By Philip Tegeler. (School Integration Matters: Research-Based Strategies to Advance Equity, Teachers College Press, Edited by Erica Frankenberg, Liliana M. Garces, and Megan Hopkins, 2016)
Excerpt: “The Department of Education has made great strides in its recent guidance documents on school discipline and resource disparities. The next step is to move from a complaint and enforcement model to a system that requires state and local grantees to consider the racial consequences of their actions before they are taken and to include an assessment of current and future patterns of segregation that largely drive racial disparities in resources and outcomes for low-income children.”
