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A Member of the Law Professor Blogs Networken-US2020-05-17T05:40:04-07:00Giving Private Schools Federal Emergency Funds Slated for Low-income Students Will Shortchange At-risk Kids
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Low-income Seattle students began to pick up bagged lunches in March after their school closed. Karen Ducey/Getty Images Derek W. Black, University of South Carolina Public schools have faced three distinct challenges since the coronavirus pandemic began – scrambling to make sure that low-income children don’t go hungry, teaching students...Federal policySchool FundingDerek Black2020-05-17T05:40:04-07:00Upcoming National School Integration Conference
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Fifth National Conference on School Integration Join over 400 people from across the country to discuss and strengthen strategies for promoting racial and socioeconomic integration in elementary and secondary schools at our fifth national conference: National Conference on School Integration March 26-27th, 2020 JW Marriott Washington, DC Register for NCSD2020...Derek Black2020-02-21T09:20:21-08:00Democratic Plans to Boost School Funding Don't Pander to Teachers--They Seek an Important Goal This Nation Has Never Before Attempted
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Research shows that school funding impacts student achievement. Rido/Shutterstock.com Derek W. Black, University of South Carolina With few exceptions, the various Democratic plans for public education share a common theme: more funding, less privatizing. Candidates Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Bernie Sanders have promised to dramatically increase or triple current...Federal policySchool FundingDerek Black2019-11-18T11:18:37-08:00Education Law Association 2019 Annual Conference
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The Education Law Association will host its annual conference on November 13-16, 2019 in Norfolk, Virginia. As always, the conference is packed with numerous nuanced education law issues and topics. This year Justin Driver, author of the Schoolhouse Gate, will offer the keynote. Mark Walsh, as in the past, will...Derek Black2019-09-03T07:53:50-07:00Closing the Gap: Solutions to Educational Inequality (Call for Papers)
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Education is the bedrock of a nation’s development, yet more than sixty years after Brown v. Board of Education, America remains a country with significant barriers to equal education for all. This is true despite the fact that, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. per-student spending is...Derek Black2019-06-18T09:39:59-07:00Maryland and New Hampshire Plaintiffs File School Funding Lawsuits within One Week of Each Other, What Gives?
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For the second time in a week, plaintiffs have filed major school funding lawsuits. A few days ago, plaintiffs in Baltimore filed a lawsuit against the state, claiming that the state was way out of compliance with the terms of its previously agreed upon settlement and funding formula. Data indicates...School FundingDerek Black2019-03-14T06:00:41-07:00Maryland, Once a Surprising School Funding Success Story, Is Heading Back to Court
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Maryland was one of our school funding success stories, and an oddball of sorts. The first part of the story follows the script. In 1994, Baltimore City plaintiffs filed a lawsuit against the state of Maryland, alleging that state funding was insufficient for student to receive an adequate education. The...School FundingDerek Black2019-03-12T05:28:47-07:00Ensuring Racial Equality – from Classrooms to Bathrooms – Depends on Federal Regulations Trump Wants to Roll Back
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Preventing discrimination in the classroom. Shutterstock Derek W. Black, University of South Carolina The Trump administration is considering eliminating one of the federal government’s most basic tools for preventing racial discrimination. When the government runs or funds programs, those programs are obligated to ensure that everyone gets equal access and...DisciplineDiscriminationFederal policyRacial Integration and DiversityDerek Black2019-03-11T04:56:00-07:00DeVos Attempts to Roll Back Student Protections Once Again Crumbles Before the Judiciary
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For the second time this school year, Betsy DeVos got a judicial smack down for attempting to eliminate regulations from the prior administration. In September, it was over protections for student loan borrowers. Yesterday, it was over racial disparities in special education. In both cases, DeVos’s justifications for reversing Obama-era...Federal policySpecial EducationDerek Black2019-03-08T05:57:12-08:00Charter Schools Exploit Lucrative Loophole That Would Be Easy to Close
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Some charter school operators make profits by leasing space to themselves at unusually high rates. By Ilya Andriyanov from www.shutterstock.com Derek W. Black, University of South Carolina; Bruce Baker, Rutgers University, and Preston Green III, University of Connecticut While critics charge that charter schools are siphoning money away from public...Charters and VouchersDerek Black2019-03-07T04:55:34-08:00Landmark Disability Screening Program Underway for Flint Schoolchildren
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This from the Education Law Center: Students in Flint, Michigan, are beginning to receive high quality screenings and evaluations through the Flint Registry and Genesee Health System/Hurley Children’s Hospital Neurodevelopmental Center of Excellence (NCE) to identify disabilities that may entitle them to special education services. The screening and evaluation program...Special EducationDerek Black2018-12-18T08:42:51-08:00New Jersey Supreme Court Ends Challenge to Teacher Tenure Laws
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In a short one-pager, the New Jersey Supreme Court just ended the litigation war on teachers tenure in the state. By my count, this marks at least the fourth major loss for those using the courts to pursue their anti-teacher tenure agenda. And they have still yet to win a...TeachersDerek Black2018-12-13T05:08:30-08:00Fight for Federal Right to Education Takes a New turn
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The nation’s founders saw education as key to self-rule. Joseph Sohm/www.shutterstock.com Derek W. Black, University of South Carolina A new fight to secure a federal constitutional right to education is spreading across the country. This fight has been a long time coming and is now suddenly at full steam. In...Derek Black2018-12-11T05:37:28-08:00Ensuring Well-Informed Citizens through Public Education, Then and Now
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In October, I had the privilege of participating in a Tedx event sponsored by the University of South Carolina. The subject of my talk was the danger our democracy faces when we fail to ensure equal and adequate public education. I offered warnings and lessons from both the perspective of...School FundingDerek Black2018-12-10T05:21:31-08:00New Jersey Must Rein in Improper Charter Growth
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This from the Education Law Center: Education Law Center is urging the New Jersey Department of Education (NJDOE) to take immediate steps to reverse course from a decade of explosive and improper growth of charter school enrollment, targeted in the state’s high poverty, racially isolated school districts. “In allowing charter...Charters and VouchersDerek Black2018-12-07T04:52:34-08:00International Body Confirms It: Our School Segregation Problem Is Dragging Student Achievement Down
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Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development just released its report on education equity and mobility. The results for the United States aren’t pretty. For those unfamiliar, the report analyzes massive amount of data and makes international comparisons. The organization is comprised of representatives from 36 different member countries. As to...Racial Integration and DiversityDerek Black2018-10-25T05:36:18-07:00All Signs Point Toward a Constitutional Problem in Virginia's Education System
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Education advocates have struggled to force Virginia to live up to its constitutional duties. And as a result, the state has had carte blanche to mistreat its public schools. It is little surprise that the most recent School Funding Fairness Report rates Virginia’s school funding as an “F” in terms...Derek Black2018-10-25T05:03:59-07:00The Days of Charter Schools and Vouchers Are Numbered
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If you were trying to make a buck on the side and were pretty sure that some new or improved technology would drastically undercut the market for cell phones within five years, would you invest in Apple stock or look for other opportunities? Well, that is the type of information...Derek Black2018-10-23T05:49:00-07:00Dream Job for the Education Law Attorney
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Education law job opportunities at places like the NAACP LDF, MALDEF, the Lawyers' Committee and the Southern Poverty Law Center don't come around that often. The same is true of the Education Law Center, the nation's premier education funding and quality organization. Yesterday, I received notice that the Education Law...Derek Black2018-10-23T04:46:19-07:00Someone Is Doing the Department of Education's Job for It, Thank Goodness
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A decade ago, I founded the Education Rights Center at Howard University School of Law. One of my driving motivations was the notion that everyday people needed basic information about their schools and rights. There was a plethora of data embedded in databases and spreadsheets, and there was a ton...Derek Black2018-10-16T05:55:53-07:00