Events for Intentionally Integrated Schools

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The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools is proud to celebrate National Charter Schools Week, May 12-18. This year’s theme is Raise Your Voice–and we plan to do just that.

Come see what we have in store for this annual celebration as we raise the voices of charter school advocates across the country and highlight changemakers in public education! The communications team at the National Alliance will share how to get your school, network, or organization involved in the celebration and leverage the National Charter Schools Week 2024 toolkit.

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice”

–Martin Luther King, Jr.

On May 6, 2024, the Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford and The Stanford Institute for Advancing Just Societies will host a conference to reflect on the legacy of the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision and chart the unfinished business of school integration. This event was made possible by generous support from Stanford Accelerator for Learning, Stanford Center for Racial Justice, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford Graduate School of Education, and Stanford Law School.

May 17, 2024, marks the 70th anniversary of the 1954 Brown decision, in which the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that, “in the field of public education, the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.” This decision marked a monumental shift in American history.

That landmark ruling led to a dramatic decline in school segregation from the 1960s to the 1980s. The shift from segregated to more integrated schools significantly changed the course of Black children’s lives, leading to greater educational attainment and better future economic outcomes. These benefits echoed across generations, improving the lives of the children and grandchildren of Black students who attended integrated schools as a result of the Brown decision.

But the legacy of the Brown decision faces challenges in today’s increasingly diverse society. Since the late 1980s, progress on addressing segregation has stalled; racial and economic segregation has grown steadily in the last 35 years. Despite clear evidence of the benefits of racial and economic integration, school segregation remains one of the most stubborn social problems of our time.

The conference, led by sean f. reardon (Stanford) and Ann Owens (USC), will bring together educators, policymakers, and leading scholars and legal experts to distill the lessons of recent research on segregation and craft a new agenda for addressing racial and economic segregation in American schools.

Join us as we delve into the updated second edition of our Model Policy Guide. This enriching webinar with experts in the field will explore critical principles and strategies for promoting inclusive education within charter schools.

As the landmark Brown v. Board decision turns 70, the country’s leading education researchers, civil rights advocates, legislators, community leaders and others will convene for dozens of interactive sessions on what we have learned in the 70 years since the Brown v. Board decision and where we go from here.

Featured Speakers

• Travis Bristol, Associate Professor of Teacher Education and Education Policy, University of California, Berkeley
• Melanie Carter, Associate Provost & Director, Center for HBCU Research, Leadership, and Policy, Howard University
• Chris Chatmon, CEO, Kingmakers of Oakland
• David Coleman, CEO, College Board
• Linda Darling-Hammond, President and CEO, Learning Policy Institute; Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education Emeritus, Stanford University
• Tyrone Howard, Professor of Education, University of California, Los Angeles
• Rucker Johnson, Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley
• Gloria Ladson-Billings, Professor Emerita of Urban Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Carol Lee, President, National Academy of Education Sciences; Professor Emerita, Northwestern University
• Chase Moore, Special Assistant, Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department of Education
• Na’ilah Suad Nasir, President, Spencer Foundation
• Pedro Noguera, Emery Stoops and Joyce King Stoops Dean, Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California
• Gary Orfield, Distinguished Research Professor of Education, University of California, Los Angeles; Co-Director, Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles
• Congressman Robert “Bobby” C. Scott (D-Virginia), Chair, Committee on Education and Labor
• Ken Wesson, Neuroscience  Educational Consultant

Additional speakers to be announced.

If you have questions about this event, please contact NCoEDEquity@gmail.com.