2014 Press Releases

Northern New England Schools Experience Early Racial Change

In this report, school segregation in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont is analyzed and found to be presently modest and localized, especially compared to other parts of the country, but slow increases in racial diversity signal changes ahead for the region’s schools. The authors urge the states and schools to act now to create policies addressing racial change and integration, before segregation becomes entrenched.

Education Tool Guides Districts and Schools on Using LCFF to Narrow EL Achievement Gaps

A new educational guide is available that helps California schools, districts and teachers target the best ways to implement California's Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), so that it narrows the achievement gaps between the state’s English Learners (ELs) and all other students. The guidance recommends research-based practices that innovate and reshape ways for addressing the educational needs of ELs.

California The Most Segregated State for Latino Students

State Has Little to Celebrate 60 Years After Brown v Board of Education.

Two of Three CA School Districts Reduce Out-of-School Suspensions as Discipline Gap Narrows

Based on the statewide averages for 2011-12 and 2012-13, progress was made in reducing out-of-school suspensions in California schools for every racial/ethnic subgroup. “Disruption/Willful Defiance” suspensions still, however, account for the largest share of the problem.

UCLA Report Finds Changing U.S. Demographics Transform School Segregation Landscape 60 Years After Brown v Board of Education

Segregation Increases after Desegregation Plans Terminated by Supreme Court

Demographic Divide Intensifying in Southern California, Between Regions and Across Race

The report reveals the depth and scope of the demographic shifts within our social and urban landscapes, due to international immigration, changes in birth rates, and internal migration patterns.

North Carolina’s Black Students Increasingly Isolated in Schools after Many Desegregation Plans Dissolved

Racial and Economic Isolation Intensifies Despite an Increasingly Multiracial Enrollment.

New York Schools Most Segregated in the Nation

UCLA report identifies alarming trends throughout the Empire State.

Delaware’s School Resegregation Increasing after Dissolution of its Groundbreaking Metropolitan Desegregation Plan

"The Courts, the Legislature and Delaware’s Resegregation" summarizes substantial research showing segregated schools’ strong links to multiple forms of unequal educational opportunity and outcomes.