A detailed analysis of state-provided data has found racial disparities in health care among the three million New Yorkers in the state’s public insurance programs.
Recent data has found that denying LGBT people equal access to the institution of marriage, protection from employment discrimination, and other civil rights and family benefits may be contributing to higher poverty rates in the LGBT community than in the general population overall. This issue brief examines the latest data on poverty in the LGBT community and outlines how the continued expansion of civil rights will help to reduce it.
A June 23, 2009 New York Times editorial put a human face on the struggles of students arriving in America as children and graduating high school only to face huge barriers imposed by their undocumented status. The editorial argued that the DREAM Act could open doors for these young people and should not be held hostage to larger immigration reform dreams.
Oklahoma's universal pre-K program has shown dramatic benefits for Hispanic students who participate in high-quality preschool programs. These children, especially those from Spanish-speaking homes, improve their English and cognitive development skills and are more likely to be prepared for kindergarten than those not enrolled.
This Harvard Civil Rights Project report outlines serious challenges to the dream of equal opportunity for all students. Recent court decisions have made it more difficult to fight pressures for re-segregation -- blacks and Latino students are segregated more now than in the last four decades. The failure to address the challenges of growing student diversity is leading to a two-tiered educational system that isolates white students and disadvantages students of color.
The National Council of La Raza NCLR)—the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States—hosts Achieving the American Dream in a New Century.
It's the ultimate back-to-school story: about 80 middle-aged Virginians are heading back to the classroom--more than four decades after their educations were derailed by the state's "massive resistance" campaign, which led some Virginia communities to shut down their public schools rather than integrate them. Connect for Kids Editor Susan Phillips spoke to recipients of Virginia's new Brown v. Board of Education scholarships.
It would take a lot more than the 28 days of February to explore the new Web-based teaching tool on African-American migration from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Rob Capriccioso reports on the recently unveiled “In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience.”
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