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Complaint details discriminatory impact of school closures in Louisiana parish
Content warning: This article describes incidents in which racist language was used. There are at least six churches within three blocks of Washington Elementary School in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, a community institution that has, since its dedication in 1936, started generations of Black and Brown children on their educational journeys. But the prayers coming from…
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Supreme Court’s abortion ruling disproportionately affects Black people with low incomes in the Deep South
Even before Alauni took an at-home pregnancy test just four weeks after a single instance of unplanned sexual activity, she knew it would be positive. The 24-year-old Texas college student – a single, working mother of three children under the age of 6, one of whom is autistic – immediately felt the familiar signs of…
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The Fiscal Consequences of Private School Vouchers
Report documents explosive growth in voucher spending in seven states and its impact on public education
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Free Speech Rights for Educators and Students in Georgia
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Not Making The Grade: School funding policies in eight Southern states fail students of color and those living in poverty, new report says
Funding for public schools across the South continues to lag far behind the rest of the nation, a failure that is having an outsized impact on students of color and students living in or near poverty, according to a new study by Education Law Center (ELC) and the Southern Poverty Law Center. The report – Inequity in School Funding: Southern States…
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Inequity in School Funding
Southern States Must Prioritize Fair Public School Spending
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Florida State Conference of NAACP, et al., v. Florida Department of Health (request for administrative hearing)
The SPLC, the Law Offices of Joshua Spector, P.A. and the Education Law Center of New Jersey filed a lawsuit that seeks a hearing before the Florida Division of Administrative Hearings to invalidate an emergency rule under which the state Department of Health prohibits mask requirements in public schools across Florida. The lawsuit was filed…
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