Wednesday, March 20, 2013 | news
NAACP Calls Mr. Buck’s Death Penalty Case a “Blatant Example of Racial Bias” (Harris County, Texas, March 20, 2013) Today, 102 prominent individuals from Texas and throughout the country released a statement urging Texas officials to provide a new, fair sentencing hearing for Duane Buck. Mr. Buck is an African-American man who was condemned to death after […]
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 | case-update
(Harris County, Texas, March 20, 2013) Today, 102 prominent individuals from Texas and throughout the country released a statement urging Texas officials to provide a new, fair sentencing hearing for Duane Buck. Mr. Buck is an African-American man who was condemned to death after his sentencing jury was told that he posed a future danger because of […]
Thursday, June 2, 2011 | news
Nearly two decades after a zero-tolerance culture took hold in American schools, a growing number of educators and elected leaders are scaling back discipline policies that led to lengthy suspensions and ousters for such mistakes as carrying toy guns or Advil. This rethinking has come in North Carolina and Denver, in Baltimore and Los Angeles […]
Wednesday, March 12, 2014 | news
On Tuesday, Monique Lin-Luse, Special Counsel in the Education Group talked with NY1 about the dismal admissions figures released from New York City’s Specialized High Schools. The statistics — 7 black students admitted to Stuyvesant and 18 Black students accepted to Bronx Science — show that acute racial disparities in admissions have persisted. Nonetheless, the […]
Friday, December 2, 2016 | news
The trial is underway to determine whether Gardendale City Schools can separate from Jefferson County Schools and form its own school system. “The plaintiffs … which are black students and their parents in Jefferson County … want to ensure that Jefferson County is able to do what it needs to do to provide their Constitutional […]
Friday, August 26, 2016 | news
A Southern City Wants to Secede from Its School District, Raising Concerns about Segregation “Resegregation is something that gets talked about a lot as sort of like a drip of water over time, and it eventually creates some huge hole in the wall,” said Monique Lin-Luse, a lawyer for the Legal Defense Fund. “This is […]
Friday, May 5, 2017 | news
On average, the number of school-aged children in seceding districts is about 4,000 compared to the roughly 32,000 school-aged children that comprise the districts from which they secede, according to the EdBuild analysis. “In most cases, a county is left with less resources when a municipal city school leaves,” Monique Lin-Luse explains. “Further, where there […]
Monday, May 18, 2015 | news
On 900AM WURD, Monique Lin-Luse discusses the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education and the ESEA. LDF continues to advocate for strong federal oversight to be included in the reauthorization of the ESEA (Elementary and SEcondary Education Act/No Child Left Behind) in order to ensure resource equity and quality education for all children. “LDF is still pursuing promise and […]
Friday, March 30, 2018 | staff
Monique Lin-Luse is Senior Counsel of NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund. Monique has over ten years of advocacy, organizing, and educator experience in youth development, education access, social justice, and civil rights. She has focused her work on removing barriers to educational success for all students and ending the criminalization of youth of color. […]
Wednesday, June 11, 2014 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. today announced that Monique L. Dixon has been appointed Senior Policy Counsel for Criminal Justice and State Education Initiatives, a new position based in Washington, D.C. that will focus on much-needed federal and state policy reforms. Ms. Dixon comes to LDF from the Open Society Institute in […]
