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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
Mississippi underfunding worsens a racially disparate education system
Mississippi’s education system has consistently ranked at or near the bottom nationally due to chronic underfunding as well as systemic issues of poverty and racial injustice that are rooted in the legacy of chattel slavery and oppression. For Black and Brown children in Mississippi, who comprise nearly a plurality of the state’s public school students,…
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
SPLC Sues Walton County School District for Disability Discrimination
WALTON COUNTY, Ga. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) recently filed both an Administrative Due Process Complaint and an Office for Civil Rights Discrimination Complaint against the Walton County School District. E.C., a Black middle school student with a disability, was asked by a white student to hand a vape pen to another white student. E.C. was the only student…
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
The State of Special Education in Mississippi
Mississippi’s education system has consistently ranked at or near the bottom nationally due to chronic underfunding as well as systemic issues of poverty and racial injustice that are rooted in the legacy of chattel slavery and oppression. Mississippi’s special education system, which is meant to provide a Free and Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) to children…
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
Georgia teen with dyslexia gets education assistance, thanks to SPLC lawsuit
Trinity is a lot like most 16-year-old girls. The rising high school sophomore speed-texts with her friends about everything and nothing and looks forward to the day when she can drive a car. When she is old enough, she wants to be an esthetician. What Trinity has never confided in most of her close friends…
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
Students from SPLC’s Youth Leadership Institute win college scholarships
One afternoon in May, Isabella Dennison and Madison Thompson received a message from the manager of the Civil Rights Memorial Center (CRMC), Lauren Blanding. Could they join her for dinner that evening? The guests included staffers from the Southern Poverty Law Center, which built and sponsors the CRMC at its Montgomery, Alabama, headquarters. The two…
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
Advocates Seek Continued Federal Oversight of Special Education in Louisiana
NEW ORLEANS – Last week, the Louisiana Legislative Auditor released a report critical of the Louisiana Department of Education’s (LDOE) oversight of special education services for students with disabilities. The systemic failures highlighted in the report are part of an ongoing consent judgment that stemmed from a federal lawsuit filed by the Southern Poverty Law…
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
New SPLC Poll Shows Floridians Overwhelmingly Support Public Education
FLORIDA — Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released a new statewide survey that shows most Floridians believe that a quality K-12 public education is a right, and that Florida should invest more in educating young people while allowing professional educators to guide curricula free from political influence. “In Florida, far-right groups supported by a handful of…
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
Tennessee Appellate Court Rules Parents and Community Members Can Challenge State’s Private School Voucher Law
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – In a significant win for Tennessee public school students and families, the Tennessee Court of Appeals last week reversed a lower court decision that dismissed a lawsuit challenging the state’s education savings account voucher law. The decision allows the case to move forward. The Court of Appeals determined that the plaintiffs in…
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
Coalition trains advocates of children with disabilities in Mississippi
Kate Centellas and her husband, Miguel, are professors at the University of Mississippi in Oxford. They have three children and live in a comfortable, upper-middle-class suburban house in a professional family neighborhood. Kate will tell you matter-of-factly that she is white, well-educated, financially secure and “privileged.” She will also tell you that even with those…
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