Segregation academies that remain vastly white continue to play an integral role in perpetuating school segregation — and, as a result, racial separation in the surrounding communities. We found these ...

The recently passed 131-page Omnibus bill contained additional money to help victims of Hurricane Helene, but that was only a small portion of the bill. It contained dramatic changes to state ...

Historian Nell Painter remarked in 2011, “Being white these days isn’t what it used to be.” For the past decade, wave upon wave of protests against police violence and mass incarceration have drawn ...

Gov. Kristi Noem presents her annual budget address to lawmakers in the South Dakota State Capitol on Dec. 3, 2024, while Lt. Gov. Larry Rhoden looks on. (Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight) To ...

ProPublica is very concerned. It has found something that is, as the cool kids say, problematic. Another way of describing this is that any old argument is being used to oppose school vouchers, ...

Matthew Ladner is a senior adviser for education policy implementation in The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Education Policy. ProPublica recently published “Segregation Academies Across the South ...

He took his seat opposite mine on the aisle. Due to plane noise on the small jet and a chatty neighbor next to him, I didn’t ...

Segregated schools in North Carolina have received millions in taxpayer-funded tuition payments. Together, charter schools and private school tuition voucher programs have contributed to resegregating ...

"Public education is the cornerstone of our community and our democracy," wrote Horace Mann, known as the father of American public education. As secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education in ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In the early 1970s, the balkanization of the US labor market into “men’s occupations” and “women’s occupations” began to unravel, as women ...

This story was originally published by ProPublica. Private schools across the South that were established for white children during desegregation are now benefiting from tens of millions in taxpayer ...