Last fall, 14 students from Providence and other Rhode Island school districts filed a major lawsuit asking the U.S. District Court to confirm the constitutional right of all public school students to a civic education that prepares them adequately to…
This new report from the Center for Educational Equity offers insights into the resources and practices necessary to prepare students for civic participation in accordance with students’ constitutional rights. The pilot study on which the report is based documented major…
The lawsuit, filed on November 29, 2018, in Providence, Rhode Island, is extremely timely. The Trump presidency and the midterm election campaigns have underscored troubling trends in our national politics: an increasingly polarized electorate, lack of focus on substantive policy,…
Governor Andrew Cuomo, in a speech laying out his 2019 legislative priorities, has called the 2007 Foundation Aid formula and the Campaign for Fiscal Equity (CFE) lawsuit “ghosts of the past and distractions from the present.” That statement is incorrect.…
On May 9th, the Campaign for Educational Equity (CEE) in collaboration with the Center for Children’s Initiatives (CCI) and the Schuyler Center for Analysis and Advocacy hosted a forum with participants who are leading the charge for universal pre-K for…
As New York State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia affirmed in a statement earlier this month, “We know the achievement gap exists as a direct result of the opportunities that are available to some students but not others . . .…
In late January, I wrote an op-ed piece in the New York Daily News that took issue with the position espoused a few days earlier in an op-ed by Paul Francis, currently a Deputy Secretary to Gov. Andrew Cuomo and…
On Saturday, February 11, an outstanding team of Central Brooklyn parent leaders affiliated with the Adelaide Sanford Institute’s (ASI) Parent Leadership Institute and supported by the Campaign for Educational Equity (CEE), outlined New York students’ educational rights and presented their…
The executive budget for the next fiscal year that Governor Andrew Cuomo issued last week flouts the constitutional right of all students in New York State to the opportunity for a sound basic education. It tramples students’ rights in two…
On May 20th, the Campaign for Educational Equity contributed legal, policy, and public-engagement findings and recommendations to “Public Education Funding Inequality in an Era of Increasing Concentration of Poverty and Resegregation,” a national U.S. Commission for Civil Rights briefing in…