALDEF, Kirwan Institute, NY Appleseed, UNC Center for Civil Rights, and the UCLA Civil Rights Project, along with a small group of prominent legal scholars. Since 2009, PRRAC has served as the primary staff and fiscal agent for the NCSD, with active support from many of the NCSD member organizations for specific advocacy campaigns, and volunteer contributions by members of the NCSD Research Advisory Panel.
For more on PRRAC’s work on education and school diversity, visit our page on the Housing-School Nexus.
Equitable and Diverse: Schools for the 21st Century (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) 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)
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)
