Revised "diversity priority" proposed for Department of Education competitive grant programs: In 2010, the Department of Education approved a series of funding priorities that could be included as incentives or threshold requirements in Department competitive grant programs - including a priority for promoting racial and ethnic diversity in schools. However, since the … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (June 26, 2014): New diversity language at Dept of Ed
Chicago
“Forty Years of the Civil Rights Movement in Chicago” by Dick Simpson (May-June 2006 P&R Issue)
By Dick Simpson (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Forty years ago, the civil rights marches burst upon the scene in Chicago. Within a year, there was a summit agreement of sorts between Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mayor Richard J. Daley. Many at the time saw the agreement as a sham and simply a way for Dr. King to leave town and take the movement other places … [Read more...] about “Forty Years of the Civil Rights Movement in Chicago” by Dick Simpson (May-June 2006 P&R Issue)
“Overall, Things Are Not Good” by Salim Muwakkil (May-June 2006 P&R Issue)
By Salim Muwakkil (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Martin Luther King’s publicity-savvy Southern Christian Leadership Conference arrived in Chicago with a campaign to attack racial biases and improve the quality of life in the city’s notoriously squalid black ghettos. The SCLC-Coordinating Council of Community Organizations collaboration was particularly focused … [Read more...] about “Overall, Things Are Not Good” by Salim Muwakkil (May-June 2006 P&R Issue)
Launching the National Fair Housing Debate: A Closer Look at the 1966 Chicago Freedom Movement (Sara Asrat & Philip Tegeler, December 2005)
A PRRAC Report (December 2005). By Sara Asrat & Philip Tegeler. Read Report Here... Excerpt: "The struggle for open housing begun by the Chicago Freedom Movement in 1966 is still very much in progress, in Chicago and across the country. If the aims of the Freedom Movement were overly ambitious, one can only fault its leaders – as one black reader did in a letter to … [Read more...] about Launching the National Fair Housing Debate: A Closer Look at the 1966 Chicago Freedom Movement (Sara Asrat & Philip Tegeler, December 2005)
“We Must Acknowledge How Poor People Live” by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh (January-February 2005 P&R Issue)
By Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Polikoff offers a persuasive proposal to dismantle America’s ghettos. I leave to others a critique of its technocratic merits. Instead, I address the sociological underpinning, as it is a most elegant rendition of the liberal hymn for social justice. Polikoff’s spirited argument presupposes a folk … [Read more...] about “We Must Acknowledge How Poor People Live” by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh (January-February 2005 P&R Issue)
