Housing-Schools Nexus - A new collection of resources is available from the National Association of Realtors© and the Poverty & Race Research Action Council. The collection includes an overview of the benefits of school diversity for real estate professionals, a training outline on how to talk about schools with real estate clients, and a video profile of the successful Pasadena program that allows real estate professionals to volunteer to work with students and staff in district schools.
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NCSD STAFF UPDATES
What We've Been Up To This Month
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Biden/Harris Admin and School Integration & Funding for High-Poverty Schools
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NCSD Shares Information About State Policy Developments at the Bridges Collaborative National Convening
On June 3, we worked with Kris Nordstrom, Aneesh Sahni, Rodney Jordan, and Genevieve Siegel-Hawley to present a breakout session about the importance of state policy as a lever for furthering school integration, specifically highlighting efforts in Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Virginia. Our Model State School Integration Policies, released in May 2020, has helped inform these efforts.
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Massachusetts - In April 2021, the Boston Globe’s editorial board joined the call for more action to address school segregation in their state. Specifically, they highlighted the work of state Reps. Brendan Crighton and Chynah Tyler as well as the Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity program (METCO): Editorial: Time for State Lawmakers to Act on School Integration.
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Request for Proposals: Strategic Planner for NCSD (Deadline: July 1, 2021)
We're soliciting proposals from consultants experienced in strategic planning for racial/social justice organizations to lead our staff, steering committee, and network members through a process to revise its current strategic plan. Deliverables should be a clear, easily consumed, strategic planning roadmap accompanied by a timeline, implementation, and evaluation methodology.
Learn more and how to apply here.
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New Report:
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Advancing Integration and Equity Through Magnet Schools by Janel George & Linda Darling-Hammond - "[I]t is important to examine the evidence on the conditions in which magnet schools can innovate, improve the quality of education, boost the achievement of students, and promote integrated learning environments."
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Updates:
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Nyah Berg, Rene Kathawala, David Tipson, and Lauren Webb make the case for a non-litigation approach to school integration in their recent essay in the Fordham Urban Law Journal, drawing on successful work by Appleseed and Orrick in New York City over the last decade. Their essay "challenges conventional wisdom around the proper role of lawyers in supporting movements for social change and argues for a broader definition of 'legal advocacy.'"
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With deep appreciation, NY Appleseed bids farewell to former executive director, David Tipson, and welcomes Nyah Berg into the role of interim executive director. Read the announcement of David's departure in their spring newsletter.
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Updates:
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School Integration is Popular. We Can Make it More So (The Century Foundation) - "As advocates for school diversity, we must better communicate the direct benefits to individual students that flow from integration, and link student benefits clearly and logically to larger social benefits, such as greater racial harmony and a better prepared workforce. Our research offers promising signs that this approach can be an effective tool in generating public buy-in for desegregation efforts, even when faced against the strongest of counter-arguments."
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Bridges Collaborative’s Student Contest on Segregation aims to shed light on the history of segregation in communities across America and to propose potential solutions to this problem. Submissions will be accepted through Wednesday, June 30, 2021 at 11:59 PM PT.
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New Report:
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NYC School Segregation Report Card: Still Last, Action Needed Now by Danielle Cohen with a forward by Gary Orfield. The report is an update to their 2014 report that revealed the extent of New York City's segregation problem, spurring increased activism. The new report analyzes recent data (2010 - 2018) "finds that New York retains its place as the most segregated state for black students, and second most segregated for Latino students, trailing only California."
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Virtual Forum: The Roots of Structural Racism: Segregation in the US - Check out the entire program with fair housing advocates, as well as leading race and housing scholars from across the the country. The event also featured the unveiling of "The Roots of Structural Racism: Twenty First Century Racial Residential Segregation in the US." A groundbreaking new project from the Othering & Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley which details just how widespread and harmful racial residential segregation remains today, why it matters, who it impacts, and what can be done to reverse this dangerous trend and promote integration.
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Without Social, Economic, and Political Equality, There is No Freedom by Rev. Dr. James A. Forbes, Jr - "With the Senate’s passage of a bill to establish Juneteenth as a national holiday, it is my hope that we will keep in mind the prophetic formula hidden in General Order No. 3. That will prevent the trivialization of the holiday, and the movement toward a more perfect union. May we hold ourselves to the standard of freedom and equality together, until we are not only a democratic society, but also a beloved community."
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RESEARCH ADVISORY PANEL UPDATES
Research Advisory Panel member Linda Tropp co-authored Need Satisfaction in Intergroup Contact: A Multinational Study of Pathways Toward Social Change with several other researchers: " Overall, findings suggest that intergroup contact is compatible with efforts to promote social change when group-specific needs are met. Thus, to encourage support for social change among both disadvantaged and advantaged group members, it is essential that, besides promoting mutual acceptance, intergroup contact interventions also give voice to and empower members of disadvantaged groups.
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NEWS FROM
ACROSS OUR
COUNTRY
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Chalkbeat is tracking the many efforts across several states to restrict how teachers discuss racism in the classroom. Check out the coverage here.
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The Economic Burden of Racism from the U.S. Education System by Clive Belfield (National Education Policy Center, June 11) - "In estimating the main economic burdens of racial disparities, this brief attempts to include all the resources that are affected by racism, measured in dollars. The brief’s conservative estimates point to the need for more complete and precise data; thus, the brief concludes with recommendations regarding policymaker-funded research."
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Biden Team to Revisit How Schools Should Ensure Racial Equity in Discipline by Evie Blad (Education Week, June 4) - “All students deserve access to safe, supportive schools and classrooms. Discrimination and use of exclusionary discipline can negatively impact students’ abilities to learn, grow and thrive,' U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona said in a statement. 'We’re seeking information so that the Department can help schools and educators confront disparities and create inclusive school environments that set all students up for success.'”
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California Looks to ‘De-Track’ Math Classes in Racial Equity Quest by Laura Meckler (Washington Post, June 4) - "'It tends to be a very complicated issue around socioeconomics, around race, around privilege and around ableism — who is high ability and who is not,' said Carol Corbett Burris, who de-tracked courses at South Side High School in suburban Rockville Centre, N.Y., when she was principal two decades ago and now runs the Network for Public Education, an advocacy group. 'Lots of schools attempt to do it in a very well-meaning way only to get pushback.' Recent research from South Side High found that de-tracking led more students to take advanced courses later in high school, with overall scores in those classes rising or staying flat."
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Report: School Lottery Family Decision Analysis: Patterns Among Decliners: Casey Cobb and Chelsea Connery of the University of Connecticut's Center for Education Policy Analysis, Research, and Evaluation (CEPARE) submitted a report on family decision-making in Connecticut's Hartford region school choice lottery. They conducted the analysis for the State per the January 2020 settlement agreement in Sheff v. O'Neill, which asked for additional information on why parents decline offers as well as why student leave a choice school. The latter attrition study is currently underway.
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The Map: Why is No One Talking About Desegregating Syracuse Schools? by Matt Mulcahy (CNY Central, June 2) - “The Campus Plan would have fully integrated schools and eliminated aging neighborhood schools that operated with the vestiges of segregation. Each campus would have included buildings for elementary, middle and high school programs. The Board of Education initially gave approval to the plan. Sites would be selected. Phased-in construction would begin. But, then the opposition came."
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CROSS-MOVEMENT RESOURCE LIST |
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The Supreme Court Leaves A Transgender Student's Legal Victory Intact by Nina Totenberg (NPR, June 28) - "[T]hree federal appeals courts have ruled in favor of transgender students in similar cases. All pointed to last year's 6-3 Supreme Court decision holding that the 1964 Civil Rights Act banning employment discrimination based on sex makes it illegal to discriminate against gay and transgender employees."
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“Gentrification” Is Not the Real Problem by Brett McMillan (Shelterforce, June 18) - "Let’s talk about the broader issues that discussion of gentrification obscures instead. Here’s why: Gentrification, or the influx of wealthy and upper-middle-class residents into formerly working-class neighborhoods (as I’ll use the term abstractly here though it has no exact definition), affects a select group of neighborhoods. A dominant number of neighborhoods across the country face decline. Neighborhood-level inequality, on the other hand, affects all neighborhoods."
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HUD Takes First Step to Restore Fair Housing Rule by Georgia Kromwei (HousingWire, June 15) - "HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge underscored the importance of restoring the rule, in light of persistent inequity in housing. A half-century after the federal government sought to make amends for a long history of discriminatory housing policies, housing remains deeply unequal."
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As Juneteenth Becomes a Federal Holiday, the US Needs a Culture of Reparations by Andre M. Perry and Rashawn Ray (Brookings Institution, June 16) - "To be clear, we will always have to beat back racists and racist policies. However, a reparative culture that embraces anti-racism and equity can shift the balance of power in those political fights. Just as white supremacist culture gave birth to slavery, redlining, and segregation, we can develop a new culture that recognizes human worth, fairness under the law, and restorative justice."
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Public School Forum of North Carolina
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Programming will include virtual access to the conference online platform for all days of the conference, plus there are plans for an in-person hub in the Bay Area, CA on Oct. 18.
Registration opens in July 2021.
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The Education Trust (co-sponsored by IDRA) - Join the event sponsors for a conversation about the Protect Our Students in School Act and why we need to ban corporal punishment in federally-funded schools.
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American Federation of Teachers (AFT) - Biennial professional learning conference, TEACH (Together Educating America’s Children).
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MicroSociety - "Every year, educators from across the global community of MicroSociety schools and after-schools attend our conference to learn best practices from each other and from MicroSociety’s training experts."
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Teachers College, Columbia University - "Our committed Reimagining Education faculty, graduate students, and staff stand with you this July to provide professional development that supports you in grappling with the key takeaways of the past year and think forward to 2021-22."
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National School Boards Association - "Through NSBA’s Center for Safe Schools and Dismantling Institutional Racism in Education (DIRE) initiative, you’ll examine the themes of DIRE through the lens of school safety and equity. Come explore the issues and take-home solutions to provide healthy, safe, and inclusive schools."
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American Association of School Administrators - "The premier opportunity for school superintendents and school business officials to make their voices heard on Capitol Hill and learn about the latest federal policy issues that will impact their districts. This year will allow school leaders to connect with staff on Capitol Hill as well as a variety of policy experts who can advise them on critical financial and policy decisions ahead."
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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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