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Education Advocates Urge State Departments of Education to Improve School Climates Through ESSA State Plans

Education Advocates Urge State Departments of Education to Improve School Climates through ESSA State Plans As the Senate considers the next U.S. Secretary of Education, ultimately responsible for approving state plans under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), a coalition of education advocates sent letters to Departments of Education in eight states advising officials to […]

Education

LDF works tirelessly to advance educational equity and ensure that all students have access to a safe, truthful, inclusive, and comprehensive education. LDF’s victories established the foundations for the civil rights that all Americans enjoy today. In its first two decades, LDF undertook a coordinated legal assault against officially enforced public school segregation. This campaign […]

Editorial: Keep schools’ right to limited use of race

In a 2007 case, Chief Justice John Roberts famously wrote that “the way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” That’s more glib than helpful, given this country’s long and painful struggle with racial inequity. But it’s a window into the way the court’s conservative majority thinks […]

ED Office for Civil Rights Releases Guidance Promoting Resource Equity for All Students

LDF applauds the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights release today of guidance to states, school districts, and schools to help ensure that all students have access to equal educational opportunity through the equitable distribution of school resources.  All states and schools have an obligation under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of […]

Economic Justice

Since its founding, the Legal Defense Fund has fought for the rights of Black Americans to work, live, and thrive without racially imposed barriers. In one of our first cases in 1940, LDF secured a vital decision that required equal pay for black and white teachers. Through litigation, advocacy, and public education, LDF’s economic justice […]

Echoes of Brown in School Discipline

Leticia Smith-Evans, Interim Director of the Education Practice Group, writes for EdWeek on the recent legal guidance issued by the DOJ and DOE on school discipline. Responding to the questions of the necessity and projected efficacy of the guidance, Smith-Evans writes “At a time when opportunity gaps exist that largely correlate to a student’s race, the […]

EBONY Magazine Unveils Its 2014 EBONY Power 100 List

Honorees on the 29th Annual List Include Gabrielle Union, LeBron James,Shonda Rhimes, Pharrell Williams, Kevin Hart and T.D. Jakes Music Impresario Quincy Jones will receive the EBONY Achievement Award Gala Celebration Will Take Place in Los Angeles on November 19 CHICAGO (November 11, 2014) — EBONY® Magazine today unveiled its annual EBONY Power 100 list, […]

Early Voting in Louisiana 2024: How Voters Can Make History

An Early Voting Success Story – And A Call to Action How Louisiana Voters Can Be Part of History This October By Victoria (Tori) Wenger Black Voters on the Rise Attorney During this critical election cycle, it’s imperative that all voters make a plan to cast their ballots. And because of a multi-year, multi-tactic effort […]

Earl Warren Scholarship

Applications for the 2025-2026 Earl Warren Scholarship are now open! The Earl Warren Scholarship is named for the Honorable Earl Warren, the 14th Chief Justice of the United States and former Governor of California whose stewardship of the Warren Court helped end school segregation and transform America’s legal landscape. In honor of his memory, Earl […]

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