PRRAC — Connecting Research to Advocacy
Poverty & Race Research Action Council
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By Rob Cullen, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Haven’t I read this before? That thought kept popping into my head as I went over “Expect Great Things,” the new strategic plan from Pittsburgh Public Schools. Of course I hadn’t — it was only released a few weeks ago — but it’s easy to see why it felt so familiar.
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
