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1 month ago | 
tcf.org | Kings Floyd |Peter Granville |Chantal Hinds |Halley Potter
Jump to K-12 education; higher education; overall risk for the nation. The Trump administration is poised to issue executive orders that would dismantle
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Casey Stockstill |Halley Potter |Jonathan Zabala |Conor Williams
This report is part of a research project in partnership with the Trust for Learning highlighting how early childhood programs can blend and braid funding to serve diverse groups of children.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Halley Potter |Casey Stockstill |Conor Williams |Jonathan Zabala
This profile is part of a research project in partnership with the Trust for Learning highlighting how early childhood programs can blend and braid funding to serve diverse groups of children.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Casey Stockstill |Halley Potter |Alejandra Vazquez Baur |Amber Villalobos
This profile is part of a research project in partnership with the Trust for Learning highlighting how early childhood programs can blend and braid funding to serve diverse groups of children.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Chantal Hinds |Halley Potter |Jonathan Zabala |Alejandra Vazquez Baur
Earlier this year, the Heritage Foundation released Project 2025, a roadmap for a presidential administration to enact far-right policies. If they were to become reality, these proposed policies would have far-reaching effects for Americans, from restricting health care access to exploiting child labor to decreasing environmental protections. In early learning and K–12 education, the changes would also be dramatic, and would include shuttering the U. S.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Chantal Hinds |Tiara Moultrie |Maggie Marcus |Halley Potter
There are approximately 250,000 students in the foster system in our nation’s schools. These students are among the groups of students with the most need. They experience higher and/or disproportionate rates of chronic absenteeism, school discipline, and rates of special education. These students also have lower graduation rates and state test scores than their non-foster-system peers.
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Stefan Lallinger |Alejandra Vazquez Baur |Zack DiGregorio |Halley Potter
What differentiates affinity spaces from segregation? In this clip from TCF’s seventieth anniversary commemoration of Brown v. Board of Education (Brown v. Board at 70: Fulfilling the True Promise of School Integration), Dr. Stefan Lallinger describes the differences and talks about the power of agency and choice for young people in their education. For more on affinity spaces, see: Is the Fight for School Integration Still Worthwhile for African Americans?
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Jun 7, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Zack DiGregorio |Halley Potter |Jonathan Zabala |Alejandra Vazquez Baur
The following testimony was submitted to the U.S. House Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education in response to the committee’s June 4, 2024 hearing titled “The Consequences of Biden’s Border Chaos for K–12 Schools.” In it, TCF fellow Alejandra Vázquez Baur argues that immigrant students make our schools and school communities better, and that their right to education is firmly established in the Supreme Court’s decision in Plyler v. Doe and the Fourteenth Amendment.
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May 23, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Alejandra Vazquez Baur |Zack DiGregorio |Halley Potter |Jayla Hart
“Perhaps no case in modern memory has received so much media coverage and scholarly commentary,” said a Supreme Court justice before announcing the high court’s decision in the most consequential affirmative action case in a generation. The year was 1978. Justice Lewis Powell delivered the Court’s opinion in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke. Indeed, forty five years before the Supreme Court ruled in Students for Fair Admissions v.
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May 16, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Zack DiGregorio |Halley Potter |Alejandra Vazquez Baur |Maggie Marcus
This commentary is an updated version of an article originally published in the Poverty & Race Journal, Volume 33: Issue 1 (Link) on April 24, 2024. Around the birth of the Civil Rights Movement, integration efforts primarily aimed to desegregate Black and white communities in schools and beyond.
