Happy Birthday to Justice Thurgood Marshall, lead attorney and one of the masterminds behind Brown v. Board of Education. Today also marks the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which gave teeth to the Brown ruling. #ThurgoodWasRight #BrownvBoard #CivilRights

“Efforts to recruit and hire more Black teachers were not enough to make up for the long history of racial discrimination in teacher education, hiring, and placement outside of the South.” Zoë Burkholder explains the impact of #BrownvBoard on Northern schools. school-diversity.org/Burkholder

Powerful reminder from Janel George Georgetown Law. Read more in Janel’s recent law journal article: “Deny, Defund, Divert: The Law and American Miseducation.” #StillNotEqual #TeachTruth #HonestHistory papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

#ICYMI: Last year, we hosted an event with 🔎 Poverty & Race Research Action Council - PRRAC on the nuances of property taxes, school boundaries, and educational inequity as they relate to issues of school finance and segregation. Watch the recording and stay tuned for clips from our experts: youtube.com/watch?v=fWz_rs…

“This idea of local control persists today and it helps to continue or to ensure that school finance is going to be a tool of racial subordination.” –Osamudia James UNC School of Law #edequity Watch the full 🔎 Poverty & Race Research Action Council - PRRAC P&R Live recording: youtube.com/watch?v=fWz_rs…

“We should be providing more resources to the students who need them in order to produce the same outcomes on a range of outcomes—not just test scores—as more advantaged students.” –Ann Owens USC #edequity Watch the full 🔎 Poverty & Race Research Action Council - PRRAC P&R Live recording: youtube.com/watch?v=fWz_rs…

🧵 We are proud to announce that today, on the 50th anniversary of Milliken v. Bradley, we've released our comprehensive state policy agenda! It's a state-level plan to address the educational inequities that have persisted in part because of Milliken. Here's what's in it 👇

50 years ago today, #SCOTUS’s Milliken v. Bradley decision made it harder to address school seg across metros, significantly affecting Northern #integration by limiting cross-district #desegregation. Listen to Thurgood Marshall’s powerful dissent. #MillikenAt50 #ThurgoodWasRight

“People have to come together around a broader notion of what we need for public education today. That includes both equity, adequacy, and diversity.” –David Sciarra Learning Policy Institute #edequity Watch the full 🔎 Poverty & Race Research Action Council - PRRAC P&R Live recording: youtube.com/watch?v=fWz_rs…

“We want to see policymakers & advocates bringing attention to the continued persistence of school segregation & therefore the continued persistence of resource inequities in this country.” –Saba Bireda Brown's Promise #edequity Watch the full recording: youtube.com/watch?v=fWz_rs…

#ICYMI: Read the full #edequity issue of 🔎 Poverty & Race Research Action Council - PRRAC’s #PovertyandRace, guest edited by Derek W. Black USC Joseph F. Rice School of Law and featuring a stellar lineup of school funding and school integration research, policy, and legal experts. prrac.org/newsletters/Ap…

“Milliken v. Bradley is far less famous than Brown,” Michelle Adams writes. “But it should be better known, since it’s one of the primary reasons schools are, in practice, still so segregated today." wapo.st/3A1FU32

Most Americans support school integration—and this is true across racial, ethnic, socioeconomic, and partisan divides. Check out NCSD’s new fact sheet that summarizes findings from 3 recent integration polls and offers key takeaways w/ sample messages. school-diversity.org/pollingFS

Great piece by Michelle Adams via Washington Post Opinions! Our “Diverse, But Segregated” brief ID’d a set of school districts that might benefit from the Strength In Diversity Act. Interdistrict programs could also benefit! #StrengthInDiversity #MillikenAt50 Read it: school-diversity.org/SID

.Peter Piazza’s latest #SDNotebook blog post is a reflection on the 50th anniversary of Milliken v. Bradley and repost of a recent 🔎 Poverty & Race Research Action Council - PRRAC P&R article on Justice Thurgood Marshall’s faith in integration. #ThurgoodWasRight #MillikenAt50 Read it here: sdnotebook.com/2024/07/16/jus…

Recent polling suggests Americans want more integrated schools. Check out our new fact sheet that summarizes findings from 3 integration polls & offers key takeaways & sample messages to communicate the findings. The Washington Post Brown's Promise The Century Foundation school-diversity.org/pollingFS

Key takeaways from our new fact sheet: ☑️There’s broad support for school integration ☑️Emphasize the importance of equity & resources ☑️Clarify misconceptions about current segregation levels ☑️Explain why diversity is critical for real-world preparation school-diversity.org/pollingFS

#ICYMI: Check out NCSD’s new fact sheet on American attitudes toward school integration that summarizes four important lessons from recent integration polls and includes sample messages to communicate the lessons. The Washington Post Brown's Promise The Century Foundation school-diversity.org/pollingFS

☺️ - Amazing news! #Brownat70

#PauliMurray plays a prominent role in "Rosenwald Fellows & the Journey to #BrownvBoard" by Stephanie Deutsch (reprinted in 🔎 Poverty & Race Research Action Council - PRRAC 's latest journal). The fellowship enabled Murray to study at UC Berkeley Law after graduating Howard University School of Law as valedictorian. prrac.org/newsletters/po…