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CRP Researchers Reaffirm Findings of Increasing Segregation

Several researchers have recently published articles claiming that school segregation has actually not increased in recent decades, as we have reported in our publications. It turns out that these researchers preferred to measure something else—the randomness of distribution of four racial groups across metropolitan areas. This measure has never been the goal of desegregation policies, nor the way in which progress was measured in civil rights law and enforcement.

Policy Report Dispels Misconceptions about Prop 209, SATs and Asian American/Pacific Islanders in Higher Education

A coalition primarily of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) civil rights and higher education groups present this policy report to dispel public misconceptions that have recently surfaced around efforts to diversify higher education.

CRP's Center for Civil Rights Remedies joins civil rights groups in complaint vs. Wake County school policing policy

Center for Civil Rights Remedies joined local advocates in North Carolina asserting Wake County school policing violates civil rights laws.

Civil Rights Project Hails New Federal Guidance on School Discipline

The Department of Justice and the Education Department today jointly released guidance to public schools that should help curb what many call the school-to-prison pipeline, which often begins when students are excluded from school and too often ends with incarceration as adults, a pattern very disproportionately impacting students of color.

NEW RESOURCES: Two webinar recordings on school discipline and affirmative action