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The Civil Rights Project at UCLA
The Civil Rights Project at UCLA
The mission of the Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles is to help renew the civil rights movement by bridging the worlds of ideas and action, to be a preeminent source of intellectual capital within that movement, and to deepen the understanding of the issues that must be resolved to achieve racial and ethnic equity as society moves through the great transformation of the 21st century.
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Collected Works of University of California’s Lingusitic Minority Research Institute now available
CRP makes LMRI documents available to the public via the University of California's eScholarhip, an open-access, scholarly publishing service.
Jan 11, 2012
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Call for Papers to Inform Policymakers About Race and Gender Disparities in School Discipline
The Center for Civil Rights Remedies (CCRR) at the Civil Rights Project, in collaboration with the Research-to-Practice Collaborative on Race and Gender Disparities in School Discipline, seeks research papers that will inform school discipline policies at the district, state ...
Dec 16, 2011
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Statement on Devastating Cuts to Magnet Schools in LA Unified
The state now threatens the coup de grace, which is to eliminate entirely magnet bus transportation, and with it the possibility for students who can’t provide their own transportation to attend magnet schools. Cutting bus transportation will substantially eliminate the di ...
Dec 14, 2011
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Statement on New Guidance from Departments of Education and Justice
CRP statement on the long awaited policy guidance from the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice to K-12 schools and colleges and universities across the U.S., about the ways in which they can legally and effectively pursue their compelling educational interest of reduci ...
Dec 02, 2011
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CRP Announces New Book published by UNC Press
The Civil Rights Project announces the publication of Integrating Schools in a Changing Society: New Policies and Legal Options for a Multiracial Generation, a new book of cutting-edge scholarship on the forces shaping the future of school integration policy following the S ...
Nov 29, 2011
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Report Shows Poorly Educated Workers at Bottom of So Cal's Broken Economic Ladder
By focusing on underemployment rates in addition to the numbers of unemployed, this report provides a more accurate measure of the health of the labor market in Southern California and finds a marked increase in the concentration of people clinging to the bottom of the state ...
Dec 20, 2011
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UCLA Research Center Releases Studies Showing Barriers To College From State Budget Cuts Growing
The reports clearly show the very dramatic impact of cuts implemented prior to this year, with huge cuts now being imposed certain to intensify the situation. In a policy briefing today, representatives of the California Senate Education Committee, the California Postseconda ...
Jun 15, 2011
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College Affordability at Risk for Latino, African American & American Indian Youth
The Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles at UCLA released two studies showing that college affordability in California is at risk and financial aid is urgently needed. Across the board students are found to be working too many hours to keep up with their studies an ...
May 10, 2011
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Education for Students at CSUs Shortchanged by State’s Fiscal Crisis
Faculty in Crisis is a two-part study and the second in a series of reports about the devastating effects of state budget cuts on the California State University system. The reports find that many professors in the CSU system feel that the cutbacks already implemented, coup ...
Apr 06, 2011
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Separate and Unequal Schools Pervasive in Southern California
California has become a national leader in school segregation for Latino students who are now a clear majority of all students in Southern California, the center of the nation’s largest Latino community. The Southern California region is also home to the West’s largest ...
Mar 18, 2011
