05-20-2010
The University of Minnesota Law School's Institute on Race and Poverty (IRP) recently relesed a study—The State of Public Schools In Post-Katrina New Orleans: The Challenge of Creating Equal Opportunity—which found that the rebuilt public school system fails to adequately provide equal educational opportunity to all New Orleans students.
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02-10-2010
On Thursday, February 4, 2010, the Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles at UCLA issued “Choice Without Equity: Charter School Segregation and the Need for Civil Rights Standards,” a nationwide report based on an analysis of Federal government data and an examination of charter schools in 40 states and the District of Columbia, along with several dozen metropolitan areas with large enrollments of charters. The report found that charter schools continue to stratify students by race, class, and possibly language, and are more racially isolated than traditional public schools in virtually every state and large metropolitan area in the country.
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08-27-2009
Thursday, September 17 - Friday, September 18, 2009
Lincoln Park United Methodist Church, Washington, DC
www.buildingoneamerica.org
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03-13-2009
April 2, 2009
Hosted by: The Center for Civil Rights at the UNC School of Law, The Civil Rights Project / Proyecto Derechos Civiles at UCLA, and The Education Policy and Evaluation Center at the University of Georgia.
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03-06-2009
The Minneapolis Public Schools' board is considering a resolution to pull out of the West Metro Education Program (WMEP) citing that WMEP has been unsuccessful in creating integrated schools and closing the achievement gap for non-white students. IRP's Myron Orfield, speaking at the public hearing, called the district's decision "destructive and precipitous."
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01-31-2009
Minnesota's minorities among those struggling most, according to the 2005-2007 American Community Survey.
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01-16-2009
IRP Director Myron Orfield comments on the potential positive integration benefits of the Minneapolis Advantage homeownership program.
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01-14-2009
Professor Gary Orfield and the Civil RIghts Project at UCLA have released "Reviving the Goal of an Integrated Society: A 21st Century Challenge."
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01-12-2009
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12-11-2008
IRP Executive Director Myron Orfield was in Washington, DC on December 9, 2008, with other National Commission on Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity members to release the report of their findings. Unfair housing practices across the country may be deepening the national foreclosure crisis.
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