NCSD STAFF UPDATES
What We've Been Up To Recently
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Seeking Senate Appropriation for "Fostering Diverse Schools" Budget Request
As we reported last month, the House Appropriations Committee approved $100 million for a competitive grants program called “Fostering Diverse Schools” in the 2022 budget bill. The appropriations bill now moves to the Senate, where it is anticipated it will be taken up this Fall. The House Appropriations Committee also approved the President’s request for an increase to $149 million in the Magnet Schools Assistance Program; we are urging the Senate Committee to further increase that amount. See the related House report here.
Strength in Diversity
The Strength in Diversity Act is still pending in the House and has not yet been introduced in the Senate. We continue to meet with Senate staff to raise awareness about the bill's importance. Let us know if you are looking to connect with your Senators about this important proposed legislation.
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New Collaboration with The School Diversity Notebook
NCSD has been working with member organization The School Diversity Notebook to plan #CiteNite, a quarterly discussion of integration-related research that can inform our movement. We'll announce our first set of speakers in the coming weeks. Stay tuned!
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Law & Policy Internships (PRRAC/NCSD)
PRRAC (where NCSD is housed) is seeking part-time law student interns for the Fall semester. The interns will work remotely. Interns generally work 15 hours per week, on a volunteer basis or for course credit. The intern will assist with our array of work on housing, education, and related issues. To apply, please submit a resume, cover letter, and writing sample to Peter Kye, Policy Counsel, at pkye@prrac.org. |
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New Policy Briefs:
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Segregation Persists in Rural School Districts Despite Rising Ethnoracial Diversity: "We find that rural America and its public school districts are experiencing growing diversity and rising poverty…Drops in the share of White students and rises in poverty were both substantially more pronounced in districts with a majority of Black, Hispanic, or American Indian and Alaskan Native students. Further, while most rural students became less ethnoracially isolated within their districts, after accounting for each ethnoracial group’s share of rural enrollment, minoritized rural students are the most segregated."
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METCO has moved into a new office, with an official ribbon-cutting set for Oct. 5. Save the date!
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METCO's new space will display some of the program's amazing history and celebrate the memories and achievements of those who have come before. Anyone looking to offer contributions can reach out to Colin Stokes at cstokes@metcoinc.org.
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Update:
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LDF policy counsel Hamida Labi and senior policy counsel Megan Haberle argue in an op-ed for The Hill that the Congressional infrastructure deal provides funds for many issues facing our nation, but fails to address a glaringly urgent matter: national funding for school infrastructure.
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RESEARCH ADVISORY PANEL UPDATES
NCSD RAP member Linda Tropp and co-authors Eric D. Knowles, Mao Mogami published When White Americans See “Non-Whites” as a Group: Belief in Minority Collusion and Support for White Identity Politics: "In a 3-year longitudinal study, the belief in minority collusion and support for White identity politics increased significantly among a nationally representative sample of 2,635 White Americans…Essentialist perceptions of the White ingroup were associated with longitudinal increases in minority collusion beliefs, but not in support for White identity politics. Endorsement of minority collusion and support for White identity politics both predicted lower support for Black Lives Matter and greater support for the Alt-Right movement.”
NCSD RAP member Roslyn Mickelson and her co-editor Toby Parcel edited a special issue of the American Behavioral Scientist entitled School Desegregation and Resegregation in the Upper South. The capstone article for the special issue (The Past, Present, and Future of Brown’s Mandate: A View from North Carolina) was coauthored by Mickelson, Jennifer B. Ayscue, Martha C. Bottia, and Jerry J. Wilson. Reflecting on the state's past and present, the authors forecast if North Carolina will be able to accomplish Brown's Mandate before the decision reaches its 100th anniversary in 33 years, offering both pessimistic and optimistic predictions.
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NEWS FROM
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Related: In this five-minute video, Janel George, Georgetown University Law Center Associate Professor of Law and the founding Director of the Racial Equity in Education Law and Policy (REELP) Clinic, discusses the importance of Critical Race Theory to examining and redressing the types of laws, policies, and practices that perpetuate racial inequity.
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Report: A New Federal Approach to School Integration, Inspired by Student Activists by Miriam Nunberg & Laura Petty (The Century Foundation, Aug. 16) - "The recommendations in this report are inspired by a student-created integration framework—the “Five Rs of Real Integration”—and rooted in past use of Title VI as a tool for enforcing educational equity. We trace how this framework, rooted in Supreme Court and Title VI precedent, can form the basis for expanded federal Title VI enforcement focused simultaneously on three of the 'Five Rs': resources, race and enrollment, and restorative justice. We use New York State as a model to propose how OCR/DOJ could apply this strategy in states across the country as the cornerstone of a proactive agenda under the new administration."
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Time to Revisit the History of School Integration in the North by Zoë Burkholder (GWU's History News Network, Aug. 1) - "Perhaps the most essential lesson of this long and fraught history is that real change is possible when citizens organize, name racist practices, and work together to demand specific reforms. Educational reform must be connected to larger structural reforms designed to remedy racial injustice, uproot white supremacy, and secure Black dignity and freedom. This history serves as a solemn reminder of the unfinished battle for Black educational equality, and as an impassioned call to action for all those who believe in the promise of public education to advance equal opportunities, civil rights, and justice for all."
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Cops at the Schoolyard Gate: How the Number of Police Officers in Schools Skyrocketed in Recent Decades — and Made for a Harrowing Education for Black and Brown Youth by Kristin Henning (Vox, July 28) - "Given how little school-based arrests achieve, current policing strategies can no longer be justified as necessary for school safety. The unnecessary and extreme discipline of Black youth has little to do with the school-based massacres of the 1990s. Columbine can’t explain police involvement in routine school discipline, discriminatory enforcement of school rules, or massive spending on the police infrastructure in American schools. And it certainly can’t explain the violent force that is used to control children of color. It is about time we admit that our infatuation with policing Black children in schools was never about Columbine."
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Opinion: Students Need to Learn About the Haters and the Helpers of our History by Michele L. Norris (Washington Post, July 23) - "The Tennessee Moms argue that her book, 'Ruby Bridges Goes to School: My True Story,' contains too many truths that cut too close to the bone. The mothers find the story objectionable, citing a description of a 'large crowd of angry white people who didn’t want Black children in a white school.' They say that’s too negative a rendering of a moment that is well documented in books, film and photography."
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Critical Race Theory and the New ‘Massive Resistance’ by Mark Keierleber (The 74, Aug. 18) - "[T]he backlash is part of the complex, centuries-long history of racism and oppression that some educators have sought to confront, particularly after George Floyd was murdered by a Minneapolis police officer in May 2020. Specifically, they’ve likened the blustering rhetoric of Critical Race Theory’s staunchest critics — and legislative efforts across the state to prohibit teachers from discussing systemic racism — to 'massive resistance,' an effort by white segregationists in Virginia to thwart school desegregation for years after the Brown decision."
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CROSS-MOVEMENT RESOURCE LIST |
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What Does “Gentrification” Really Mean? by Miriam Axel-Lute (Shelterforce, Aug. 17) - "The word 'gentrification' has become a widespread and highly debated term. We’ve found that there are (at least) four broad kinds of things that people mean when they say they are concerned about 'gentrification.'
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How Twin Cities Housing Rules Keep the Metropolitan Area Segregated by MaryJo Webster & Michael Corey (Minnesota Star Tribune, Aug. 7) - “'Zoning is being used to regulate who can live in what communities,' said Nelima Sitati Munene, co-chair of the equity advisory committee of the Metropolitan Council, a regional planning agency that promotes and helps finance higher density housing. 'We could argue about what the intentions were until kingdom come, but it doesn’t matter. What has this meant for the people who have been excluded all this time? And what has been the impact for the people who have benefited?'”
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The Forgotten Asians in the School Admissions Reform Debate by Brandon Kim (The Century Foundation, Aug. 11) - "The idea that any disruption to the status quo would harm Asians is a false narrative. One of the most insidious forms of anti-Asian racism that persists is the treatment of an extraordinarily diverse group of people as a monolith. Opponents to reform position themselves as the mouthpiece for the entire Asian American community, but they do not speak for all of us. Especially not people like me."
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African American Policy Forum (AAPF) |
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Southeast Asia Resource Action Center (SEARAC) |
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Hosted by the Public School Forum of NC, The Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity, and the Center for Child and Family Policy at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy, this conference seeks to build deeper connections across the fields of research, policy, and practice and bring together communities, educators, policymakers, experts and other key stakeholders focused on developing action-oriented approaches for achieving racial equity in education in North Carolina.
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Arts Education Partnership (AEP) - Arts and education leaders from across the nation will convene virtually on Sept. 14-15 to explore solutions aimed at ensuring all learners receive a well-rounded education that includes the arts.
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NSBA's Council of Urban Boards of Education (CUBE) - CUBE has convened school board members from across the nation for the past 53 years to network and share the continually evolving strategies they are using to address the unique educational challenges that exist in our nation's urban centers.
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Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender Annual Conference (OSCLG) - The conference will feature interdisciplinary scholarship, performances, and activism around the theme of Witnessing.
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10/13 - 10/15
Baton Rouge
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Magnet Schools of America - Explore topics...within the framework of MSA's Five Pillars as we Navigate the Future of Magnet Together this fall!
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Grantmakers for Education - Celebrating 25 Years - A Vision for the Future of Learning and Justice
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10/20- 10/23
Hybrid:
San Antonio, TX
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Education Law Association - The conference features an array of panel discussions, breakout sessions, round tables, and poster sessions on a range of substantive topics as well as on the teaching, study, and practice of education law.
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10/20- 10/24
In-Person:
Philadelphia, PA
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Council of the Great City Schools - Under the banner “Education for Liberation,” the conference will give big-city school superintendents, board members, senior administrators, and college deans of education a forum to discuss issues and share information and best practices to improve teaching and learning.
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10/28 - 10/29
In-Person:
Newark, DE
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Critical Race Studies in Education Association - Theme: Racial Realism in Real Time: (Re)Committing to and (Re)Invigorating Our Struggle for Empowerment through Research, Activism, and Praxis.
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Contact Us
National Coalition on School Diversity
c/o Poverty and Race Research Action Council
Mailing Address: 740 15th St. NW #300
Washington, DC 20005
Phone: 202-544-5066
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