Press & Updates

It should be noted that four of five trends identified by Dana Goldstein are grounded in inequities and access: widening achievement gaps, weighting college access, curtailing charter schools and addressing segregation. These issues aren’t new but are now garnering more attention and focus – and rightly so.  From our perspective at the [...]

Building Our Movement We are a movement of diverse-by-design schools across the country working towards school integration and creating exemplars of excellence. By bringing more schools into our coalition, we expand our movement and help more diverse-by-design schools grow, learn from each other and improve. DCSC is proud to announce our four [...]

What is Our Story? It’s more important now than ever for us to tell our story. Kudos to Brooklyn Prospect for leading the charge recently. “You have to create a community where people of color can bring their whole selves. There isn’t one 100 percent solution. It’s more like 10, 10 percent solutions.” – Dan Rubenstein, CEO […]

Break Free from Silos Collective learning opens up possibilities for practitioners committed to education equity. Research on this format of learning compares a CoP to a group of artists discussing avant garde painting styles or engineers across departments debugging a common flaw. Rather than honing your craft in a lonely silo, [...]

As part of the Diverse Charter Schools Coalition’s UnifiED School Launch Program Fellowship, I have had the opportunity to visit schools throughout the United States. In search of an exemplar model of what it means to be a diverse and integrated community, I recently visited several  schools in Los Angeles, California. While each school was [...]

Elizabeth Warren’s education plan contains several commendable elements: increased funding for Title I schools, a focus on enforcing anti-discrimination legislation, and a commitment to school integration which she states, “helps create a society built on mutual respect and understanding.”   We know. We see it in our members everyday.  And yet [...]

DCSC is thrilled to launch participant sign up for our inaugural Communities of Practice. Communities of Practice are free, six month professional development modules for DCSC members focused on addressing needs that members voiced in our spring 2019 surveys. DCSC members will be able to select their preferences of the ten finalist proposals. [...]

DCSC would like to congratulate our members DSST Byers Middle School, Hellenic Classical Charter School, and Yu Ming Charter School for being named 2019 National Blue Ribbon Schools!   U.S. Secretary of Education Announces 2019 National Blue Ribbon Schools September 26, 2019 U.S. Department of Education   U.S. Secretary of Education [...]

Privilege is Segregation With New York City being one of the most segregated school systems in the country today, we must confront what is at the root of this segregation. Yes, it is race, and also socio-economic status. But what these two and many other identity markers do is disguise the privilege that lie underneath. Sonia serves […]

By Bruno V. Manno The racial integration or segregation of K-12 schools is again a debate topic in education circles. Today’s controversy has a new twist: casting charter schools (independently operated public schools of choice) as the main antagonist to integration, claiming they resegregate public schools. This accusation obscures how three [...]