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THE HUB OF THE SCHOOL INTEGRATION MOVEMENT

2012

National Conference

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May 17, 2012

Georgetown University Law Center Washington, DC

Held on the anniversary of Brown v. Board, NCSD's second national conference focused on the coalition's efforts to secure a more significant commitment to integration in U.S. Department of Education programs, including magnet schools, turnaround schools, charter schools, interdistrict transfers under NCLB, and in “Race to the Top” and other federal school reform programs.

Main event contact: Contact Gina Chirichigno at gchirichigno@prrac.org with any questions.

During "Advancing the Legacy of Mendez and Brown," we heard from several agency officials from the Department of Education as well as staff from the DOJ's Civil Rights Division. We were honored to welcome Sylvia Mendez (Plaintiff in California's landmark 1946 Mendez v. Westminster desegregation case) as a guest speaker. At this conference, NCSD really began to dig into the complexities of school integration, with sessions like It’s Complicated: Untangling the Discourse about Neighborhood Schools and Diversity; Beyond Black and White: Advocating for Integration in Latino and Asian American Communities; and Truth, Reconciliation, and Healing: Acknowledging Experiences with Court-Ordered Desegregation. We heard directly from several school superintendents in the midst of navigating demographic change and integration: Demond Means (Wisconsin), Melissa Krull (Minnesota), and Del Burns (North Carolina). We also held our first in-person meeting of the Research Advisory Panel the day following the conference.

Event Sponsors:

Thank you to the 2012 Conference Sponsors:

  • NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.

  • Poverty & Race Research Action Council

  • One Nation Indivisible

  • Capitol Region Education Council

  • Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles at UCLA

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

  • Institute on Race and Poverty at the University of Minnesota

  • The Leadership Conference Education Fund

  • American Civil Liberties Union, Racial Justice Program

  • National Education Policy Center at the University of Colorado

  • University of North Carolina Center for Civil Rights

  • Mexican American

  • Legal Defense and Educational Fund

  • New York Appleseed

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