Upcoming Center for Civil Rights Conferences

"Reaffirming the Role of School Integration in K-12 Education Policy: A Conversation Among Policymakers, Advocates and Educators"

Friday, November 13, 2009
10:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Moot Court Rm., Houston Hall
Howard University School of Law
2900 Van Ness Street, N.W. Washington, D.C.

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This conference 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. 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.

Russlynn Ali, Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education, will brief the audience about DOE policies and programs. Officials from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development will provide information about housing initiatives. Panel topics include:

• Current Legal Guidelines Governing School Integration;
• The Federal Education Budget and Policies to Promote K-12 School Integration;
• School Integration Through Interdistrict Strategies; and,
• Programs Linking Housing Opportunity to Integrated Schools.

Convenors

• NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.
• ACLU Racial Justice Program
• Poverty & Race Research Action Council
• Citizens' Commission on Civil Rights
• 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
• Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles at UCLA
• Howard University School of Law Education Rights Center
• The Fair Housing Law Clinical Program at Howard University School of Law
• Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity and Diversity at Berkeley
• Center for Understanding Race and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University
• Education and the Public Interest Center at the University of Colorado-Boulder

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

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"Unless our children begin to learn together,
there is little hope that our people will ever learn to live together"
Dissent of Justice Thurgood Marshall, Milliken v. Bradley (1974)