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2009

National Conference

November 13, 2009

Howard University School of Law 

Washington, DC

Reaffirming the Role of School Integration in K-12 Public Education Policy: A Conversation Among Policymakers, Advocates and Educators brings together a wide range of government officials to converse with educators, civil rights advocates, and scholars who support racially and economically integrated K-12 public schools.

For registration questions, please call 919-843-5463 or email civilrights@unc.edu.
For conference updates or to join the conference mailing list, email gchirichigno@law.harvard.edu or call 617-496-3884.

Participants will learn about racial and socioeconomic integration incentives in current and proposed federal policies, regulations and spending programs. Panelists and audience members also will discuss current integration efforts on the ground that sustain quality integrated schools and stable communities.

$50 General Registration • $25 Student Registration - The registration fee includes lunch and conference materials. Please see the registration page for more details, including the cancellation policy. A limited number of registration stipends are available.

Hosted by:

  • NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.

  • Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund

  • The ACLU Racial Justice Program

  • Poverty & Race Research Action Council

  • Leadership Conference on Civil Rights

  • Citizens’ Commission on Civil Rights

  • The Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles at UCLA

  • The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice at Harvard Law School

  • The Center for Civil Rights at UNC School of Law

  • Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race & Ethnicity at the Ohio State University

  • Institute on Race and Poverty at the University of Minnesota Law School

  • Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity and Diversity at Berkeley Law School

  • Howard University School of Law Education Rights Center

  • The Fair Housing Law Clinical Program at Howard University School of Law

  • Center for Understanding Race and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University

  • Education and the Public Interest Center (EPIC) at the University of Colorado at Boulder

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