Event: UCLA Civil Rights Project Hill Briefing (3/13/24)
Fact Sheet (Nov 2023): Overview of Specialized Schools Legal Challenges

The National Coalition on School Diversity (NCSD) is a network of national civil rights organizations, university-based research centers, and state and local coalitions working to expand support for government policies that promote school diversity and reduce racial and economic isolation in elementary and secondary schools. We also support the work of state and local school diversity practitioners. Our work is informed by an advisory panel of scholars and academic researchers whose work relates to issues of equity, diversity, and desegregation/integration.


 

MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS

NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund • Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund • American Civil Liberties Union • Poverty and Race Research Action Council • Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law • Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund • Magnet Schools of America • One Nation Indivisible • Southern Poverty Law Center • Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School • Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles at UCLA • Center for Educational Equity, Teachers College, Columbia University • University of North Carolina Center for Civil Rights • Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at The Ohio State University • Othering & Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley  • Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity and Diversity at UC Berkeley School of Law • Education Rights Center, Howard University School of Law • Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity at the University of Minnesota Law School • Education Law Center • New York Appleseed • Sheff Movement Coalition • Voluntary Interdistrict Choice Corporation • ERASE Racism • Chicago Lawyers’ Committee • Empire Justice Center • IntegrateNYC • Intercultural Development Research Association • Institute for Social Progress at Wayne County Community College District • Center on Law, Inequality, and Metropolitan Equity at Rutgers Law School • Reimagining Integration: The Diverse and Equitable Schools Project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education • Center for Education and Civil Rights at Pennsylvania State University • Lander Center for Educational Research at Touro College • Integrated Schools • The Office of Transformation and Innovation at the Dallas Independent School District • Live Baltimore • Maryland Equity Project • National Center for Montessori in the Public Sector • The Center for Diversity and Equality in Education at Rutgers University • Being Black at School • UnifiEd • The Sillerman Center for the Advancement of Philanthropy • Public Advocacy for Kids • The Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools • The School Diversity Notebook • Fair Housing Justice Center, Inc. • Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity, Inc. (METCO) • Learn Together, Live Together • Beloved Community • Learning Policy Institute • Public School Forum of North Carolina • The Bell • North Carolina Justice Center • The Bridges Collaborative at The Century Foundation • South Side Early Learning Center • Oneonta for Equality • NestQuest • Metis Associates

 

INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS

(Institutional affiliations listed for identification purposes only)

Professor Derek Black, University of South Carolina • Professor John Brittain, University of the District of Columbia School of Law • Professor Lia Epperson, American University Washington College of Law • Professor Erica Frankenberg, Penn State College of Education • Professor Rachel Godsil, Seton Hall University School of Law • Dianne Piche • Genevieve Siegel-Hawley, Virginia Commonwealth University • Professor Kevin Welner, University of Colorado • Christie Huck, City Garden Montessori School • Professor Elise Boddie, Rutgers Law School • David Hinojosa, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law • Dennis Parker, National Center for Law and Economic Justice • Damon Hewitt, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law • Jenn Ayscue, NC State College of Education • Janel George, Georgetown University School of Law • David Tipson • Cara McClellan, Advocacy for Racial and Civil Justice Clinic, Penn Law • Rick Kahlenberg