Zack DiGregorio

Jan 13, 2025 | tcf.org | Jeanne Lambrew |Thomas Waldrop |Vina Smith-Ramakrishnan |Zack DiGregorio

In the coming weeks, the incoming Trump administration and Congress will debate a ten-year budget resolution that likely includes large Medicaid spending reductions. TCF’s analysis shows…. Targets of cutting $100 billion in the Medicaid budget equals the coverage cost of 3.7 million children, or the total number of babies born in the U.S. each year.

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?

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.

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.

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.