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SEPTEMBER 2024 UPDATES

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Professor Zoë Burkholder discusses The Impact of Brown v. Board of Education on Black Teachers Outside of the South, 1934-1974 at Brown University's Annenberg Institute during an event organized by NCSD Research Advisory Panel member John Diamond (co-hosted by NCSD). We'd love to collaborate with you too! Send inquiries to jroberson@prrac.org.

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What We've Been Up to Recently

EVENTS AND RESOURCES

NCSD co-hosted an event with Research Advisory Panel member John Diamond of Brown University's Annenberg Institute. The hybrid event included a presentation of NCSD's newest report by Professor Zoë Burkholder, which examines the complex history of how Brown v. Board of Education impacted Black teachers in the North, and interdisciplinary panel discussion on the historical link between desegregation, Black educators, and racial justice. Recording available soon!

Brown's Promise released its research agenda, created with substantial input and collaboration from a community of practice hosted by Brown’s Promise, NCSD, and the Education Law Center. The document lays out a comprehensive set of research questions re: the relationship between school segregation and resource inequities that aims to set the stage for transformative improvements in public education.

UPCOMING EVENTS

  • We hope to see you at Magnet Schools of America's Policy Training Conference in Arlington, VA on October 2-4!
  • NCSD Director Gina Chirichigno will attend Learning Forward's Title II-A Symposium in Orlando, FL on October 29-30.
  • Gina Chirichigno is scheduled to present at the Education Law Association conference in November, alongside Professor Janel George of the Racial Equity in Education Law Policy Clinic at Georgetown Law.

Let us know if you're interested in connecting with us at an upcoming event or exploring a potential collaboration! Contact gchirichigno@prrac.org.

NCSD MEMBER UPDATES

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  • As featured in The New York Times, the Youth Journalism Coalition (directed by The Bell) is now accepting applications for the first cohort of Journalism for All, a citywide, public-private initiative to build sustainable journalism programs in underserved public high schools. In 2025, the initiative will provide three years of support to an initial cohort of 30 high schools. Learn more and apply by November 4.

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  • Halley Potter of The Century Foundation's Bridges Collaborative recently discussed how the Supreme Court's 1974 Milliken v. Bradley decision severely limited the federal role for advancing the vision of Brown v. Board in ways that continue to fuel school segregation today.

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  • A recent article by IDRA's Paige Duggins-Clay analyzes the Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo decision’s impact on education and civil rights. The ruling undermines the Chevron doctrine, affecting federal education regulations and civil rights enforcement, and could challenge protections under Title IX.

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  • LPI’s new interactive tool allows policymakers and practitioners to estimate the financial cost of teacher turnover in their school, district, or state. These estimates can inform decisions about investments in policies that better prepare, attract, support, and retain a diverse, high-quality teacher workforce, and the resource also includes research-backed strategies for building a strong and stable teacher workforce.

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CROSS-MOVEMENT RESOURCE LIST

  • Request for School Mergers Feedback: Elementary school mergers—i.e., pairing or tripling adjacent elementary schools so that each serves a smaller number of grades—can foster more racially/ethnically integrated schools. The Plural Connections Group (PCG) at Northeastern University has developed a new tool that school districts can use to explore what mergers could look like in their districts; how much mergers might reduce segregation; and in what ways they might affect families' travel times and other factors. Provide feedback for the PCG team here. In the feedback survey, you can also indicate if you'd be willing to connect with the PCG team further to discuss how mergers could work in your district. Email Nabeel Gillani (n.gillani@northeastern.edu) with any other feedback or questions!


  • A new article by Sheryll Cashin, "Brown v. Board of Education: Enduring Caste and American Betrayal," "reflects on the role of residential caste in reproducing school segregation and how the Supreme Court betrays the equality principles of Brown by applying a colorblind constitutionalism that renders so-called de facto residential caste, and subsequent school segregation, acceptable."


  • A new report by Rick Kahlenberg for the Progressive Policy Institute, "Improving Housing for Working Americans," urges the federal government to "provide powerful incentives for localities and states to enact measures to reduce exclusionary land use policies that artificially drive up housing prices and exclude families from opportunity." 


  • A new article by Bruce Baker "provides a review of prior empirical work exploring whether and to what extent school district racial composition affects the costs associated with providing equal educational opportunity to achieve a common set of outcomes... [and finds] that for majority Black enrollment urban districts, the predicted costs per pupil are 20 to 50% higher when using models with this measure than when using models with race neutral alternatives.


  • A new article in Nature by Tyler Simko adapts "Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithms from legislative redistricting to redraw school district boundaries that decrease segregation while maintaining desirable criteria like distance to school and using only existing school facilities." Focusing on New Jersey, the author finds that "redrawing school districts could reduce more than 40% of existing segregation in the median New Jersey county, compared to less than 5% for redrawing attendance zones alone."


  • According to a new report, "5 Reasons To Pay Attention to Local School Board Elections," from the Center for American Progress: "School board members, in their role as approvers of attendance zone boundaries, have a lot of power to reverse the current trend of school resegregation. But to do so, districts need school board members who put equity at the center of their decision-making and deeply understand the harms of school segregation."

NEWS FROM ACROSS OUR COUNTRY

Ary Amerikaner and Saba Bireda of Brown's Promise and Ramin Taheri of Magnet School of America were featured in this ABC News story about the resegregation in America’s schools 70 years after Brown v. Board. Way to go! See also Saba Bireda's recent op-ed in The 74 on the Milliken v. Bradley decision and its impact on truly realizing the promise of Brown today.

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  • NYC lawmakers to vote on bill authorizing study on slavery’s legacy and reparations (1010 WINS, Sept. 11) - "New York City lawmakers are set to pass legislation this week that would authorize a study on the legacy of slavery and racial injustices in the city, which could include potential reparations...The first step seems to be figuring out what role New York City government played in slavery and slavery's overall harm and legacy in the city in the last century and a half."

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  • Surviving Brunswick 15 share stories of courage, struggle (Richmond Free Press, Sept. 12) - "Six members of the first integrated class at Brunswick High School, from left, Queen Marks Birchette, Carolyn Burwell-Tolbert, Elvertha Cox Gillis, Sandra Goldman Jackson, Marvin Jones Sr. and Florence Stith-Jackson, spoke about their experiences at the Library of Virginia."
  • Humanizing History by Teaching with Primary Sources (KQED, Sept. 10) - "Teacher Miranda Lyle asks students in her fourth grade class what they notice about a historical photo during a social studies lesson on segregation and integration...Last spring, her students gathered on the rug as they kicked off a social studies unit on school desegregation in Virginia, where they live."

Brown's Promise

Diverse Charter Schools Coalition

Education Law Center

EdFund

Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality

Legal Defense Fund

  • Deputy Director of Policy
  • Senior Policy Counsel/Associate
  • Equal Protection Initiative and Pro-Truth Policy Counsel
  • View all LDF openings

METCO

New America

Open Communities Alliance

Poverty & Race Research Action Council

Redress Movement

Rutgers University-Newark’s Center on Law, Inequality and Metropolitan Equity

Teens Take Charge

Detroit Partnership for Education Equity & Research at Wayne State University

Call for Presentations: #MSA2025


Magnet Schools of America seeks proposed panels, presentations, roundtables, and workshop for its next national conference, to be held in Nashville, TN from April 7-10, 2025. Proposals should be centered around MSA's central pillars:

  • Diversity
  • Innovative Curriculum and Professional Development
  • Academic Excellence
  • Leadership
  • Family and Community Partnerships

Apply here by October 18, 2024.

DC

Washington, DC

October 2-4

Magnet Schools Policy Training Conference

Magnet Schools of America


"This conference offers a unique platform to enhance your understanding of the vital role magnet schools play at the federal level. It’s your chance to make sure your voice is heard and to learn from experts and peers about advocating for the future of magnet education."

MN

Minneapolis, MN

October 16-18

Grantmakers for Education 2024 Annual Conference

Grantmakers for Education


"What is the public promise of education in a vibrant and inclusive multiracial democracy? In an era when democratic processes are routinely tested, defended and changed, this is the central question that education philanthropy is poised to engage at the Grantmakers for Education 2024 Annual Conference. This is a landmark year, with a national election in the U.S. and milestone anniversaries of historic moments and movements: passage of the Indian Citizenship Act, the Brown v. Board of Education decision, the Stonewall Riots, and more recently, the launch of the internet, global social platforms and artificial intelligence. These and other pivotal events demonstrate that transformational change comes from the efforts of individuals and collectives to reconcile tensions, affirm truths, exchange ideas and act."

CO

Denver, CO

October 21-25

National Assembly for Family Engagement in Education

The National Association for Family, School and Community Engagement


"The 2024 National Assembly in Denver, Colorado will bring together educators, practitioners, policy makers, researchers, and funders to share experiences, learn best practices, build their capacity, and network with each other as we pursue a world where family engagement is universally practiced as an essential strategy to improving children’s learning and advancing equity."

FL

Miami, FL

October 29-30

Title II-A Symposium

Learning Forward


"This two-day learning event is designed to help districts and states strategically plan, implement, and evaluate their use of Title II-A funding to support comprehensive professional learning in their systems. Title II-A is the only federal funding source dedicated to professional learning for teachers and leaders, providing over $2 billion per year to states and districts to implement effective instruction through the preparation, recruitment, and development of educators."

There had to be people willing to challenge.

I thought if I could open the door, then other people would be able to walk through.


–Ernest Green, one of the Little Rock Nine who helped desegregate Arkansas schools on September 23, 1957

Founded in 2009, the National Coalition on School Diversity is a cross-sector network of 50+ national civil rights organizations, university-based research centers, and state and local coalitions working to expand support for school integration. NCSD supports its members in designing, enacting, implementing, and uplifting PK-12 public school integration policies and practices so we may build cross-race/cross-class relationships, share power and resources, and co-create new realities.

NCSD MEMBERSHIP

NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund * Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund * American Civil Liberties Union * Poverty & Race Research Action Council * Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law * Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund * Magnet Schools of America * One Nation Indivisible * Southern Poverty Law Center * Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School * Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles at UCLA * Campaign for Educational Equity, Teachers College, Columbia University * University of North Carolina Center for Civil Rights * Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at the Ohio State University * Othering & Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley * Education Rights Center, Howard University School of Law * Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity at the University of Minnesota Law School * Education Law Center * New York Appleseed * Sheff Movement Coalition * Voluntary Interdistrict Choice Corporation * ERASE Racism * Chicago Lawyers' Committee * Empire Justice Center * IntegrateNYC * Intercultural Development Research Association * Reimagining Integration: Diverse and Equitable Schools Project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education * Institute for Social Progress at Wayne County Community College District * Center on Law, Inequaliy and Metropolitan Equity at Rutgers Law School * Integrated Schools * The Office of Transformation and Innovation at the Dallas Independent School District * Live Baltimore * Maryland Equity Project at the University of Maryland College of Education * Center for Education and Civil Rights at Penn State College of Education * National Center for Montessori in the Public Sector * Diversity Education Network at Rutgers University * Being Black at School * UnifiEd * The Sillerman Center for the Advancement of Philanthropy Public Advocacy for Kids * The Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools * The School Diversity Notebook Fair Housing Justice Center, Inc. * Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity, Inc. (METCO) * Learn Together, Live Together * Beloved Community * Learning Policy Institute * Public School Forum of North Carolina * The Bell North Carolina Justice Center * The Bridges Collaborative at The Century Foundation * SproutFive * Oneonta For Equality * NestQuest Houston * Metis Associates

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