By Patrick Wall, The Atlantic Under President Trump, the federal role in education is set to be drastically curtailed. Last Thursday, Trump proposed slashing federal spending on schools by $9 billion. His education secretary, Betsy DeVos, has vowed to shrink her agency and return power to local officials, which could mean scaling back civil-rights enforcement. All of these … [Read more...] about How Betsy DeVos Could End the School-Integration Comeback (The Atlantic)
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Imperfect Choices: With Integrated Schools Out Of Reach, Segregated Options Gain Favor (Hartford Courant)
By Kathleen Megan and Matthew Kauffman, Hartford Courant Connecticut's network of regional magnet schools, long hailed as a national model for voluntary integration, still serve only a fraction of Hartford students a generation after their racial isolation was deemed unconstitutional. And those magnets, slipping in their effort to meet racial quotas after the 1996 Sheff v. … [Read more...] about Imperfect Choices: With Integrated Schools Out Of Reach, Segregated Options Gain Favor (Hartford Courant)
In Hartford, ‘Integrated’ Schools Remain Highly Segregated (Hartford Courant)
By Matthew Kauffman, (Hartford Courant) In 2015, National Public Radio pointed its microphones at Connecticut, reporting on the unlikely success of Hartford's desegregation efforts. Ira Glass, host of "This American Life," described how other cities had given up on integration or seen their efforts fail. "And then, even more remarkable, in at least one city in Connecticut, … [Read more...] about In Hartford, ‘Integrated’ Schools Remain Highly Segregated (Hartford Courant)
How Attacks on the Administrative State Can Be Attacks on the Most Vulnerable (Spotlight on Poverty)
By Megan Haberle, PRRAC Many Americans who benefit from federal health, safety, and other regulations nevertheless succumb to the rhetoric and are led to believe that they are victims of government red tape and an overly burdensome bureaucracy. However, despite its negative connotations, the administrative state is often central to the government’s work in protecting and … [Read more...] about How Attacks on the Administrative State Can Be Attacks on the Most Vulnerable (Spotlight on Poverty)
State Sued over Housing Discrimination Law (Houston Chronicle)
By Rebecca Elliott, Houston Chronicle Texas' law ensuring landlords may refuse to rent a home to those receiving federal housing assistance is unconstitutional and violates the Fair Housing Act, a Dallas-based advocacy group alleges in a federal lawsuit filed against the state this week. … [Read more...] about State Sued over Housing Discrimination Law (Houston Chronicle)
