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— Philip Tegeler, president and executive director of the Poverty & Race Research Action Council, said in an email that Harris “deserves a lot of credit for starting a conversation about school integration in the campaign — and we’re gratified that most of the other candidates have now taken up the issue as well.”
— Achieving racial and economic integration in public schools involves a range of basic strategies, he said, such as school assignment zones, controlled choice plans, magnet schools and interdistrict transfer programs. Also needed, he said, are accompanying strategies — “inclusive school climates, teacher diversity, equality of resources in relation to student need, integrated classrooms, culturally responsive curriculum and adequately trained teaching staff.”
— PRRAC doesn’t take positions on candidates, he said, but his organization’s research shows Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), former HUD Secretary Julian Castro and Biden have “pretty robust proposals on school integration.” He added, “Castro, Sanders and Warren have also explicitly connected housing and school integration.”
