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Five Facts About the Education Trend Threatening to Further Segregate Schools
6/26/17Source:MediumThere’s a troubling but little-known trend in American public education that, in many cases, threatens to undo efforts to desegregate our nation’s schools: school secession. Simply put, school secession is when a community attempts to split from its local school district.
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LDF’s Leah Aden in Op-Ed for The Hill: It’s Time to Restore Full Power to the Voting Rights Act
6/25/17Source:The HillToday marks the fourth anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder, a devastating ruling that immobilized a part of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) that was one of the most effective tools for protecting voters and strengthening our political process.
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LDF’s Raymond Audain Explains Why Buffalo School Board Member Carl Paladino Must Be Removed
6/23/17Source:Albany Times UnionIn December, Buffalo School Board member Carl Paladino — who has a long history of making racist comments — made a series of outrageous "wishes" for 2017, including for then-President Barack Obama to "[catch] mad cow disease after being caught having relations with a [cow]," and for Michelle Obama "to return to being a male and let loose in the outback of Zimbabwe where she lives comfortably in a cave with Maxie, the gorilla."
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LDF Statement on Mistrial of Former University of Cincinnati Police Officer for Samuel DuBose’s Death
6/23/17Read the PDF of our staement here.
LDF Statement on Mistrial of Former University of Cincinnati Police Officer for Samuel DuBose’s Death
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LDF’s Monique Lin-Luse on Communities Seceding from School Districts and Intentional Discrimination in 2017
6/21/17Source:The 74Generally pursued through the guise of local control, secession efforts further cement school segregation along racial and socioeconomic lines and often exacerbate inequalities between low- and high-income schools, the report found. After decades of increased integration following the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 ruling in Brown v.