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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

 

CALL FOR PERSONAL STORIES: Turning Around the School-to-Prison Pipeline

The Center for Civil Rights Remedies is seeking personal stories for possible inclusion in an upcoming book, “Closing the School Discipline Gap,” by Teachers College Press, and for use in additional forthcoming reports containing profiles of large districts.