The Center conducts new research, takes direct action to improve policy, creates models for federal and state legislation, issues requests for administrative action, and provides supports to civil rights groups, state agencies and local educational organizations actively engaged in the legal remedy process.

The Project has five goals:

1. Document excessive disciplinary exclusion by race and infuse this information into the debate on school reform.
2. Improve the quality of policy research and increase awareness about important findings and best practices.
3. Enhance the capacity of advocates to press for successful remedies.
4. Support community groups and school districts during the remedy stage in their work to implement reforms, monitor their impact and to modify the remedies as needed.
5. Serve a watchdog function by describing the data, analyzing federal and state policy implementation and enforcement actions and notifying advocates about statutory and regulatory developments through its website.