Integrated Schools prepares families with racial or economic privilege to commit to integrating our children, driving new narratives about education, and advocating for justice in our public schools.
Our Focus
Contemplate
Raising consciousness of the problem of segregation and the promise of integration, we also make direct connections between the structural factors at work and the ways in which our individual choices work to support or challenge them.
Desegregate
Desegregation is about stepping in… enrolling our kids in an integrating school, where they may be the only or one-of-a-few White &/or privileged students. We aren’t solving segregation, but desegregating our children is the first step.
Integrate
Meaningful integration is about stepping up. It demands respecting the needs and dreams of ALL students, families, & staff in a school. Integration is built on good intentions AND the understanding that impact matters more than intent.
Advocate
With literal ‘skin in the game,’ parents committed to meaningful integration are well-positioned to fight for equity. Integrated Schools is creating a grassroots constituency for social shifts and courageous policy.
About us
America’s schools are arguably more segregated than before the Civil Rights Movement…
Because school segregation is as much a story of failed public policy as it is of White &/or privileged families thwarting it, we believe that a cultural shift toward not only valuing but prioritizing integration is long overdue. We call in White &/or privileged families to consider the how the choices we make for our kids’ schools’ affects all kids in our communities.
Integrated Schools (est. 2015) supports meaningfully integrated classrooms that reflect the diversity of our districts. We champion school communities that respect ALL families and are galvanized around supporting ALL children. Through national organizing to promote local action, we support, educate, develop and mobilize families to “live our values,” disrupt segregation, and leverage our choices for the well-being and futures of our own children, of all children, and of our democracy.