Advancing Equity With Policy
How to build fairer schools through smarter policy
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Jean-Pierre Jacob, M.Ed., MS, is a freelance policy writer and AP Biology Teacher.
Tag: politics
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Over the past two decades, New York has made a sustained and costly commitment to public education. Per-student school spending has risen sharply, placing the state well above the national average and ahead of nearly every peer state. Yet during the same period, student math achievement, measured by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP),…
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Background Structural Barriers to STEM Equity Concentrated poverty is a policy-constructed condition under which economically marginalized families and students are clustered into under-resourced neighborhoods. This spatial segregation correlates strongly with race and ethnicity due to discriminatory housing practices, exclusionary zoning, and disinvestment in communities of color over time. This spatial segregation is deeply racialized and…
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Executive Summary New York currently has an educational system in which access to rigorous STEM coursework is primarily determined by residential ZIP code, race, and class. This disparity in access is due to concentrated poverty and racial segregation, which have been driven by decades of exclusionary housing practices. These discriminatory public policies have resulted in…
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On January 29th, 2025, the Trump administration issued an executive order that mandated educational institutions eliminate DEI programs or risk losing federal funding. The Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling Executive Order recommended eliminating all federal funding sources that “support or subsidize the instruction, advancement, or promotion of discriminatory equity ideology”. This order prevents federal…
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American education is facing more than one crisis right now as attendance rates are slipping, literacy scores are falling, the Department of Education is shrinking, and on top of all that, arts education and extracurricular activities are vanishing from our schools. These enrichment opportunities are often dismissed as extras but they’re not. They’re experiences that…
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