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- Committee Vote Sends President Obama’s Secretary of Labor Nominee Tom Perez to Full Senate May 21, 2013
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Tag Archives: Racial Disparities
Closing the School Discipline Gap: From Research to Action
By Gabriella Ramel, a Spring 2013 intern at The Leadership Conference Education Fund At a conference on “Closing the School Discipline Gap” held last week at the Gallup world headquarters in Washington, D.C., researchers, civil rights advocates, and educators gathered … Continue reading
Jon Stewart Interviews Director of ‘The House I Live In’ and Talks about Devastating Consequences of the ‘War on Drugs’
Director Eugene Jarecki’s new film, The House I Live In, looks at the extreme human and financial costs of the so the called War on Drugs that has ruined millions of lives and led to the mass incarceration of millions of … Continue reading
Civil Rights News: Disabled Students Suspended at Higher Rates; Report Faults Florida on Black Student Suspensions; California Focusing on Minority Boys’ Health, Education
Compiled by Rachel Barr, a Summer 2012 Leadership Conference Education Fund Intern Suspensions Are Higher for Disabled Students, Federal Data Indicate Motoko Rich The New York Times New research by the US Department of Education shows that the percentage of … Continue reading
Early Release Begins for Thousands Imprisoned Under Harsh Crack Cocaine Laws
As CNN reports, under the recently enacted Fair Sentencing Act (FSA) – which President Obama signed on August 3, 2010 – prison terms have started ending early for thousands of people who were sentenced under laws that required extreme mandatory sentences … Continue reading
Racial Disparities in School Discipline Feeding the ‘School-to-Prison’ Pipeline, Report Finds
By Laurie McGowan, a fall 2011 intern Public schools are suspending Blacks and Latinos and students with disabilities at much higher rates than others, according to recent findings by the National Education Policy Center (NEPC). In a newly released report, … Continue reading
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Tagged education, equal opportunity, Racial Disparities
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End Drug War, Says Jimmy Carter and Members of Congress
Former President Jimmy Carter called for an end to the war on drugs in an op-ed published in today’s edition of the New York Times. “Drug policies here are more punitive and counterproductive than in other democracies, and have brought … Continue reading
