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Reaction to Supreme Court Decision in Michigan Prop 2 Case

The Civil Rights Project deeply regrets yesterday’s decision by the Supreme Court, which ruled that Michigan’s Proposal 2, banning race-conscious college admissions, is constitutional.

Policy Briefing Spotlights What Works to Eliminate Disparities in School Discipline

A recent policy briefing in Washington, DC, on Thursday, March 13, 2014, highlighted the results of nearly three years of work by The Discipline Disparities Research-to-Practice Collaborative, 26 national experts on disparities in school discipline, including CRP's Center for Civil Rights Remedies.

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.