Part 1 of the roundup, published yesterday, looked at recent school integration debates in Austin, TX and Wake County, NC. This post summarizes similar activity in Sausalito, Oakland, nearby Baltimore, Charleston, SC and Richmond, VA. As I note in the first post, these stories give disproportionate space to pushback from angry opposition, often from white…
It seems like a good time to update my previous post about media coverage of the exchange between Kamala Harris and Joe Biden about school integration/“busing” at the Democratic Primary debate earlier this month. The incredible pace of activity on this has slowed just in time for us to take stock before the next set…
Note: This is the first of a 2-part series. Part 2 can be found here. The school integration community received a jolt last week when “busing” and voluntary school integration unexpectedly took center stage at the Democratic primary. I’m sure that readers of this blog are familiar with the exchange between Kamala Harris and Joe…
Shortly after starting my job at the Center for Education and Civil Rights, I learned about a unique art exhibit that was set to be installed at Penn State as part of a national tour. The exhibit is called “Still Separate – Still Unequal,” co-curated with Larry Ossei-Mensah, and it is the second part of…
I want to start with an aspect of school segregation history that is important but may not be well known. Starting in the 1970-71 school year, Longview, TX was under a court desegregation order that included busing more than 600 Black students to formerly all white schools. During the summer before busing was to begin,…
This is a short post to announce that the School Desegregation Notebook is now the School Diversity Notebook. Because “school diversity” is a broader term that encompasses many different aspects of what is happening (and not happening) in school policy, I felt like it was a better fit. With the new name, I’ve created this…
This is a short post to announce a bit of news that I’m excited about: the SD Notebook has recently been added as an official member of the National Coalition on School Diversity. If you aren’t familiar with it, NCSD is a group of researchers and advocates who work to expand political/social support for meaningful…
School Diversity Notebook 