2025 Press Releases

New UCLA-CRP Study Documents Widespread, Harmful Segregation in California Schools

The UCLA Civil Rights Project (CRP) today is publishing, "Extreme Segregation and Policy Inaction in California Schools," a new study that calls attention to the persistent and deepening segregation in the state’s public schools. The report concludes that California has had an exceptionally segregated and unequal educational system since 1980: desegregation plans have been shut down, the state constitution was changed to block integration efforts, and there has been no serious state leadership for even voluntary integration efforts since the 1970s. The percent of intensely segregated schools (with greater than 90% non-white enrollment) quadrupled from 1988 to 2022 and the proportion of these schools is double the national average.

New UCLA CRP Study: Increased Immigration Is Essential to Sustain Population Growth and Meet Labor Market Needs

Los Angeles – Amid the Trump administration’s politically charged effort to carry out the biggest mass deportation program in U.S. history, a new analysis of U.S. population growth and labor market needs published by the UCLA Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles makes clear that increased immigration is essential to sustaining U.S. population growth and economic vitality. The authors contend the only plausible solution to bolster the nation’s diminishing workforce is a pro-active, smart immigration strategy.