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For Giving Tuesday yesterday, NCSD launched a fundraising campaign for a new website. Founded in 2009, NCSD’s website has not been upgraded in a decade! It’s time for the main hub of the school integration movement to move into the 21st century.
Contribute to NCSD's website fundraising campaign! (Donate via Facebook here.)
If you're not in a position to give, you can still help by sharing information with your networks on Twitter and Facebook. Thank you for your support!
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EJ-ROC AT NYU METRO CENTER LAUNCHES REAL INTEGRATION HUB | |
NC COURT HANDS DOWN HISTORIC RULING IN LEANDRO SCHOOL FUNDING CASE | |
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On November 4 in Hoke County Board of Education v. State, the North Carolina Supreme Court issued one of the most momentous decisions in school funding litigation history, ordering the state legislature to spend $1.75 billion in public school funding. The new decision is the long-awaited final aftermath of its 1997 decision holding that the state constitution guarantees every child a “sound basic education” and its 2004 finding that the state had failed in its constitutional duty to deliver that education, particularly for low-income and disadvantaged students.
The significance of the decision lies in the court’s holding that it had the power to provide immediate and direct relief in the face of “recalcitrant state actors.” Rather than allow the state to further delay or alter the remedy through legislative processes, the NC Supreme Court held that the lower court could immediately transfer funds from the state treasury for the remedy.
Related resources:
- NCSD member David Hinojosa of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law quoted in a press release: “Investing in the education of our most precious commodity, our children, is a win for the children and a win for the State of North Carolina and our future. We are thrilled with the Court’s powerful opinion that orders the State to take the necessary – and long overdue – steps to fulfill its constitutional obligation to provide a quality education to North Carolina’s kids."
- NCSD member Derek Black of the University of South Carolina quoted in The 74: “When the judiciary speaks, there is not some other option...The court just put down a flag post and every single court that grapples with this issue in the future will discuss this flag post, whether they agree with it or not.”
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Amicus Brief filed by NCSD member organizations the Education Law Center and the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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Action Plan requested by the trial court in 2018, which was developed by WestEd in partnership with NCSD member organization the Learning Policy Institute and the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation at North Carolina State University.
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NC Supreme Court orders historic transfer of education funding (WUNC, November 4)
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NC Supreme Court upholds lower court ruling to allocate millions to public education (Daily Tar Heel, November 4)
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NC Supreme Court orders state to increase funding for public schools in Leandro case (News & Observer, November 4)
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SUPREME COURT HEARS ARGUMENTS ON RACE-CONSCIOUS ADMISSIONS CHALLENGES | |
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On Monday, October 31, two cases challenging race-conscious admissions – SFFA v. University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (UNC) and SFFA v. Harvard – reached the U.S. Supreme Court where plaintiffs threatened to reverse over 45 years of legal precedent and progress to make higher education more equitable and accessible to Black and Brown students.
Recognizing that such hallmark policies have opened up many doors for talented students of color, NCSD member organization the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law helped students and alumni secure a strong voice and presence in the courts and defend attacks by those who wish to turn back the clock on progress, opportunity, and any meaningful effort to address our nation’s legacy of racial discrimination.
David Hinojosa, director of the Lawyers’ Committee Educational Opportunities Project, presented oral arguments before the Court on behalf of a diverse group of students and alumni, referring to the "145 years of exclusion suffered by people of color that made affirmative action necessary" and urging the Court to “stand firm in its commitment to ensuring racial equality and equal opportunity.” To learn more about the cases, visit the Lawyers’ Committee's website.
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IDRA Classnotes Podcast features two students and alumni from Harvard and UNC who served as intervenors and amici in the affirmative action case heard by Supreme Court on October 31. Listen to episode 229 "The Law in Education – Students Press for Affirmative Action."
- PRRAC board member Sheryll Cashin of Georgetown University authored an op-ed in Politico questioning whether the Constitution’s 14th Amendment guarantee of “equal protection of the laws” demands color blindness.
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NCSD STAFF UPDATES
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NCSD 2022 SUMMER INTERN PUBLISHES PAULI MURRAY ARTICLE | |
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NCSD couldn't be prouder of our 2022 summer intern Rebeka Cabrera (Yale, '24) for publishing her op-ed about Pauli Murray in Teen Vogue. The piece, "Pauli Murray: Who Was the Legal Advocate and Civil Rights Champion?," grew out of Beka's extensive research into Pauli Murray’s relatively unknown contribution to Mendez v. Westminster (and, eventually, Brown v. Board of Education). Beka's work also informed an interactive timeline, which NCSD plans to release in 2023, and the Happy Birthday Pauli Murray Twitter chat that took place on November 21 (more on that below).
Excerpt from the article:
"Murray’s articulation of personal rights and the threat that racial exclusion poses to these rights can help us navigate our current reality. Their words serve as a reminder that the racial injustice we witness today is inseparable from the violence and oppression upon which the US was built. We see the legacies of colonialism and slavery everywhere from school segregation to police brutality. Murray’s legal scholarship reminds us that the battle for racial justice is not over and requires us to address the legacies embedded in the foundation of this country."
Read the full article here.
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HIGHLIGHTS FROM HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAULI MURRAY TWITTER CHAT | |
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On November 21, in celebration of Pauli Murray's birthday one day earlier, NCSD and the Pauli Murray Center hosted a Twitter chat to highlight Pauli's scholarship and lived experiences related to segregation/integration. Murray's thinking eventually helped shape Brown v. Board of Education's legal strategy (unbeknownst to Murray until years later). Below are some resources shared and highlights from the conversation – please feel free to chime in with your own responses!
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A new book co-edited by NCSD member Joshua Bassett provides in-depth analyses of integration in areas of housing, education, media, law, and community engagement, and presents multidisciplinary perspectives on integration using Detroit as a case study. Detroit and the New Political Economy of Integration in Public Education features chapters by several NCSD members:
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Update:
- A new IDRA analysis, "What Virginia’s Anti-Equity Executive Order 1 and Reports Mean for K-12 Schools and Students," is designed as a guide for school leaders to help them continue to promote culturally sustaining school practices. "As part of a coalition of researchers, policy experts and civil rights lawyers committed to advancing educational equity and civil rights in Virginia's public school system, we are happy to share this evidence-based guidance," said NCSD Research Advisory Panel member Genevieve Siegel-Hawley of Virginia Commonwealth University.
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Updates:
- On Wednesday, December 7, from 3:00-4:00 p.m. ET the Learning Policy Institute will kick off a webinar series that explores the various elements of whole child policy featured in the Whole Child Policy Toolkit. In the webinar, "Whole Child Policy: Setting a Whole Child Vision," experts will share actions states can take to foster coherence and alignment around a whole child vision, including assessing statewide needs and assets and building data systems for continuous improvement. Learn more and register here.
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Update:
- SDN's latest blog post discusses a new research brief that explores contextual and political factors associated with attendance zone boundary data access and quality. The blog was authored by Sarah Asson, Annie Maselli, and Ruth Krebs Buck, graduate students at Penn State University and research assistants on the Longitudinal School Attendance Boundary Survey, which is led by NCSD Research Advisory Panel member Erica Frankenberg.
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RESEARCH ADVISORY PANEL (RAP) UPDATES
- A new report by Karen Babbs Hollett and Erica Frankenberg, Equity in Access to Quality Early Care and Education in Pennsylvania, explores variation in access to quality Early Care and Education (ECE) providers within the Pennsylvania’s three largest public ECE programs: Child Care Works, Pre-K Counts, and the Head Start Supplemental Assistance Program. The report examines differences in quality access by children’s race, economic status, and other child, community, and provider characteristics.
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Casey Cobb presented a paper at the University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA) annual meeting in Seattle, WA on November 18. “Understanding Why Students Leave Schools of Choice.” Co-authored by Chelsea Connery and Charles Wentzell.
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sean reardon was quoted in several articles related to pandemic learning loss, including The New York Times: "In a sophisticated analysis of thousands of public school districts in 29 states, researchers at Harvard and Stanford Universities found that poverty played an even bigger role in academic declines during the pandemic. 'The poverty rate is very predictive of how much you lost,' Sean Reardon, an education professor at Stanford who helped lead the analysis, told me." See also here, here, and here.
Learn more about our Research Advisory Panel here.
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NEWS FROM ACROSS OUR COUNTRY | |
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Schools Are Resegregating. There’s a Push for the Supreme Court to Consider That (Education Week, November 28) - "When the U.S. Supreme Court heard nearly five hours of arguments about the consideration of race in higher education on Oct. 31, much of the focus was understandably about the details of undergraduate admissions at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina...But in a handful of briefs filed with the court, and in some of the comments during the lengthy arguments, there were reminders that racial diversity among student enrollments remains a delicately pursued but often elusive goal in K-12 schools as well."
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Cecilia Marshall, Rights Advocate and Widow of Justice, Dies at 94 (The New York Times, November 24) - "Cecilia Marshall, who as an NAACP stenographer transcribed the legal briefs for the Brown v. Board of Education decision and then married Thurgood Marshall, the lawyer who successfully argued that landmark school desegregation case and who later became the first Black justice named to the United States Supreme Court, died on Tuesday at her home in Falls Church, Va. She was 94."
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The Supreme Court May Change The Landscape Of Ivy League Feeder Schools (Forbes, November 15) - "[I]in the wake of Brown v. Board of Education, elite private schools became silos for upper class white families to shield their children from school integration. Because of the high costs and, in some cases, deeply entrenched legacies of racial discrimination, elite secondary schools have struggled to diversify their campus communities."
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Jane Crow: Then and Now (Ed Post, Fall 2022) - "When discussing the history of segregation, powerful white men easily leap to mind. But the history of Jane Crow – the white women supporting white over Black – unearths the poisonous roots behind today’s educational battles."
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Education Week honors impact of local educators (Daily Titian, November 28) - "Sylvia Mendez, a retired nurse and civil rights activist who fought against the segregation of Hispanic children in education, was awarded the Distinguished Education Leadership Award. Mendez and her community’s accomplishments in Mendez v. Westminster, helped end the segregation of Hispanic children in California. This was the first case to deem school segregation unconstitutional under the 14th Amendment and paved the way for Brown v. Board of Education."
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A Brooklyn middle school integration plan shows some patterns are hard to break (Chalkbeat New York, November 14) - "IP]roponents of the District 15 plan – including educators, advocates, parents and students – are considering what happens after a school becomes more racially, ethnically, and economically mixed, and how to foster schools that are supportive of students and families from different backgrounds."
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- 'We had to press on’: Students who desegregated Orangeburg schools tell experiences (The Times and Democrat, November 6) - "Black students who desegregated Orangeburg’s schools in 1964, talked about school experiences and what life was like prior to integration. The panel discussion – called “Justice for all: A conversation about Orangeburg, school desegregation and the Civil Rights Movement” – was an extension of a traveling exhibit currently on display at the Orangeburg County Library."
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New Bridge kids mark Ruby Bridges’ historic school desegregation effort (Standard-Examiner, November 15) - "Students from the diverse school, which has nearly 600 kids, marched around adjacent Liberty Park on Monday as part of Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day, which marks the day Bridges first entered her New Orleans school on Nov. 14, 1960, integrating an elementary school in the South for the first time."
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CROSS-MOVEMENT RESOURCE LIST | |
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New report by the Education Justice Research and Organizing Collaborative (EJROC) at NYU Metro Center: Lessons in (In)Equity: An Evaluation of Cultural Responsiveness in Elementary ELA Curriculum "[J]ust how culturally responsive are public school curricula? This report seeks to directly address that question through a study of widely used English Language Arts (ELA) curricula in US public schools, using the Culturally Responsive Curriculum Scorecard, a tool designed to evaluate curriculum for cultural responsiveness."
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New article by Learning for Justice: Centering Diverse Parents in the CRT Debate "[W]e need to recenter the arguments around CRT in schools on the experiences and perspectives of the racially and culturally diverse parent majority in public education, to unify, rather than divide, parents, caregivers and teachers."
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Defending and Celebrating Early Racial Learning Virtual Summit
EmbraceRace
Join EmbraceRace on Saturday, December 3 at the “Celebrating & Defending Early Racial Learning” virtual summit, a free four-hour event featuring TED-style talks from educators, legislators, and school board members across the nation. You will hear honest and personal stories from teachers about early racial learning in schools, current on-the-ground coalition-building and legislative work on equity issues from our exciting slate of state legislators and school board trustees, and opportunities to engage and process with other virtual participants from around the nation about next steps.
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Nashville, TN
December 4-7
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2022 Annual Conference
Learning Forward
"The theme for 2022 is 'Reimagine.' Join us as we reimagine professional learning and celebrate the passion, dedication, and determination of educators who put learning first."
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Kansas City, MO
January 26-27, 2023
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Demanding Equity and Integration Annual Convening
Diverse Charter Schools Coalition
"This year’s convening will feature a mixture of formal programming for tangible takeaways and informal networking to share stories, experiences, and healing. Our theme of Demanding Equity and Integration will be prominent not just in programming, but also in unstructured dialogue."
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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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