Talk Priority Schools

By Kevin Hart

If politically popular education “reforms” are so effective, why are they only being implemented in lower-income communities – predominantly communities of color?

That was the question that ran through a framework for improving education released by leading civil rights groups this week. Titled Civil Rights Framework for Providing All Students an Opportunity to Learn through Reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the framework was drafted and signed by seven leading civil rights groups, including the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the National Urban League and the Rainbow PUSH Coalition.

“For far too long, communities of color have been testing grounds for unproven methods of educational change,” the report says, arguing that reforms advocated by federal and state governments should have to meet an evidence threshold before being foisted upon schools.

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