PRRAC — Connecting Research to Advocacy
Poverty & Race Research Action Council
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By Steve Smith, Hartford Courant
Why aren’t Glastonbury schools more diverse? That wasn’t necessarily the question intended to be asked at the Community Conversation on ethnic diversity in schools, hosted by the Glastonbury Martin Luther King Community Initiative on Nov. 16 at the Glastonbury-East Hartford Magnet School, but according to some it was the proverbial elephant in the room.
The Poverty & Race Research Action Council (PRRAC) is a civil rights law and policy organization based in Washington, D.C. Our mission is to promote research-based advocacy strategies to address structural inequality and disrupt the systems that disadvantage low-income people of color. PRRAC was founded in 1989, through an initiative of major civil rights, civil liberties, and anti-poverty groups seeking to connect advocates with social scientists working at the intersection of race and poverty…Read More
