Wednesday, June 28, 2017 | news
There’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. Last week, the nonprofit group EdBuild released an eye-opening report detailing the breadth and effects of […]
Monday, June 26, 2017 | ldf-perspectives
By James Cadogan, Director of the Thurgood Marshall Institute, and Monique Lin-Luse, Assistant Counsel at LDF There’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. […]
Friday, February 16, 2018 | case-issue
Fisher v. University of Texas Protecting holistic, race conscious admissions Fisher v. University of Texas – Austin is a U.S. Supreme Court case that challenged the constitutionality of the consideration of race in the University of Texas (UT) undergraduate admissions policy. The case was first filed in 2008 by two white women, Abigail Fisher and […]
Monday, October 8, 2012 | news
When I started school in Virginia in 1968, the public schools in my county were still segregated by race. When our school board finally began complying with Brown vs. Board of Education, a group of parents decided to start an all-white private school. They showed up in our driveway one evening to convince my parents […]
Tuesday, August 14, 2012 | news
For Cris Rubio, there wasn’t much suspense about what came after he graduated high school in 2003. Rubio had been second in his class for much of his four years — he eventually finished fourth — and under the Texas Top Ten Percent Plan, any student in the top 10 percent of their high school […]
Monday, June 27, 2016 | news
PBS NEWSHOUR: Mark Walsh, Impact of Supreme Court’s Affirmative Action Ruling Could Reach K-12, Higher Ed (Jul. 15, 2016) “This was obviously a big surprise,” said Christina Swarns, the [Director of Litigation] for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund in New York, which filed a friend-of-the-court brief supporting the university’s plan. “It demonstrates […]
Friday, May 18, 2018 | page
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Thursday, November 12, 2020 | news
Today, the First Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a Massachusetts federal district court’s ruling that Harvard College’s race-conscious admissions program does not violate Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Filed in November 2014, Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) v. Harvard seeks to end the limited consideration of race within a holistic admissions […]
Tuesday, January 23, 2024 | page
Fighting for an Inclusive Democracy Texas Voters with Disabilities Share their Stories By Lindsey Norward Senior Staff Writer In San Antonio, Texas, community members and advocates gathered outside of the federal courthouse on October 2, 2023 with emblazoned signs in hand, shouting spirited chants. As a trial was underway inside, echoes of their rallying calls […]
Thursday, April 27, 2023 | page
Fighting Appraisal Bias How the Government and Housing Industry Can Better Address this Discriminatory Practice By David Wheaton Economic Justice Policy Fellow Denver residents Gwen and Lorenzo Mitchell decided to take advantage of soaring property prices and remodel their home back in 2021. Their three-bedroom property sits in a racially-diverse area where homes typically sold […]
