PRRAC — Connecting Research to Advocacy
Poverty & Race Research Action Council
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By Amanda Ulrich, Education Week
Fourteen socioeconomically and racially diverse charter schools from eight different states have joined together to form a national coalition to share resources and promote the creation of more schools like them across the country.
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
