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Jan 5, 2024 · Brown vs. Board of Education, the pivotal Supreme Court decision that made school segregation unconstitutional, turns 70 years old on May 17, 2024. At the time of the 1954 ruling, 17 U.S. states...
- Erica Frankenberg
Sep 9, 2024 · Process reforms aim to change the way education is created, delivered, and monitored by schools and their oversight bodies. To extend the recipe analogy, processes are the mixing and cooking ...
- Margaret Raymond
- A Sample from The Inventory
- Key Findings
- Implications For Policy and Practice
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- Appendix: Data and Methodology
With 907 charters, districts, and networks from all corners of the United States, there is a wealth of practices, policies, and approaches to consider. Below we offer a sample of the agencies and legal circumstances included in the inventory. It is worth noting that our research did not include an analysis of how integrated the districts or charter...
Based on new research and compilation of existing data, this inventory offers a snapshot of the state of school integration efforts today. Here are some of the key findings.
This information about school integration policies and legal desegregation efforts across the country, gathered together for the first time, points to some key lessons for policymakers, education leaders, and advocates. Here are some of the conclusions we’ve drawn:
The work of school integration is ongoing, and the future holds many questions: Amidst a pandemic, in what ways are school districts moving forward with school integration plans? How is the pandemic impeding or delaying integration efforts, and how can school leaders and policymakers revitalize them? The Century Foundation is addressing these quest...
We would like to thank Janel A. George for providing feedback and Alejandra Vázquez Baur for providing research support for this report. We are also grateful to the many leaders at school districts, charter schools, state departments of education, and state charter advocacy organizations who answered questions and reviewed information.
Criteria for Inclusion
This inventory attempts to catalogue two types of school integration efforts: 1. Integration policies:School districts and charter schools or networks that have established student assignment/admissions policies or practices that directly consider socioeconomic status or race in an effort to promote school integration. 2. Legal instruments:School districts and charter schools or networks that are subject to a desegregation order or voluntary agreement with a federal or state court or agency....
Sources for Integration Policies
Information on school integration policies and practices is not stored in a central location. We constructed our list of school integration policies from a combination of past TCF research,38new Internet and news searches, leads from integration advocates and other researchers, past inquiries from districts seeking information to establish or sustain their own programs, and outreach to education officials. A large component of our own research process involved contacting each of the districts...
Sources for Legal Instruments
Available data sources on desegregation orders and voluntary agreements are incomplete and at times contradictory.39 The federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC), which all school districts and charter schools are required to respond to every two years, includes a questionasking whether the Local Education Agency is covered by a “desegregation order or plan,” defined as: an order or plan: (1) that has been ordered by, submitted to, or entered into with a federal or state court; the Office...
May 15, 2024 · Why school segregation is getting worse. Seventy years after the Brown decision, many students are divided by their race and socioeconomic status. A teacher and students in a public classroom in...
- Fabiola Cineas
May 20, 2024 · The school is the first in the eastern Carolina community to be fully integrated. Friday, May 17, 2024, marks 70 years since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that separating children in schools by race was unconstitutional. On paper, Brown v. Board of Education still stands.
Jun 14, 2023 · Education experts have looked to a number of factors as root causes of the gap: family income, single parenthood, school resources. But a study by Francis Pearman, an assistant...
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Nov 7, 2022 · The union representing 55,000 education workers across Ontario will end their mass walkout on Tuesday after Premier Doug Ford offered to rescind the legislation that made the strike illegal.
