Friday, January 8, 2016 | news
ESSA Offers Opportunity to Combat School Pushout ESSA includes provisions that could help dismantle one of the most discriminatory and insidious, yet often overlooked, phenomena in our nation’s public education system: school pushout. The term refers broadly to disciplinary policies, practices, conditions, and mindsets that result in students being targeted and excluded from the general […]
Monday, March 16, 2015 | news
From the article: Janel George, a lead lawyer for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, also shared this sentiment, calling suspension a “school pushout” that undermines kids and prevents them from learning, reports Patrick O’Donnell at Cleveland.com. “Our nation cannot close the achievement gap if we ignore the discipline gap,” George said. Read the […]
Wednesday, December 2, 2015 | news
It’s often said that compromise gives something to everyone but leaves nobody happy. Case in point is the bipartisan effort to replace “No Child Left Behind” with a new, federal education reform called, “Every Child Succeeds.” We hear where and how Republicans and Democrats agree to disagree. Later on the program the despair and outrage […]
Tuesday, March 15, 2022 | news
Today, Janai S. Nelson began her tenure as the eighth President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), following Sherrilyn Ifill in the first-ever woman-to-woman leadership transition in the organization’s 82-year history. “I am deeply honored to lead LDF through the next chapter of our work advancing the rights and fighting […]
Monday, December 19, 2016 | news
By: Janai Nelson Source: Huffington Post From the moment he began assembling his administration, president-elect Donald Trump has confirmed the worst fears of the 75 percent of the electorate who did not vote for him. He has eschewed a team of rivals in favor of prospective nominees who carry the stains of inexperience and insouciance regarding […]
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 | news
Today, Legal Defense Fund (LDF) President and Director-Counsel Janai Nelson urged lawmakers to safeguard access to high-quality, inclusive, and equitable public education by fulfilling Brown v. Board’s promise in testimony before the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce, particularly in the wake of recent threats by the Trump Administration. “Public education is not […]
Monday, April 11, 2016 | news
Evenwel v. Abbott: Every Person (and Every Win) Counts, by Janai Nelson While many are rightly claiming victory for Monday’s decision upholding the bedrock principle of one person, one vote established more than half a century ago, some have grown weary of having to defend against baseless challenges to longstanding legal principles and view the […]
Wednesday, February 3, 2016 | news
What’s different about the latest challenge to Affirmative Action? Should race be a consideration in college admissions? For the second time in three years, the Supreme Court justices are considering the constitutionality of that question. Gwen Ifill examines the opposing viewpoints with Richard Kahlenberg of the Century Foundation and Janai Nelson of the NAACP Legal […]
Tuesday, June 4, 2019 | news
Janai Nelson, Associate Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), testified before the House Homeland Security Committee on how Transportation Security Administration (TSA) policies are profiling and disproportionately burdening people of color alongside Sikh Coalition Senior Policy and Advocacy Manager Sim J. Singh and Acting Director of the Homeland Security and […]
Wednesday, November 25, 2015 | news
On MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports, LDF Associate Director-Counsel Janai Nelson talks about the dashcam video released in the Laquan McDonald shooting and explains why there was no audio accompanying it.
