Press & Updates

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 […]

Monthly Digest with Coalition Updates, Must-Read News, and Upcoming Events Dear Coalition members, friends, and partners, It is with great pleasure that I announce our newest DCSC member schools! Our newest members come from six different states. They include dual language and International Baccalaureate programs. These new members also [...]

Monthly Digest with Coalition Updates, Must-Read News, and Upcoming Events Dear Coalition members, friends, and partners, The end of the school year provides us with an annual opportunity to reflect. Looking back, I think about our member schools coming together in order to make this work possible. Throughout the year, leaders from across our [...]

Bernie Sanders recently unveiled his education plan, naming it for the legendary activist, lawyer and Supreme Court Justice, Thurgood Marshall.  Centering the plan on the man most associated with the famous Brown v. Board of Education ruling in 1954 signals racial justice as a key priority.  Justice Marshall has been our touchstone at the [...]

Recently the Diverse Charter School Coalition’s UnifiEd School Launch Fellows team met up in Los Angeles for Excellent School Visits. In a city recently making education headlines we were excited to get on the ground with member schools and hear their stories, celebrate their successes, and learn from their work. Over the course of the […]

Monthly Digest with Coalition Updates, Must-Read News, and Upcoming Events Dear Coalition members, friends, and partners, DCSC is a nascent organization, founded by you, our members, with the mission to promote, expand and support your work. In reflecting on this, I’m struck with gratitude and appreciation for all of our members, both [...]