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The Obama Administration’s stance toward racial and socioeconomic integration in schools was the most progressive of any presidency in the past three decades. President Obama’s Department of Education issued a litany of agency guidance documents focused on diversity and equity in schools, inserted diversity and integration priorities within existing grant programs, administered numerous grant programs prioritizing support for locally led school diversity efforts, held an equity-focused stance on the implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), held numerous convenings in support of local and state diversity efforts, and led an interagency effort to further diversity initiatives across agencies. Meanwhile, the Trump Department of Education, led by Secretary Betsy DeVos, seemingly worked to reverse as many Obama-era policy decisions as possible, as quickly as possible. Thus, the beginning of the Biden presidency provides an opportune moment to examine the enduring legacy of President Obama’s education policy.
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The Politics of Achievement Gaps: U.S. Public Opinion on Race-Based and Wealth-Based Differences in Test Scores, Jon Valant and Daniel A. Newark
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In Grutter v. Bollinger the Court held that “the Equal Protection Clause does not prohibit the … narrowly tailored use of race in admissions decisions to further a compelling interest in obtaining the educational benefits that flow from a diverse student body.” https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/02-241.ZO.html.
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Full text of letter is available at https://www2.ed.gov/documents/press-releases/06032016-dear-colleagues-letter.pdf.
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81 Fed. Reg 23,463, 23,471 (April 21, 2016), available at https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2016-04-21/pdf/2016-09298.pdf.
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See Patrick Wall, “City took steps to boost academic diversity in 2015, new report shows,” Chalkbeat New York (December 2015), available at http://ny.chalkbeat.org/2015/12/31/city-took-steps-to-boost-academic-diversity-in-2015-new-report-shows/.
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The Department of Education clearly supports socioeconomic integration as a strategy for school turnaround, and in March 2016 solicited public input regarding how SIG funds could be used to support voluntary, community-driven socioeconomic integration efforts. See U.S. Department of Education, “Socioeconomic Diversity as a School Turnaround Strategy,” available at http://blog.ed.gov/2016/03/socioeconomic-diversity-as-a-school-turnaround-strategy/.
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Full text of the middle school admissions plan is available at http://d15diversityplan.com/.
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Full text of the report is available at https://www.schooldiversity.nyc/.
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Hilton, M., Clay House, T. (2022). On Integrating Public Schools Under Obama and Trump. In: Ivery, C.L., Bassett, J.A. (eds) Detroit and the New Political Economy of Integration in Public Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99796-0_8
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