Looking to the future of the school integration movement: We participated in a months-long community of practice led by Brown’s Promise, NCSD, and the Education Law Center, to develop a statement of values and policies to help define the future course of school integration research, policy, and practice – and to help bring together the interdependent yet often disconnected fields of school funding and school desegregation advocacy. See the joint statement here.
School integration in the 2025 budget: The National Coalition on School Diversity led a sign-on letter of over 50 groups asking Congress for increased investments in the Fostering Diverse Schools program and the Magnet Schools Assistance Program – the Department of Education’s two main programs supporting voluntary school integration. See the letter here.
Housing mobility and school integration: We were thrilled to be included as a grantee in the American Institutes for Research “School Integration and Equity 2.0 Grant Competition,” for a project designed to help housing mobility programs provide improved services to families with housing vouchers who move into low poverty, high performing school districts. We’ll be working with Mobility Works, several housing authorities, program participants, and a panel of experts to design a package of assessment tools, training and counseling materials to disseminate to programs across the country. This project is a continuation of PRRAC’s ongoing work at the intersection of housing and school policy.
Other news and resources
A unified commitment to environmental justice and Title VI: Last week, six federal agencies came together in an unusual joint statement reaffirming their support for Title VI as a tool to advance environmental justice. The statement comes at a time of coordinated attacks on Title VI on the 60th anniversary of its passage by Congress, including a petition for rulemaking by 23 state attorneys general to eliminate the Title VI disparate impact rule.
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