Recent PRRAC Advocacy and Related Materials

• Supporting School Integration Through the Federal Housing Choice Voucher Program (AIR, September 2023)
• The Persistence of School Segregation in the United States, its Effects on Racial Disparities in School Funding, Achievement, and Discipline, and the Failure of the U.S. Government to Sufficiently Address the Problem (July, 2022)
• Comment Letter: Re Proposed Charter School Priorities (PRRAC, April 2022)
• Comment Letter: Meaningful Collaboration Between Housing and Education Agencies in the Implementation of AFFH  (PRRAC et al, September 2021)
• How Real Estate Agents Can (and Should) Promote Diverse Schools (a project in collaboration with the National Association of Realtors©, June 2021) 
• A Steady Habit of Segregation (NAACP LDF, PRRAC, Open Communities Alliance, Sillerman Center, October 2020)
• Comment Letter: Support of the Equity and Inclusion Enforcement Act, H.R. 2574 (PRRAC et al, September 2020)
• State Support for Local School Construction: Leveraging Equity and Diversity (PRRAC, August 2020)
• Model State School Integration Policies (NCSD & PRRAC, May 2020)
• Improving Outcomes for All Students: Strategies and Considerations to Increase Student Diversity (January 2017)

Recent NCSD Highlights

• PRRAC and NCSD Affiliates in the Media Following SCOTUS Affirmative Action Ruling (July 2023)
• Research Brief 15: School Choice Programs and Resegregation (Casey Cobb, March 2022)
• NCSD submitted a letter suggesting improvements to the Department of Education’s Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC). Nearly 40 signers joined the letter (February 2022).
• Video – Panel: School Discipline and (De)segregation: A Cross-Movement Conversation (NCSD. October 2021)
• Strength in Diversity Act Brief 1: Which Districts Might Benefit From the Strength in Diversity Act? (NCSD, May 2021)
• Press Release: Education and Civil Rights Groups Urge Congress to Use the Federal Budget to Increase Access to Integrated and Inclusive Schools (NCSD, LCCUL, April 2021)
• Policy Brief 12: School Integration Priorities for a Biden/Harris Administration (NCSD, January 2021)
• 10 Ways the Biden/Harris Administration Can Prioritize School Integration in its First 100 Days (NCSD, December 2020)
• Using CARES Act Flexibility to Address Systemic Educational Inequities & Bring Students Together (NCSD, August 2020)
• Via Politico, NCSD Puts Their Pro-Busing Advocacy Efforts Into Context, as 2020 Democratic Presidential Primary Features Discourse on Busing (June 2019)
• State of Integration 2018 Report: Chronicling Some of the School Integration Setbacks and Progress Across the Country (Released June 2019)
• June 2019 Politico Coverage of Legislative Pro-School Integration Effort in Congress
• Press Release: NCSD Lauds the Introduction Strength in Diversity Act (May 2019)
• NCSD & Century Foundation Hill Briefing: How Congress, States, and School Districts Can Take Action on School Diversity (April 2019)
• NCSD Policy Proposal: A School Integration Policy Agenda for 2019 and Beyond (January 2019)
• NCSD Strategic Plan 2018-2020

Conferences

The NCSD hosts a biannual conference that brings together engaged practitioners, academics, activists, and youth to build relationships, formulate strategies, and celebrate school diversity.

• “A Struggle We Must Win: Advancing School Integration through Activism, Youth Voice, and Policy Reform” (agenda from the 2017 conference, held at Teachers College, Columbia University)
•  “21st Century School Integration: Building the Movement for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” (special issue of Poverty & Race, based on workshops at the 2015 conferences, held at Howard Law School).

Recent NCSD Policy Briefs

• Policy Brief 12: School Integration Priorities for a Biden/Harris Administration (NCSD, January 2021)
• State Support for Local School Construction: Leveraging Equity and Diversity, (PRRAC, August 2020)
• Policy Brief 11: Model State School Integration Policies (NCSD & PRRAC, May 2020)
• Policy Brief 10: Title I Funding and School Integration (NCSD & PRRAC, March 2020)

Recent NCSD Research Briefs

• Research Brief 15: School Choice Programs and Resegregation (Casey Cobb, March 2022)
• Research Brief 14: Is There Systemic Meaningful Evidence of School Poverty Thresholds (Roslyn Arlin Mickelson, September 2018)
• Research Brief 13: Re-Weaving the Social Fabric through Integrated Schools: How Intergroup Contact Prepares Youth to Survive in a Multiracial Society (Linda R. Tropp & Suchi Saxena, May 2018)
• Research Brief 12: Can Socioeconomic Diversity Plans Produce Racial Diversity in K-12 Schools (Genevieve Siegel-Hawley, Erica Frankenberg, & Jennifer Ayscue, October 2017)
• Research Brief 11: How to Support the Social-Emotional Well-Being Students of Color: Research & Best Practices from Interdistrict Integration Programs (Carol Learned-Miller, September 2017)
• Research Brief 10: The Complementary Benefits of Racial and Socioeconomic Diversity in Schools (Genevieve Siegel-Hawley, Erica Frankenberg, & Jennifer Ayscue, March 2017)

Recent NCSD Advocacy

• February 2022: NCSD submitted a letter suggesting improvements to the Department of Education’s Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC). Nearly 40 signers joined the letter.
• January 2022: NCSD submitted a letter advocating for critical school diversity funding (the Fostering Diverse Schools Program) to remain in the FY 2022 budget. 70+  signers joined the letter.
• January 2022: NCSD submitted a letter in support of bringing the Strength in Diversity Act (H.R. 729) to the House floor for a debate. 60+ signers joined the letter.
• July 2021: NCSD submitted a letter in response to the Department of Education’s Request for Information Regarding the Nondiscriminatory Administration of School Discipline. Nearly 30 signers joined the letter, which highlights several recommendations from NCSD’s 2021 School Integration Priorities for a Biden/Harris Administration.
• July 2021: NCSD submitted a letter in response to the Secretary’s Supplemental Priorities and Definitions for Discretionary Grants Programs.
• April 2021:  Over 40 organizations and individuals joined NCSD in submitting a letter to the leadership of the Senate and House Appropriations Labor-HHS Subcommittee requesting: increased investment in the Magnet Schools Assistance Program (at least $500 million); $120 million to support comprehensive, locally-led strategies to promote racial and socioeconomic integration; and a campaign to make states, districts, and communities aware of existing resources under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and other federal funds that can be used to support school integration. Read the press release here.

Selected Articles from Poverty & Race About School Diversity

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