Case Study
Education for Incarcerated Students
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, D.C. Public Schools stopped providing education to students at the DC Jail, and instead students received inaccessible, inadequate, and inconsistently delivered work packets that they had to complete without instruction or assistance.
Case Study
Fighting Hostile School Environments
For decades, students in Hanover County, VA were forced to attend middle and high schools that glorified the names and values of the Confederacy. Black students in particular endured a hostile school environment that derived directly from the naming of the schools after Confederate generals and their defense of slavery. The Washington Lawyers’ Committee represented the Hanover County NAACP in litigation to change the school names…
Public School Partnership Program
Not only have public schools in urban communities have been historically segregated by race and income, but schools are also segregated by resources. The opportunity and resource gap amongst affluent and low-income students is monumental. The School Partnerships is an effort to fix an often unspoken injustice in public education. Read More.