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Photo courtesy of the Learning Policy Institute.
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Earlier today, the Learning Policy Institute (LPI) hosted
"Bridging the Divide: School Integration Designs,
" where they released two new reports on school integration:
"Understanding the Federal Role in Protecting Student Civil Rights: A Focus on School Diversity"
profiles successful integration models across the country, and examine
s the importance of the federal role in protecting the civil rights of students.
A second report, "Sharing the Wealth: How Regional Finance and Desegregation Plans Can Enhance Educational Equity," explores how interdistrict desegregation programs in Boston, MA; Hartford, CT; and Omaha, NE have been designed, financed, and implemented.
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OUR POLICY AGENDA FOR THE NEW CONGRESS IS HERE!
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We are proud to present our 2019 policy agenda,
which is the result of months of work that started with us asking our network members: "What should the federal government be doing to incentivize school integration?"
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New EdBuild Report
Check out EdBuild's widely covered report,
23 Billion
. In the report researchers meticulously show how economic inequality results in a disparity of $23 billion between white and nonwhite school districts.
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New York City's
School Diversity Advisory Group
(SDAG) released a
report
with a bold vision for integration and equity in New York schools. SDAG is co
mprised of 40+ government stakeholders, local and national experts on school diversity, parents, teachers, advocates, students, and community leaders, including New York Appleseed and IntegrateNYC.
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- Sue Robinson: School Board Election Spurs Moment of Racial Reckoning (The Cap Times, January 31)
- Racial Segregation in the San Francisco Bay Area, Part 2 by Stephen Menendian and Samir Gambhir (Haas Institute, February 6)
- Getting to the Root of Our Public Education Crisis by Kara Finnigan and Jennifer Jellison Holme (Democrat & Chronicle, February 8)
- Why Our Education Funding Systems Are Derailing the American Dream by Jeff Raikes and Linda Darling-Hammond (Learning Policy Institute, February 18)
- Measuring Diversity Without Holding Schools Accountable Won't Bring About Integration by Andre Perry (The Hechinger Report, February 19)
- Honoring Origins and Helping Students Succeed: The Case for Cultural Relevance in High-Quality Instructional Materials (Chiefs for Change, February)
- America's Public Schools Seldom Bring Rich and Poor Together - and MLK Would Disapprove by Jack Schneider (Salon, January 21)
- Confronting Intergroup Anxiety: Can You Try Too Hard to be Fair? by Jingnan Peng (Christian Science Monitor, February 14)
- American Segregation, Mapped at Day and Night by Alvin Chang (Vox, February 18)
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Opportunity Starts at Home
Former Secretary of Education/CEO of Education Trust John King is interviewed about the connection between residential and housing segregation.
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Library Talks: How to Make Black Lives Matter at School
"As part of the nationwide campaign, Black Lives Matter at School Week, Schomburg Center's Associate Director of Education, Brian Jones organized a panel about this issue and how to challenge structural racism in schools. Featuring award-winning journalist, Nikole Hannah-Jones, public school teacher, José Vilson, and two NYC high school student activists, Xoya David and Joshua Brown."
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Integrated Schools
In these podcasts, parents and integration activists wrestle with how to responsibly and intentionally integrate schools. New in February:
Ep 11 - White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy
Ep 12 - Whiteness vs Rightness: A Conversation on Colonizing
Ep 13 - Hopes and Hazards of Dual Language
Ep 14 - Professor David Kirkland on Integration
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****LAST CALL ****
Would you or a member of your organization like to present to an audience of practitioners from schools, districts, CMOs, and other organizations at the "
Beyond Desegregation: Engaging Practices for Diverse and Equitable Schools"
conference
April 30 - May 2, 2019?
Submit your proposal to the Reimagining Integration - Diverse and Equitable Schools (RIDES) team by
TOMORROW, MARCH 1, 2019.
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City Garden Montessori School
Beloved Community
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Is social justice a priority in your classroom? Would you like to become more directly involved with Teaching Tolerance? Consider becoming part of their advisory board!
Being a Teaching Tolerance advisor is a great way to give back to the education community, learn more about our work and network with other anti-bias educators. The board was established in 2011 to help ensure that educational materials are relevant and reflect the diverse needs of educators working in school communities across the country. The board consists of classroom teachers, staff developers, librarians, school counselors and administrators who are currently active in K-12 education, including people working at the university level in teacher preparation programs.
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EPIC students will be performing "Overdrive" (about standardized testing) and "Nothing Without Us" (about segregation)
on March 4th and 5th in NYC. You definitely don't want to miss these two critically-acclaimed student-written plays.
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April 6, 2019
6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. EST
Researchers, coders, policymakers, parents, and students will come together to use real admissions data to make IntegrateNYC's students' vision for a transformed enrollment process a reality.
INYC students hope to further develop their prototype into a fully-functioning equity-based choice algorithm to serve all 300,000 NYC public high school students.
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May 10, 2019
6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. EST
We will explore these issues in panels on:
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Policies and Practices Perpetuating Racial Inequality
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The Role of the State Today
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Growing Critically Conscious Teachers
New York Times journalist and MacArthur Genius Grant recipient
Nikole Hannah-Jones
will keynote the symposium's luncheon.
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03/19/
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Host: METCO
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Boston, MA
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03/21/19
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Host: The Potter's House
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Washington, DC |
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04/10/19
04/13/19
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Host: Magnet Schools of America
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Baltimore, MD
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07/15/19
07/18/19
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Cambridge, MA |
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