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We're making steady progress in our efforts to remove the "anti-busing riders" - sections 301 and 302 - from the 2018 Appropriations Bill. Please continue to share information about our petition and engage with your legislators. Click links to find updates and a fact sheet you can use.
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THERE ARE TONS OF WAYS TO PLUG INTO THE SCHOOL INTEGRATION MOVEMENT THIS MONTH!
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Cutting School deftly traces the financing of segregated education in America, from reconstruction through Brown v. Board of Education up to the current controversies around school choice, teacher quality, the school-to-prison pipeline, and more, to elucidate the course we are on today: the wholesale privatization of our schools." Read more...
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HAPPENING TONIGHT!
Calling All Parents!
Integrated Schools Book Club to Discuss Cutting School by Noliwe Rooks
Integrated Schools is kicking 2018 off with a hard-hitting look at the relationships between segregation and privatization.
Its January Book Club selection is
Cutting School
by Noliwe Rooks.
RSVP below to participate in a casual, online discussion of the book -- you will get a chance to talk with the author herself!
TONIGHT (January 29th) at 6PM PST
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PRRAC seeking information about efforts to connect housing and schools
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Are you aware of any efforts to combine school and housing integration work, or to bring together state and local housing and education (and transportation) officials to explore the issue, as the Obama Administration had encouraged?
Over the next year, the Poverty and Race Research Action Council aims to expand the knowledge base on interventions that leverage the housing-school policy connection in support of integration. We are putting together a report that will include examples of joint housing-school-transportation planning activity. We are also planning a late fall conference on the housing-school connection, at which we plan to highlight what we've learned from the field.
If you know of examples of efforts that would be worth highlighting, please
fill out this form with a few details and we will follow up with you!
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Can We Really Raise Inclusive Kids in Segregated Neighborhoods?
(Embrace Race Webinar)
| Listen here. Find more Embrace Race webinars here. |
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Integrated Schooling: Strategies and Benefits for Diverse Learning
(IDRA EAC-South Webinar)
In this
webinar, learn about the great social and academic benefits integrated schools can bring to communities and successful strategies happening in the field today.
Additional information
here.
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Resources from the
Summit for Civil Rights
, hosted by the Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity and its partners, were recently posted here. The Summit, held November 9-10, 2017 at the University of Minnesota Law School, "was a powerful convening of people and institutions advocating for racial justice, social inclusion and economic opportunity. Hundreds of delegates, panelists, participants and speakers came from across the country representing organized labor, law, academia, civil rights organizations, the faith community, and local and national government."
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NEWS: Integration Across the Nation
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| New Resources and Publications |
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| Check out this series of resources offered by IDRA EAC-South related to recruiting and retaining teachers of color, including:
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Diverse, Equitable and Inclusive K-12 Schools: A New Call for Philanthropic Support
This report makes the case for philanthropic investment in racially, culturally, and socioeconomically diverse K-12 public schools. Authors Susan Eaton and Suchi Saxena offer an overview of work in this field, its evolution, its growing popularity, supportive research base and hopeful contemporary examples. The report provides a variety of paths for funders to support this work in ways that align with common philanthropic strategies and priorities.
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Educators: Share your promising practices for diverse and equitable schools
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RIDES has been scouring published material and the web for promising practices, but not all the good ideas and approaches have already been written about. By sharing your approaches, you will help others.
- RIDES will post selected responses, along with your name and the name of your school or district or charter management organization on our website.
- Some practices will be selected and highlighted as exemplar cases during our Moving Beyond Desegregation Institute in Spring 2018 (save the date info below). If one or more of the practices you share is selected for presentation at the conference, we will waive your conference fee to have you come and present it.
Please contact Whitaker Brown at whitakerbrown@gmail.com if you have any questions.
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Upcoming Events of Interest
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Reimagining Integration Practices Conference
Harvard Graduate School of Education
More info coming soon
here.
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Reimagining Education Summer Institute
Teachers College, Columbia University
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01/30/18
12:30PM |
All the Colors We Are: The Story of How We Get Our Skin Color (Parent Lunch & Learn)
Host: Center for Education and Civil Rights |
University Park, PA |
02/05/18
5:30PM
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Host: Alliance for Quality Education of New York
NCSD members IntegrateNYC and NYC Appleseed will participate.
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Bronx, NY |
02/07/18
02/09/18 |
2018 National Policy Training Conference
Host: Magnet Schools of America |
Washington, DC |
02/07/18
5:30PM |
Hosts: NYU's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and The Century Foundation
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Washington, DC |
02/27/18
03/01/18 |
The Kerner Commission at 50 Conference
Host: Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at UC Berkeley, 21st Century Cities Initiative at Johns Hopkins University, Economic Policy Institute
(*Some speakers will be presenting virtually from Baltimore, MD, for the main conference in CA. There is no registration fee to attend the Baltimore event, but space is limited. Reserve a ticket.)
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Berkeley, CA
Baltimore, MD* |
03/01/18
03/03/17 |
Alumni of Color Conference: Radicalize, Reimagine, Reconstruct
Host: Harvard Graduate School of Education |
Cambridge, MA |
04/25/18
04/28/18 |
36th National Conference on Magnet Schools
Host: Chicago Public Schools & Magnet Schools of America |
Chicago, IL |
04/25/18
04/26/18 |
Emerging Best Practices: Preventing and Addressing Bias-Based Incidents in Schools (email for info)
Hosts: Boston Public Schools Office of Equity and Boston Educational Development Fund
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Boston, MA |
| 05/02/18 |
All Children, Our Future: Civil Rights and Education Conference
Host: The Leadership Conference Education Fund |
Washington, DC |
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"Color of Law" Book Tour with Richard Rothstein
Richard Rothstein continues his tour for his recent book, Color of Law, which uncovers a forgotten history of how racially explicit policies of federal, state, and local governments created patterns of residential segregation that persist to this day. See tour destinations and dates below.
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National Coalition on School Diversity
c/o Poverty and Race Research Action Council
Website: school-diversity.org
Email: school-diversity@prrac.org
Mailing Address: 740 15th St. NW #300 Washington, DC 20005
Phone: 202-544-5066
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