A group led by Obama administration alumni and backed by major liberal foundations is advocating for policy changes to ensure increased diversity in public schools.
The Southern Education Foundation in July launched Brown’s Promise, an organization focused on pursuing litigation and research aimed at making public schools more racially diverse, according to the organization’s website. Two individuals who worked in the Obama administration’s Education Department are leading the initiative, and the Southern Education Foundation has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from left-wing charities like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, New Venture Fund, the Tides Foundation and the Ford Foundation in recent years.
The New Jersey suit seeks to allow students from urban school districts to transfer to suburban schools, while the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled that plaintiffs in the state’s lawsuit must demonstrate that “racial imbalances” contribute to “inadequate education,” according to WSJ.
Nekima Levy Armstrong, former head of the Minneapolis NAACP and the lawyer representing charter schools that may be impacted by the Minnesota lawsuit, was concerned that the schools may be subjected to racial quota systems, WSJ reported.
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