There are places where “touring schools” is just “good parenting”, and yet that is not a universal experience. One mom shares her experience of living in a community where “touring” to determine a school’s quality is not the norm, and how she is navigating making equitable educational decisions with her family.
There is no Integrated Schools “formula” for choosing and enrolling our children in a new school, and what is important might take a different shape for families depending on their particular racial makeup. To illustrate that, Katherine, a mom in Los Angeles, shares her family’s kindergarten enrollment story.
My last post was about the exchange between Kamala Harris and Joe Biden at the first round of Democratic primary debates earlier this summer. It’s amazing to me that this already feels so distant. Before getting to the main topic for the posts this week, here’s a quick summary of some of the major things that have happened in the last month or so.
Last week marked the 46th anniversary of the decision in the Milliken v.Bradley Supreme Court Case. While most folks are familiar with Brown v. Board, Milliken is often overlooked despite playing a pivotal role in halting our country’s move towards desegregation. If...
We are so excited to release the first edition of the Integrated Schools Awkward Conversations Guide!! This guide was originally created by our late founder, Courtney Everts Mykytyn, and we are so grateful for the opportunity to bring her work into the world,...
Part 1 of the roundup, published yesterday, looked at recent school integration debates in Austin, TX and Wake County, NC. This post summarizes similar activity in Sausalito, Oakland, nearby Baltimore, Charleston, SC and Richmond, VA. As I note in the first post,...
