Continuing progress on school diversity: The Department of Education issued final guidelines and funding invitation(s) for state charter school grants this week that included priority points for school diversity. While the point totals were more modest than we would have liked, these steps represent an increasing emphasis on school integration at the Department. In the … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (June 18, 2015): School integration developments in charters, Head Start, and NYC; LIHTC in St. Louis
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PRRAC Update (February 27, 2014): Early education; President Obama’s new Young Men of Color initiative
New opportunity for integrated Pre-K education? Recent research shows that children in kindergarten and pre-K are the most segregated age group in America, by race, ethnicity, and income. But there is growing evidence that all children do better in integrated early education programs. Will the Department of Education's new $250M early education program help to bring … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (February 27, 2014): Early education; President Obama’s new Young Men of Color initiative
“Inclusionary Zoning – Gautreaux by Another Pathway” by David Rusk (January-February 2005 P&R Issue)
By David Rusk (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) What my colleague john powell has termed creating “opportunity-based housing” is the goal of Alex Polikoff’s call for a sustained, Gautreaux-type program of 100,000 federal housing vouchers a year to relocate poor black families from high-poverty, opportunity-poor ghettoes to low-poverty, opportunity-rich … [Read more...] about “Inclusionary Zoning – Gautreaux by Another Pathway” by David Rusk (January-February 2005 P&R Issue)
