Center for Civil Rights Remedies
The Center for Civil Rights Remedies is a new initiative that began in the summer of 2011. The CCRR's special projects, on the School-to-Prison Pipeline and Racial Inequity in Special Eduction, are supported with funding from Atlantic Philanthropies and carried out under the auspices of the Civil Rights Project and in collaboration with several partner organizations.
Mission:
The Civil Rights Project’s Center for Civil Rights Remedies (CCRR) is
dedicated to improving educational opportunities and outcomes for
children from subgroups who have been discriminated against historically
due to their race/ethnicity, and who are frequently subjected to
exclusionary practices such as disciplinary removal, over-representation
in special education, and reduced access to a college-bound curriculum
What we do:
The Center conducts new research on educational policy and practice to identify problems or issues with implementation, takes direct action to improve policy, and enhances the capacity of advocates to press for successful remedies at the local, state and federal levels. We develop research-based remedies relevant to policymakers and educators, models for federal and state legislation, requests for administrative action, and supports to civil rights groups, state agencies and local educational organizations actively engaged in the remedy process.
