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Comprehensive Strategy to Integrate Twin Cities Schools and Neighborhoods
Segregation in schools and neighborhoods are closely related. Policy reform for schools and housing must therefore, be closely related and regionally coordinated.
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Metropolitan Planning Organization Reform: A National Agenda for Reforming Metropolitan Governance
Policy Recommendation, September 2009.
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Segregated Communities: Segregated Finance
Segregated Communities: Segregated Finance - An analysis of race, income and small consumer loans in Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN, Portland, OR, and Seattle, WA. August 2009
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Communities in Crisis: Race and Mortgage Lending in the Twin Cities
A new report by the Institute on Race & Poverty, "Communities in Crisis," shows strong racial disparities in mortgage lending in the Twin Cities metropolitan area. In the Twin Cities, like the rest of the nation, people of color receive home loans on worse terms and at a higher cost than white borrowers. The Twin Cities actually has some of the worst racial lending disparities in the nation, and communities of color have borne the brunt of both the subprime lending and foreclosure crisis. "Communities in Crisis" shows how much race and segregation influence mortgage lending patters in the Twin Cities.
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Twin Cities Opportunity Index
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Failed Promises: Assessing Charter Schools in the Twin Citites
Charter schools lag behind traditional public schools and intensify racial and economic segregation in the Twin Cities
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Harvard Law School, National Summit on Interdistrict School Desegregation
Executive Director Myron Orfield recommends the accompanying documents in reference to his panel presentation for the Summit, hosted by the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice, January 16-18, 2009.
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Achievement Gap Committee Hearing
IRP Executive Director Myron Orfield provided testimony at the September 24, 2007 Achievement Gap Committee Hearing, sponsored by Senator Patricia Ray Torres.
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Expanding Educational Opportunity Through School and Housing Choice
IRP Executive Director, Myron Orfield, and former Research Fellow, Nicholas Wallace, co-authored this paper detailing the prevalence of segregation in many Twin Cities schools.
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Brown Power Base - Reject Segregation in Minnesota Public Schools! Separate is not equal!
The Brown Power Base Project is a collaborative of the Minneapolis Urban League, Centro Campesino, Hispanic Advocacy and Community Empowerment through Research (HACER), the Institute on Race & Poverty and the Housing Preservation Project.
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