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Past Convenings: 2001 As part of our effort to support an infrastructure of collaboration between researchers, lawyers and advocates, we believe in the importance for CRP to conduct conferences and trainings. Many of our conferences are envisioned to foster debate and have drawn experts from several distinct areas, commissioned for further research by CRP. Our convenings in 2001 included:
December 8, 2001. Cambridge, Massachusetts As the cost of attending college continues to increase, we must ensure that higher education is affordable for all students. We know that enrollment gaps continue to persist and these gaps, in part, are maintained by current programs of student financial support that do not provide funds for the students who need them most. Housing Opportunity, Civil Rights and the Regional Agenda November 16, 2001. Washington, D.C. Co-sponsored by The Civil Rights Project, the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Joint Center for Housing Studies, and The Brookings Institution Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy. The research presented at this conference examined several dimensions of the affordable housing landscape--from the effects of older elements such as override statues and inclusionary zoning ordinances to the viability of new programs such as Moving To Opportunity and Employer Assisted Housing. Urban School Reform and Remedying Racial Disparities in Special Education Roundtable October 18, 2001. Cambridge, Massachusetts Co-sponsored by The Civil Rights Project and the National Institute for Urban School Improvement. Schools More Separate: Consequences of a Decade of Resegregation July 17, 2001. Washington, D.C. Press Briefing sponsored by the National Press Club. Research presented at this event shows that almost half a century after the U.S. Supreme Court concluded that Southern school segregation was unconstitutional and "inherently unequal," new statistics from the 1998-99 school year showed that racial and ethnic segregation continued to intensify throughout the 1990s.
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