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
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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
PRRAC Update (March 19, 2015): Housing and schools; fair housing and the bank settlements
Housing and schools - can we talk? Most of the recent efforts to link housing and school policy have focused on place-based programs that help to improve student outcomes but are not designed to reduce racial or poverty concentration. Our new policy brief, "Linking housing and school integration policy: what federal, state and local governments can do," updates our 2011 … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (March 19, 2015): Housing and schools; fair housing and the bank settlements
PRRAC Update (February 19, 2015): Inching forward
Improving the turnaround schools model: In its announcement of the final rules for the School Improvement Grants program, the Department of Education has indicated that SIG funds can be used to support a magnet school type model, "to promote college and career readiness as well as more diverse and integrated classrooms." This announcement reflects advocacy by PRRAC and the … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (February 19, 2015): Inching forward
