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"What Now? Advocates for Curriculum Change to Support Integration" panel discussion at the Reimagining Education Conference at Teachers College, Columbia University. The panel discussion featured Roxana Duenas, Matt Gonzales, Nyah Berg, Julisa Perez, Aneth Naranjo, Sonia Khan, and Sage Gladstone.
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Milliken@45: #ThurgoodWasRight
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July 25, 2019 marked the 45th anniversary of Milliken v. Bradley. The majority opinion in the case hobbled Brown v. Board of Education by giving undue weight to arbitrary political boundaries, dividing predominantly Black Detroit public school school systems from their predominantly White suburban counterparts. The case effectively resulted in the prioritizing of political boundaries over the desegregation of schools and bolstered "white flight" to the suburbs.
Justice Thurgood Marshall famously dissented in the case, writing
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"Our Nation, I fear, will be ill-served by the Court's refusal to remedy separate and unequal education, for unless our children begin to learn together, there is little hope that our people will ever learn to live together."
"In the short run, it may seem to be the easier course to allow our great metropolitan areas to be divided up each into two cities - one white, the other black - but it is a course, I predict, our people will ultimately regret. I dissent."
Related Resources:
"[A]lmost 9 million students in America--one in five public schoolchildren--live virtually across the street from a significantly whiter and richer school district. For every one student enrolled in a whiter and richer district in our study, three of their neighbors are left behind in lower-funded schools serving far more nonwhite students."
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Join in on the action by tweeting now and through the upcoming Democratic debates on July 30 and 31:
#ThurgoodWasRight
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Sample tweets:
- #ThurgoodWasRight - we must take the more difficult course and remedy "separate and unequal education."
- #ThurgoodWasRight: 45 years later and we live with the consequences:
"[I]t may seem to be the easier course to allow our great metropolitan to be divided up each into two cities...but it is a course, I predict, our people will ultimately regret.
- .[Presidential candidate Twitter handle] do you believe #ThurgoodWasRight and that it's time to act boldly to remedy school segregation?
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For more information check out this
blog
and related podcast, featuring the authors, from the School Superintendents Association.
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Strength in Diversity Act
Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) has joined fellow Democratic Presidential primary candidates Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT), and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) in cosponsoring the bill.
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2019 NCSD Policy Agenda
With education/school integration being an increasingly hot topic in the presidential contest, check out our
policy agenda and this
helpful explainer (updated 6/28/19) from the Poverty & Race Research Action Council on the candidates' stances on school diversity and educational equity issues.
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"BUSING" AKA SCHOOL INTEGRATION
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CROSS-MOVEMENT READING LIST
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Urban Institute's new research report on how charter schools affect school system segregation:
"In the first nationally comprehensive examination of charter school effects on school system segregation, we demonstrate that growth in charter school enrollment increases the segregation of black, Hispanic, and white students."
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This detailed summary of the 2019 Othering & Belonging conference is intended as a point of engagement for those who are interested in being part of their future work and public events that are organized around the Institute's framework of belonging.
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| 2019 Othering and Belonging Conference Recap |
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A working paper from Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia challenges the conventional wisdom on how much gentrification causes the displacement of low-income residents. Read an article summarizing the findings from
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Researchers from the Annenberg Institute at Brown University
"document patterns and trends in school segregation by racial/ethnic group and by family income in North Carolina between 1998 and 2016, a period of rapid immigration, decline in federal oversight, and growth of charter schools. Accounting for students in both public and private schools, [they] find that segregation generally increased over the period, with the increase concentrated in urban areas."
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For your reading pleasure...
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Louisville: Jefferson County Public Schools Hailed as Integration Success Story, Starts to Experience Setbacks
- Read more via the New York Times: "'Right now, we're doing our best to fight back Jim Crow and Jane Crow Jr.,' said Delquan Dorsey, Ms. Lewis's son, who works as the district's community engagement coordinator. 'We know separate but equal doesn't work.'"
Boston: New School Superintendent and Latinx Parents Being Excluded
New York City: IntegrateNYC, Housing Policy and Segregation, School Integration Grants
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| IntegrateNYC is Fighting for School Integration via PBS Newshour |
- A recent article in Chalkbeat provides "a rundown of how school districts in New York City plan to work towards more diverse classrooms," after receiving $200,000 grants from the city's education department last month "to gather feedback and ideas, and ultimately craft their own diversity plans."
Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue: Tax Credits for Religious School Tuition?
- "The U.S. Supreme Court...agreed to review a decision [in Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue]...that struck down a tuition tax-credit program which, as enacted by that state's legislature, allowed tuition scholarships to benefit students at private religious schools as well as secular schools." Read more from Education Week here.
Cruz-Guzman v. State of Minnesota: Charter Schools Not Subject to Desegregation Orders?
- A federal judge in Minnesota has ruled for the time being that Minnesota charter schools will continue to be exempt from the state constitution's rules regarding desegregation. Parties in the lawsuit are now engaged in mediation.
"The case, Cruz-Guzman v. State of Minnesota, was initially filed in 2015 on behalf of a handful of public school parents in the Twin Cities. These plaintiffs allege that Minnesota's increasingly segregated public schools are operating in violation of the state Constitution, which affirms that 'it is the duty of the legislature to establish a general and uniform system of public schools.'"
Read more from The Progressive here.
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Jim Crow of the North - Full-Length Documentary
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- Want to learn more about the history of widespread racial disparities and segregation in housing and schools in Minnesota? Check out this documentary from Twin Cities PBS "Jim Crow of the North."
- "Civil rights advocates say [the department's approach under Devos] is too narrow and misses the opportunity to identify problems that extend beyond any one person's experience."
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| American Youth Policy Forum |
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| Black Teacher Project |
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Center for Collaborative Education
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The Center for Education & Civil Rights at Penn State
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| The Century Foundation |
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Child Trends
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City Garden Montessori
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| D.C. Policy Center |
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The Education Trust
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| The Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Fund |
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| Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at UC Berkeley |
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Learning Policy Institute
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NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
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Southern Poverty Law Center
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| San Francisco Unified School District |
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08/05/19
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Host: National Conference of State Legislatures
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Nashville, TN
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| 8/13/19 |
Host: NYT Magazine
An evening of conversation and performance featuring Nikole Hannah Jones, Wesley Morris, Jamelle Bouie, Tyehimba Jess and more to "[examine] the many ways the legacy of slavery continues to shape and define life in the United States."
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New York City, NY
(livestream available)
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Berkeley, CA |
| 10/24/19 |
Host: American Education Research Association
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Washington, DC |
| 10/26/19 |
Host: The Public School Forum of North Carolina, The Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity, and Policy Bridge at Duke University Sanford School of Public Policy
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Raleigh, NC |
10/28/19
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Host: Magnet Schools of America
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Albuquerque, NM
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