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June 22, 2010 - Open Letter to the Community, Clergy and Civil Rights Leaders - Thoughts While we were Being Handcuffed, and Processed at the Wake County Jail on June 15 after Engaging in an Act of Nonviolent Civil Disobedience, Reverend Dr. William Barber II 

4/21/2010:  The Integration Report, issue 25 - An Inconvenient Truth: Race Matters in School Improvement
"To be sure, students of color do not typically have access to the same level of teacher expertise or the same quality of learning environments experienced by most successful students. If this 'opportunity gap' did not exist, the achievement gap would be much smaller than it is." http://theintegrationreport.wordpress.com/2010/04/21/issue-25/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheIntegrationReport-TheCivilRightsProjectAtUcla+%28The+Integration+Report+-+The+Civil+Rights+Project+at+UCLA%29&utm_content=Yahoo%21+Mail

4/11/2010: Suffer The Children. The War On Public Education. One School District's Story http://americancommentary.wordpress.com/2010/04/11/suffer-the-children-the-war-on-public-education-one-school-districts-story/

4/9/2010: Why great teachers matter to low-income students

4/7/2010: The Impact of School Integration on College Attendance and Poverty Reduction

3/7/2010 Sermon Presented by Rev. Tom Rhodes Read Here

3/4/2010 Wake Dropout Rates Decline- Many attribute to PLT work Read Here

2/2010:  North Carolina High School Resource Allocation Study.  An examination of the use of four resources--total per pupil expenditure, per pupil expenditure for regular instruction, supplemental instruction, special instruction, student services, and eight other specific functions; teacher quality; and principal leadership--and their impact on student learning. http://publicpolicy.unc.edu/files/HSRA%20Final%20v10.pdf

2/5-6/2010: Grutter Without Brown: Can Our Colleges and Universities Realize Their Missions in an Era of Increasing Racial and Economic Isolation at K-12?
"Yet even as the future of integrated schooling in America has been called into question, our colleges and universities have spoken with a clear and united voice about the value of a diverse educational environment." http://www.law.unc.edu/documents/cle/festival/03-5.pdf

2/5/2010:  EXCELLENT OVERVIEW : A historic view of public schooling in America was the topic of a speech given ath the 20th Festival of Legal Learning (sponsored by the University of North Carolina School of Law) by Dean Jack Boger of the UNC School of Law. You can read it by clicking here.

Superintendent's Journal: Del Burns speaks on "Funding Our Schools in 2010-11"
February 5, 2010 - In this week's journal, Dr. Burns provides an update on the revenues available to the school system from state and local sources in the next school year. Dr. Burns also discusses some of the strategies that will be used to respond, including budget cuts in Central Services. http://www.wcpss.net/announcements/archives/2010/02/superintendents_23.html

1/22/2009: Socioeconomic and Racial School Integration, Richard D. Kahlenberg, 1/22/2009
View a PDF of the PowerPoint presentation from Richard D. Kahlenberg's speech on a conference: "Passing the Torch: The Past, Present and Future of Inter-district School Desegregation” Charles Hamilton Houston Institute, Harvard Law School, January 17, 2009 http://www.equaleducation.org/publications.asp?pubid=677

1-17-2010 - Wake Education Partnership, a nonprofit based in Raleigh, released an analysis of the Board's recent decision on Year Round schools.  The group also has another issue of their newsletter In Context.

1/14/10 - The Integration Report, issue 23, The Racial Achievement Gap in the 21st Century
You can also subscribe to The Integration Report, a monthly update on the status of integration in our nation's schools sent via e-mail.

12/23/09 - The Integration Report, issue 22
Reaffirming the Role of School Integration in K-12 Education Policy: A Conversation Among Policymakers, Advocates and Educators

5/09 - Wake Ed Partnership: Suspending Disbelief "We know what a world-class school system would look like in Wake County"

5/20/09 - The Integration Report, issue 19
Synopsis of Conference "Looking to the Future: Legal and Policy Options for Racially Integrated Education in the South and the Nation"
UCLA - The Civil Rights Project