Educational Equity for All – Engaging with White People
How (and a bit of why) to include White people work in integration plans: one piece of the pie
The News from D.C. – Back to School Edition
Robin Appleberry is the parent of children in middle school and high school in Washington D.C., and co-leads Integrated Schools’ D.C. chapter. Recently, on a walk home from school, she introduced a young friend to fresh figs from a neighbor’s tree (photo). In this post, Robin shares the sobering details of what back-to-school looks and feels like this fall in Washington, D.C.
Big, Beautiful Monstrosity — And a Call to Action
The president just signed a truly monstrous piece of legislation into law. Much has been written about the impacts on health, climate and the debt, but there is a lesser known evil lurking in this bill – a national school voucher plan. It’s temping to lose hope, but there is something each of us can do.
Class Matters: lessons for integrating families from organizers working to build alliances across class
Written by Susan and Anna for Integrated Schools. We recently received a Caregiver Connection request from a White parent whose son was about to start kindergarten. The family had consciously decided not to move to a different neighborhood or district as many other...
The Problem We All STILL Live With
The problem, of course, is school segregation. And in 2024, fully seventy years after the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that separate is inherently unequal and that segregation itself is unconstitutional, it is a problem we all still live with.
Reflections on Integration, Community and Gardening
White mom, Emily Moores, reflects on the parallels between tending to a garden and tending to the relationships necessary to participate in meaningful integration and living in true community.