PRRAC in the News

By Halimah Abdullah and Candace King, NBC News There is no actual barrier dividing the predominantly black and poor Baltimore neighborhood where Freddie Gray lived and ultimately died from the more affluent and white enclaves in and surrounding the city. … [Read more...] about Past an Invisible Fence: Gauging Obama’s New Housing Rule (NBC News)

By Amanda Ulrich, Education Week Fourteen socioeconomically and racially diverse charter schools from eight different states have joined together to form a national coalition to share resources and promote the creation of more schools like them across the country. … [Read more...] about New Coalition Promotes Diverse Student Populations in Charter Schools (Education Week)

By Alana Semuels, CityLab When a woman in McKinney, Texas, told Tatiana Rhodes and her friends to “go back to your Section 8 homes” at a public pool earlier this month, she inadvertently spoke volumes about the failure of a program that was designed to help America’s poor. … [Read more...] about How Housing Policy Is Failing America’s Poor (CityLab)

By Natalie Sherman, Baltimore Sun The federal government is considering an overhaul of its subsidized housing program that would change the way it determines rent limits from a one-size-fits-all approach for metro areas to a more localized approach that could allow more people to move to Baltimore's suburbs. … [Read more...] about HUD Considers Change to Section 8 Rents (Baltimore Sun)

By Halley Potter, NY Daily News Mayor Bill de Blasio took office in 2014 with a promise to end the "tale of two cities" by fighting economic inequality. His administration's first big policy initiative — to the tune of roughly $400 million per year — was expanding the city's pre-kindergarten program, on the path to universal pre-K. … [Read more...] about Universal Pre-K’s Integration Problem: Bill de Blasio’s Admirable and Promising Program Should be Doing a Better Job Mixing Kids of Different Backgrounds (NY Daily News)