Grassroots resourcing has always played an important role in school integration advocacy, and 2021 will be a pivotal year for our movement. We'd greatly appreciate your donation this Giving Tuesday (tomorrow). If you're in a position to contribute to NCSD, please do! (Also share our Facebook fundraiser with friends...)
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LOCAL DESEGREGATION HISTORIES |
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We're working with several of our member organizations to compile visual timelines of local desegregation efforts and major events from across the country. Check out what we have so far:
Want to create a timeline of your local history? Contact Gina Chirichigno at gchirichigno@prrac.org for additional information.
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NEWS FROM
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NEW: Two Reports on School Segregation in VA
(Penn State's Center for Education and Civil Rights & VCU College of Education, Nov. 2020)
“In this report, we’re trying to think about both the local level and the state level simultaneously in terms of how to make policy to support reducing segregation. Virginia is a really opportune place to do that because of its diversity. It can and should be a model for other states to constructively address changing demographics and to reduce inequality,” said Penn State professor Erica Frankenberg, Ed.D., director of the Center for Education and Civil Rights. Read more here via Richmond, VA's NBC12.
"This project examines the history of school segregation in Virginia, how it looks today, the benefits of well-integrated learning environments, and policy solutions to help ensure a more equitable future for students."
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Opinion: A Blueprint for Racial Healing in the Biden Era by Sheryll Cashin (POLITICO, Nov. 21) - "The past is not past: To this day, governments invest in segregation in neighborhoods and schools, and many Americans depend on segregation in making choices about where to live and educate their children."
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60 Years Later, Ruby Bridges Tells Her Story In 'This Is Your Time' by Scott Simon (NPR, Nov. 7) - "Rockwell depicted her in a light, white dress, holding her schoolbooks and a ruler — and walking by a wall scrawled with a message of hate. 60 years later, she's written a book to tell children her story, and a story of America — Ruby Bridges: This is Your Time."
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Drew Days, First Black Leader of Civil Rights Unit, Dies at 79 by Katharine Q. Seelye (New York Times, Nov. 18) - "He later joined the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, for which he argued several school desegregation cases, including a lawsuit, which he won, to desegregate the same schools in Tampa, Fla., that he had attended as a boy...President Jimmy Carter named Mr. Days assistant attorney general for civil rights in 1977, making him the first Black person to head any division in the Justice Department."
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Californians Reject Affirmative Action. Maybe They’re Not Progressive After All by Jill Tucker (San Francisco Chronicle, Nov. 9) - “We can’t march in the streets and just say that we want justice, and that we care about racial equity and then not do that in our schools, not practice that in our universities, not demand that from our governor and our Legislature,” she said. “That was part of what we were hoping to do — to have affirmative action as a tool to move us in that direction.”
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Two Black Democrats Beat Republican Incumbents to Transform a Suburban School Board by Mark Lieberman (Education Week, Nov. 4) - "The Democratic candidates emphasized the disproportionately high rates of punishment and low rates of academic achievement for the district's students of color, while the incumbents pointed to their decades of experience running the school system, which has had a good reputation and earned accolades for overall achievement."
Massachusetts -
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Via METCO: The Massachusetts House and Senate have increased funding for METCO by about $1 million in their draft budgets for FY21. If the Governor approves it, this year will mark the third consecutive increase in the state grant that subsidizes suburban school districts for enrollment of Boston students of color.
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Check out the winners of St. Louis-based Creative Reaction Lab’s Artwork for Equity campaign. Artwork for Equity challenges Black and Latinx youth artists "to produce original images in the form of posters promoting inclusion, equity, liberation, and justice for all races." The 2020 campaign theme was “Ancestor’s Vote.”
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NYC High School Admissions Rules Violate Civil Rights Act: Federal Complaint by Michael Elsen-Rooney (New York Daily News, Nov. 16) - "Student advocacy group Teens Take Charge argues in a complaint set to be filed Monday to the U.S. Education Department that the lower admissions rates for Black and Latino students to the selective high schools show the selection rules have a discriminatory effect — even if the rules appear neutral on the surface."
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RESEARCH ADVISORY PANEL UPDATES |
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The National Coalition on School Diversity's Research Advisory Panel helps ensure that our advocacy efforts are informed by the most current, methodologically sound research on school integration. Below are some updates from our experts:
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Research Advisory Panel member Linda Tropp served as a panelist at the Global Empowerment Meeting, hosted by Harvard’s Center for International Development. During "The Morality of Us & Them," speakers explored the "economic, social, and political underpinnings of polarization [and] discussed the root causes of and solutions to 'us versus them' group mentalities."
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An Agenda for Restoring Civil Rights in
K-12 Federal Education Policy
By Elizabeth DeBray, Janelle Scott, Genevieve Siegel-Hawley (NCSD RAP member), Elizabeth DeBray, Erica Frankenberg (NCSD RAP member), and Kathyrn McDermott
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EMERGING INTEGRATION SCHOLARS:
Graduate Student Research Contest
The Have You Heard podcast is hosting its annual research contest for graduate students. Winners will have the opportunity to discuss their original research for 30 minutes on the well-circulated podcast.
This is a great opportunity for emerging scholars -- enter today!
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CROSS-MOVEMENT RESOURCE LIST |
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Realtors Apologize for Role in Housing Racial Discrimination by John Gittelsohn (Bloomberg, Nov. 19) - “'What Realtors did was an outrage to our morals and our ideals,' Charlie Oppler said Thursday during a virtual fair-housing summit hosted by the group. 'It was a betrayal of our commitment to fairness and equality.'”
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More on "Monopolizing Whiteness"
Last month's update referenced “Monopolizing Whiteness,” an article in which Professor Erika Wilson addresses the limitations of federal constitutional law in addressing school segregation, and suggests a new framework for analyzing the school segregation issue based on antitrust law.
This month, two member organizations--the Poverty & Race Research Action Council (PRRAC) and the School Diversity Notebook--visited with University of North Carolina law professor Erika Wilson.
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The Center for Popular Democracy |
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Learning Policy Institute |
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Taking Action for Equity Improvement:
Harvard RIDES is offering a free intensive clinics -
Jan. 27 - Feb. 1, 2021: For school leadership and equity teams. Admission is by application only, and we will select up to eight teams from districts committed to learning how to address these questions. Deadline Dec. 7th.
March 1 - 8, 2021: For district leadership and equity teams. Admission is by application
only, and we will select up to eight teams from districts committed to learning how to address these question.
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Diverse Charter Schools Coalition
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Magnet Schools of America
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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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