Press & Updates

Dear DCSC Members and Partners, We are thrilled to release our Request for Proposal for all experts in the field to lead our inaugural Communities of Practice. These peer-learning communities have the potential to be a game changer for DCSC members. Based on member input, we envision focused, intimate, and thriving learning communities working [...]

The SDAG’s Report  focuses on screens and test-in programs rightly highlights that these programs “segregate students by race, class, abilities and language and perpetuate stereotypes about student potential and achievement.” As a SDAG member I support the recommendations to eliminate exclusionary screens while creating new programs such as [...]

National Alliance to Award Second Annual Charter School Leadership Awards to Congressional Black Caucus Members and Charter School Leaders   WASHINGTON, D.C.— On Wednesday, September 11, the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools will honor eight African American leaders for raising the bar of excellence in public education and [...]

Monthly Digest with Coalition Updates, Must-Read News, and Upcoming Events Dear Coalition members, friends, and partners, Welcome back from the summer — and what a rollercoaster of a summer it’s been: continued racial turmoil in national headlines, increasing threats on school safety for students, and the precariousness of a sustainable [...]

In a recent ruling, California’s Attorney General has rightly condemned the Sausalito Marin City School District for “knowingly and intentionally” segregating its schools, calling its actions “warped” and “morally bankrupt.” What comes next could offer lessons for schools everywhere. Integration has been an especially hot topic since Kamala [...]

By Sonia Park America is more diverse than it’s ever been, as are the students attending public schools, but you wouldn’t know it by looking at individual schools. In fact, schools are the most segregated they’ve been in decades, and it’s getting worse. This startling news comes despite mounting evidence that shows racially and [...]

The RIDES Institute is a program of Professional Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The purpose of the RIDES Institute is for schools to improve their ability to achieve a vision around diversity, equity, and integration through an institute where teams engage in collaborative work, make strategic, evidence-based decisions, [...]

Monthly Digest with Coalition Updates, Must-Read News, and Upcoming Events Dear Coalition members, friends, and partners, What times we live in. The Diverse Charter Schools Coalition was founded to represent a community of schools that believe all children should be provided with an equitable education. We look for member schools who open [...]

By Sonia Park It’s been almost 50 years since Kamala Harris stepped onto a school bus and out of her racially redlined neighborhood amid the desegregation of the Berkeley, California, schools. Five decades later, the question of who goes to school where remains pivotal to kids’ and families’ lives and to the communities we build in […]

I hail from Washington, D.C. and am a Walton K-12 UNCF Fellow interning with the Diverse Charter Schools Coalition. As a rising senior at Virginia State University, I am involved in many things. I am a member and chair of the social action committee for Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated and also the Chief of […]