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School Safety For America’s Youngest Students Means More Officers, More Guns

Matt Cregor, Assistant Counsel in LDF’s Education Practice and an expert on the School-to-Prison pipeline, was quoted in a Huffington Post article on school policing. He forcefully argues against the practice of increasing the number of School Resource Officers as a means of keeping schools safe. On the contrary, these SROs are instrumental in facilitating […]

School Police in McKinney, Texas, Arrest and Ticket African-American Students at Excessive and Unequal Rates

School Resource Officers in Dallas Suburb Where Officer Used Extreme Force at Pool Party Found to Receive No Special Training in Working with Children AUSTIN, TEXAS – A new data analysis shows that a Dallas suburb, where a police officer was videotaped at a pool party in June shoving a teenage African-American girl to the […]

School Nutrition & Racial Equity: The Need for Universal, Healthy School Meals

School Nutrition & Racial Equity The Need for Universal, Healthy School Meals It’s hard to learn when you’re hungry. Hunger and food insecurity affect children’s academic performance, mental health, and school attendance. Unfortunately, Black children experience hunger at the highest rate among all racial groups. Based on 2020 Census data, Black people faced the highest […]

Scholarships

The Legal Defense Fund’s (LDF) scholarship programs provide financial assistance to those who had been denied access to higher education for generations. For decades, the Herbert Lehman Education Fund and the Earl Warren Legal Training Program have guaranteed for many Black undergraduate students and law students that the battles to end segregation in education would […]

Schnapper-Casteras Discusses Disparate-Impact Framework on SCOTUS Blog

Symposium: The disparate-impact framework remains essential and effective John Paul Schnapper-Casteras is Special Counsel for Appellate and Supreme Court Advocacy at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, which filed an amicus brief in support of the respondents in Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. The Inclusive Community Project, Inc. A fair and proper interpretation of […]

Scathing DOJ Report Exposes Harsh Reality of Discriminatory Policing in Baltimore

The United States Department of Justice issued a scathing report detailing a pattern and practice of racial discrimination in the Baltimore Police Department (BPD). The report was issued after the Division engaged in a nearly one-year review of the BPD – an investigation requested by the City and numerous residents. The Civil Rights Division concluded […]

SC testimony form

Protect Truth in Education in South Carolina Submit written testimony using this form. You can use our fillable template and prompts, enter your original testimony, or upload your testimony.

Sarah Louise McCoy

In 1965, the same year the Voting Rights Act was passed, Sarah Louise McCoy brought a class action law suit on behalf of herself and other African American students against the Louisiana State Board of Education, seeking admission as a student to Northeast Louisiana State College. Northeast Louisiana State College the-president Walker stated at the […]

Sarah Friedmann

Santino Coleman

Santino Coleman serves as Assistant Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (“LDF”). Prior to joining LDF, Santino was a Staff Attorney with the Federal Defender Program for the Northern District of Illinois, where he represented people accused of federal crimes. Santino also worked as an attorney in the Capital Habeas Unit […]