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URBAN EDUCATION REFORM AS A MAJOR CIVIL RIGHTS ISSUE The Superintendent as Lead Education Ambassador and Children’s Rights Activist

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“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Racial Justice Social Justice Criminal Justice Juvenile Justice Economic Justice Employment Justice Housing Justice Transportation Justice Equity Justice Equality Justice Curriculum Justice Instructional Justice Grading Justice Literacy Justice Assignment Justice Scheduling Justice

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Gender Justice Expectation Justice Policy Justice Content Rigor Justice Disproportionality Justice Testing Justice Food Justice Wellness Justice Funding Justice Narrative Justice Environmental Justice Mental Health Justice Safety Justice Violence Justice

We must work TOGETHER to break the chains of injustice.

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The Pervasiveness of Discrimination

Receiving a promotion

Obtaining bank loans

Getting a job

Buying a home Hailing a taxi Getting insurance

Renting an

apartment Arrested for drug–related crimes

Quality of medical care

Purchasing

a car Pulled over by police Suspended from preschool Cost of bail

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Racial Differences in Residential Environment

In the 171 largest cities in the U.S., there is not even one city where whites live in equal conditions to those of blacks “The worst urban context in which whites reside is considerably better than the average context of black communities.”

Sampson & Wilson 1995

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Residential Segregation and SES

A study of the effects of segregation on young African American adults found that the elimination of segregation would erase black-white differences in:

• Earnings
• High School Graduation Rate
• Unemployment

And reduce racial differences in single motherhood by two-thirds

Cutler, Glaeser & Vigdor, 1997

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Racism as a System

Health Care Sys Credit Markets Housing Market

Adapted from Reskin, Ann Rev Sociology, 2012

Residential Segregation School Segregation

Arrows reflect emergence of racism and the effects of subsystems (white arrows)

Labor Market & Income Education Criminal Justice System

Racism

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Conclusions

• Racism, in its multiple forms, is alive and well

today

• Its most powerful effects are through policies and

procedures that are embedded in social institutions

• We need to acknowledge and understand the

current manifestations of racism

• We need re-doubled efforts to mitigate its

pathogenic effects

• We need to create the political will and support to

dismantle societal structures that support racism, ethno-centrism, anti-immigrant sentiments and incivility

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True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it understands that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.

• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.