News

This section includes press releases and statements about education and racial justice issues.

Groups File Civil Rights Complaint Challenging Tracking and Discipline Practices in South Orange-Maplewood School District

The complaint was brought by CRP's Center for Civil Rights Remedies, the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of New Jersey.

Northern New England Schools Experience Early Racial Change

In this report, school segregation in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont is analyzed and found to be presently modest and localized, especially compared to other parts of the country, but slow increases in racial diversity signal changes ahead for the region’s schools. The authors urge the states and schools to act now to create policies addressing racial change and integration, before segregation becomes entrenched.

Education Tool Guides Districts and Schools on Using LCFF to Narrow EL Achievement Gaps

A new educational guide is available that helps California schools, districts and teachers target the best ways to implement California's Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), so that it narrows the achievement gaps between the state’s English Learners (ELs) and all other students. The guidance recommends research-based practices that innovate and reshape ways for addressing the educational needs of ELs.

Center for Civil Rights Remedies joined by 32 organizations and 19 scholars urge Department of Education to Address Racial Discipline Disparities among Students with Disabilities

Center for Civil Rights Remedies joined by 32 organizations and 19 scholars urge Department of Education to Address Racial Discipline Disparities among Students with Disabilities: The attached letter was posted on Monday in response to a “request for information” from Assistant Secretary of Education Michael Yudin.

Two of Three CA School Districts Reduce Out-of-School Suspensions as Discipline Gap Narrows

Based on the statewide averages for 2011-12 and 2012-13, progress was made in reducing out-of-school suspensions in California schools for every racial/ethnic subgroup. “Disruption/Willful Defiance” suspensions still, however, account for the largest share of the problem.

UCLA Report Finds Changing U.S. Demographics Transform School Segregation Landscape 60 Years After Brown v Board of Education

Segregation Increases after Desegregation Plans Terminated by Supreme Court

North Carolina’s Black Students Increasingly Isolated in Schools after Many Desegregation Plans Dissolved

Racial and Economic Isolation Intensifies Despite an Increasingly Multiracial Enrollment.

California The Most Segregated State for Latino Students

State Has Little to Celebrate 60 Years After Brown v Board of Education.

Researchers and Advocates Join Letter Urging Improved Public Reporting of Discipline Data

The Center for Civil Rights Remedies of the Civil Rights Project at UCLA and 14 co-signatories comment on proposed revisions to the Department of Education's State Performance Plan (SPP) and the Annual Performance Report (APR).

Reaction to Supreme Court Decision in Michigan Prop 2 Case

The Civil Rights Project deeply regrets yesterday’s decision by the Supreme Court, which ruled that Michigan’s Proposal 2, banning race-conscious college admissions, is constitutional.

Demographic Divide Intensifying in Southern California, Between Regions and Across Race

The report reveals the depth and scope of the demographic shifts within our social and urban landscapes, due to international immigration, changes in birth rates, and internal migration patterns.

New York Schools Most Segregated in the Nation

UCLA report identifies alarming trends throughout the Empire State.

Policy Briefing Spotlights What Works to Eliminate Disparities in School Discipline

A recent policy briefing in Washington, DC, on Thursday, March 13, 2014, highlighted the results of nearly three years of work by The Discipline Disparities Research-to-Practice Collaborative, 26 national experts on disparities in school discipline, including CRP's Center for Civil Rights Remedies.

CRP Researchers Reaffirm Findings of Increasing Segregation

Several researchers have recently published articles claiming that school segregation has actually not increased in recent decades, as we have reported in our publications. It turns out that these researchers preferred to measure something else—the randomness of distribution of four racial groups across metropolitan areas. This measure has never been the goal of desegregation policies, nor the way in which progress was measured in civil rights law and enforcement.

Policy Report Dispels Misconceptions about Prop 209, SATs and Asian American/Pacific Islanders in Higher Education

A coalition primarily of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) civil rights and higher education groups present this policy report to dispel public misconceptions that have recently surfaced around efforts to diversify higher education.

CRP's Center for Civil Rights Remedies joins civil rights groups in complaint vs. Wake County school policing policy

Center for Civil Rights Remedies joined local advocates in North Carolina asserting Wake County school policing violates civil rights laws.

Civil Rights Project Hails New Federal Guidance on School Discipline

The Department of Justice and the Education Department today jointly released guidance to public schools that should help curb what many call the school-to-prison pipeline, which often begins when students are excluded from school and too often ends with incarceration as adults, a pattern very disproportionately impacting students of color.

NEW RESOURCES: Two webinar recordings on school discipline and affirmative action

 

Making Education Work for Latinas in the U.S.

CRP study funded by actress and philanthropist Eva Longoria identifies factors that improve educational outcomes for Latinas

CALL FOR PERSONAL STORIES: Turning Around the School-to-Prison Pipeline

The Center for Civil Rights Remedies is seeking personal stories for possible inclusion in an upcoming book, “Closing the School Discipline Gap,” by Teachers College Press, and for use in additional forthcoming reports containing profiles of large districts.