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Washington Post, May 10, 2019 Sixty-five years ago, the Supreme Court declared that segregated public schools were “inherently unequal” and unconstitutional, smashing a 1896 ruling that permitted “whites-only” and “Negroes-only” schools. The historic Brown vs. Board of Education...

Penn State News, May 10, 2019 As the nation prepares to mark the 65th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling declaring segregation in public schools unconstitutional, the UCLA Civil Rights Project and the Penn State Center for Education and Civil Rights...

Bustle, May 17, 2019 May 17 marks the 65th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling, which determined that public school segregation was unconstitutional. However, a recent report from UCLA and Penn State called "Harming Our Common Future: America's...

Politico, May 10, 2019 — Education groups are mobilizingagainst a provision in a House retirement savings package that would expand the use of tax-advantaged 529 accounts for home schooling. — Researchers are concerned about rising racial segregation in U.S. schools ahead of the...

AL.com, August 29, 2018 The recent opening of Sumter County's first fully-integrated public school, University Charter School in Livingston, got a lot of attention by news agencies across the country. Though the general reaction was somewhere between 'it's about time' and 'what a...

The Conversation, April 12, 2018 Editor’s note: The word “secession” is often used in reference to states or countries that wish to break off and form their own government. But here in the United States, there are communities that want to secede from their school districts to form...

The New York Times, February 28, 2018 “Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white – separate and unequal.” Fifty years ago, on March 1, 1968, these were the grim words of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, called the Kerner Commission after...