Does a constitutional crisis start when the President defies an explicit court order? Or when he signs an executive order to eliminate the Department of Education (which can’t be eliminated by executive order)? Or when he directs the Education Secretary to dismantle the Department without technically “eliminating” it? Or all of the above? PRRAC at the Just Economy … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (March 20, 2025): the dismantling; upcoming conferences; new CBPP report
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PRRAC Update (March 6, 2025): AFFH redux; NCSD steps up; and new books!
AFFH: alive or dead? Good question. In an “Interim Final Rule” published in the Federal Register this week, the Trump Administration put forth a meaningless new “definition” of the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing obligation, and removed all accountability provisions, including the weak system of reporting set up by the Clinton Administration back in 1994. Of course, the … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (March 6, 2025): AFFH redux; NCSD steps up; and new books!
PRRAC Update (February 20, 2025): more lawless guidance; new social housing toolkit; support school diversity Feb 28!
Hyper-overreach by the new Office of Civil Rights at ED: Trying to put teeth into the President’s executive orders on DEI and racial preferences, the Department of Education has released an aggressive and unlawful new “guidance letter” that threatens, under the auspices of Title VI, a cutoff of funds for any school district, state education agency, or university that seeks to … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (February 20, 2025): more lawless guidance; new social housing toolkit; support school diversity Feb 28!
PRRAC Update (February 6, 2025): Diversity??
Come out and support "diversity" on February 28: When the National Coalition on School Diversity chose its name in 2009, some of us thought that the word “diversity” was too weak – that we should be explicit about school integration, or even desegregation – but Diversity was the word that the five members of the Supreme Court had just blessed in the Parents Involved case as an … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (February 6, 2025): Diversity??
PRRAC Update (January 16, 2025): Some final thoughts from HUD (and Feb 28 school diversity conference!)
Community Choice Demonstration: HUD issued a report this week on the initial implementation of the housing mobility demonstration funded by Congress in the 2019 and 2020 Appropriations Acts. Titled “Rapid Cycle Evaluation Report: An Early Look at the Community Choice Demonstration,” the report assesses first-year results for the eight sites in the demonstration (Cleveland, Los … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (January 16, 2025): Some final thoughts from HUD (and Feb 28 school diversity conference!)
