Listen to LDF’s Matt Cregor discussing school discipline on NPR’s Talk of the Nation.
The American Bar Association has announced that Elaine R. Jones, former President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF), will receive the organization’s 2011 Thurgood Marshall Award Saturday. The Award, honoring ...
While some of the gridlock among policymakers today can be chalked up to principled differences in political philosophy, some political stalemates are the result of policies that defy common sense. This most often happens when ...
Last month the NAACP Legal Defense Fund wrote the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to urge the commission to update its policy statement regarding the use of arrest and conviction records in employment screenings.
When the Supreme Court in 2003 narrowly approved the consideration of race in public university admission decisions, it came with loads of restrictions and a sort of expiration date. “We expect that 25 years from ...
The Road Home travails of Edward Randolph and Almarie Ford illustrate why government officials need to find additional ways to help homeowners wronged by the program. The two eastern New Orleans homeowners were among the ...
Today, the Council of State Governments released a new report that helps to raise awareness about the importance of dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline. Entitled Breaking Schools’ Rules: A Statewide Study of How School Discipline Relates ...
