2014 Site News

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Researchers and Advocates Join Letter Urging Improved Public Reporting of Discipline Data

The Center for Civil Rights Remedies of the Civil Rights Project at UCLA and 14 co-signatories comment on proposed revisions to the Department of Education's State Performance Plan (SPP) and the Annual Performance Report (APR).

Center for Civil Rights Remedies joined by 32 organizations and 19 scholars urge Department of Education to Address Racial Discipline Disparities among Students with Disabilities

Center for Civil Rights Remedies joined by 32 organizations and 19 scholars urge Department of Education to Address Racial Discipline Disparities among Students with Disabilities: The attached letter was posted on Monday in response to a “request for information” from Assistant Secretary of Education Michael Yudin.

A Dream Undone? Higher Education Access and Opportunity in a Shifting Legal Landscape

CRP and partners launch groundbreaking study to examine how legal challenges to race-conscious admissions have changed contemporary admissions practices at selective colleges and universities.

Groups File Civil Rights Complaint Challenging Tracking and Discipline Practices in South Orange-Maplewood School District

The complaint was brought by CRP's Center for Civil Rights Remedies, the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of New Jersey.

Experts Say Schools Can’t Address Racial Disparities in Discipline without Confronting Racial Issues

Research Collaborative Urges School Data Collection, Frank Conversation, and Adoption of New Practices