2016 Press Releases

Study Finds Many Charter Schools Feeding "School-to-Prison Pipeline"

A first-ever analysis of school discipline records for the nation’s more than 5,250 charter schools shows a disturbing number are suspending big percentages of their black students and students with disabilities at highly disproportionate rates compared to white and non-disabled students.

Brown at 62: School Segregation by Race, Poverty and State

This research brief shows how intensifying segregation interacts with a dramatic increase in concentrated poverty in our schools, escalating the educational harm.

School Suspensions Cost Taxpayers Billions

UCLA Study: More Suspensions Lead to More Dropouts; Over a Lifetime, More Dropouts Mean Reduced Tax Revenue, and Higher Costs for Crime, Welfare, and Health Care.

California Community Colleges Have Opportunity to Increase BAs for Underrepresented Students

With the passage of California State Bill 850 in 2015 and new community college bachelor’s degree programs due to commence in 2017, California has the unprecedented opportunity to provide an important spur to the state’s economy and make significant gains in BA production among its underrepresented (URM) students.

Educational Needs of Students We Share Go Unmet. Symposium examines educational experiences of students who attend school on both sides of the border. Seeks solutions to improve learning opportunities.

The United States and Mexico share hundreds of thousands of students, but their educational needs too often go unmet and their potential is imperiled because of poor communication, bureaucratic challenges, language barriers and inadequate and unequal educational opportunities on both sides of the border, said educational researchers from both countries at a research symposium in Mexico City.