New report on charter schools: Yesterday, PRRAC joined The Century Foundation in publishing a white paper by Richard Kahlenberg and Halley Potter titled "Diverse Charter Schools: Can Racial and Socioeconomic Integration Promote Better Outcomes for Students?" The paper examines the causes of the current trend of charter school funders and government program … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (May 31, 2012): Slow moving rules – and a new charter school report
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PRRAC Update (May 18, 2012): Diverse charter schools? and Deepak Bhargava in the new P&R
Century Foundation/PRRAC convening on diverse charter schools: Continuing one of the themes from yesterday's Conference on School Diversity, PRRAC is co-sponsoring a lunch forum later this month titled "Diverse Charter Schools: Can Racial and Socioeconomic Integration Promote Better Outcomes for Students?" A panel of civil rights and charter school … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (May 18, 2012): Diverse charter schools? and Deepak Bhargava in the new P&R
PRRAC Update (May 3, 2012): Doug Massey on Mount Laurel – and another HUD demonstration
Important new research on housing mobility from Doug Massey: In the upcoming Poverty & Race, Princeton Professor Doug Massey presents a summary of new research on outcomes for families and children at Ethel Lawrence Homes, a low income housing development in a relatively affluent suburban town outside of Philadelphia (Mount Laurel). Tracking … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (May 3, 2012): Doug Massey on Mount Laurel – and another HUD demonstration
PRRAC Update (April 19, 2012): Zoning, education, and more resources!
PRRAC resources library: Some of the input from our recent readers' survey of Poverty & Race (our bimonthly print publication) asked if the "resources section" and other content from P&R could be made available on-line between issues, rather than just posted every two months. We agree - and we have set up a separate page of resource … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (April 19, 2012): Zoning, education, and more resources!
PRRAC Update (April 5, 2012): Smart growth and fair housing, discriminatory property management of foreclosed bank properties
Reconciling smart growth and fair housing has been a continuing theme of our work over the past two years, and this focus has continued with recent coalition comments on a Federal Transit Administration Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, and comments on an EPA draft reporton "Creating Equitable, Healthy, and Sustainable Communities." "The Spatial Concentration of Subsidized … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (April 5, 2012): Smart growth and fair housing, discriminatory property management of foreclosed bank properties
