Continuing progress on school diversity: The Department of Education issued final guidelines and funding invitation(s) for state charter school grants this week that included priority points for school diversity. While the point totals were more modest than we would have liked, these steps represent an increasing emphasis on school integration at the Department. In the … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (June 18, 2015): School integration developments in charters, Head Start, and NYC; LIHTC in St. Louis
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PRRAC Update (June 4, 2015): Small Area FMRs!
Potential progress on housing mobility: HUD has issued an "Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking" to expand the use of the successful "Small Area Fair Market Rent" methodology for setting Housing Choice Voucher Rents in certain metro areas with high levels of Section 8 voucher concentration and clustering. Small Area FMRs, which originated from a 2007 civil rights lawsuit in … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (June 4, 2015): Small Area FMRs!
PRRAC Update (May 1, 2015): Diversity in Pre-K, HUD’s 50th anniversary, Baltimore
School integration in pre-K: Read our new report, with the Century Foundation, A Better Start: Why Classroom Diversity Matters in Early Education, by Jeanne L. Reid and Sharon Lynn Kagan, along with Michael Hilton and Halley Potter. "Over the past decade, public investments in early childhood education have increased; however, largely missing from early childhood policy … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (May 1, 2015): Diversity in Pre-K, HUD’s 50th anniversary, Baltimore
PRRAC Update (April 21, 2015): Girls of color and school sports opportunities; Connecticut
Finishing Last: Girls of Color and School Sports Opportunities: Our new study with the National Women's Law Center (released today!) links school segregation with a lack of high school sports opportunities for girls by comparing opportunities available in 90%+ white schools vs 90%+ minority schools. The report shows that at both the state and national level, heavily minority … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (April 21, 2015): Girls of color and school sports opportunities; Connecticut
PRRAC Update (April 2, 2015): Transit-oriented development; child support
Transit-oriented development - who benefits? A new PRRAC study by UC-Berkeley researchers Miriam Zuk and Ian Carlton assesses whether transit-oriented development is opening up new housing opportunities for low income families, or simply replicating old patterns of subsidized housing location: "Equitable Transit Oriented Development". In the new Poverty & Race: "The … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (April 2, 2015): Transit-oriented development; child support