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Podcast Playlist – Housing, Real Estate, and Segregation

Podcast Playlist – Housing, Real Estate, and Segregation

This playlist examines how real estate, zoning, and housing policies create, interact, and connect to segregation. For example, episodes in this playlist look at the historical legacy of redlining and how redlining still affects segregation today. Episodes also discuss gentrification from a first-hand experience and perspective, and episodes examine the complicated racial history and politics of The Suburbs.

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Podcast Playlist – Our Schools: A Comprehensive Perspective

Podcast Playlist – Our Schools: A Comprehensive Perspective

This playlist looks at integration and segregation from every aspect of the school experience. From school lunch, to pre-k, to PTA, and more. These episodes help us see the wider, insidious impact of segregation, and they help us see what we can do to bring about meaningful integration in every aspect of the school experience.

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People Like You Do Things Like This

People Like You Do Things Like This

When she and her husband decided to send their eldest daughter to the Title 1 school in their predominantly Spanish-speaking immigrant neighborhood of north Sunnyvale, Allison Joe never imagined she might one day run for school board. In this piece, she reflects on how Integrated Schools has guided her along the way, helping her “to articulate and lean into what I already knew was the right thing to do and way to be in our community.”

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Integration, Integrity, and Equity: A Framework for Advocacy

Integration, Integrity, and Equity: A Framework for Advocacy

For many years, Integrated Schools has galvanized around the idea of “building a constituency for brave policy.” But how do we decide what to advocate for? How do we know where to look for answers? In this post, we are sharing a framework for advocacy as well as introducing a new partner in this work who is helping us frame these conversations as we continue to grow our movement.

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Network Announcement!!!

Network Announcement!!!

We are announcing the creation of the Integrated Schools Network. In truth, it’s not as much a new creation as much as a formalization of what has already existed–we are a network of folks who are working to align our antiracist values with our actions and behaviors. Our vision for our network is that it is composed of people who have chosen to affiliate themselves with, and publicly identify themselves as a part of, Integrated Schools. That includes people who have already done this, and new folks we have yet to meet!

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Our journey through the 7th grade lottery: What we heard, what we did, how we decided

Our journey through the 7th grade lottery: What we heard, what we did, how we decided

To be a parent in Boston is to be constantly bombarded with messages about the precariousness of our public schools.” As his oldest child nears the end of an integrated inclusion elementary school,” one White dad reflects on the social expectations for White, middle-class families facing the 7th grade lottery and the fact that “selective schools are distinguished by which students aren’t there as much as they are by the opportunities offered.”

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