Check out this factsheet on federal COVID funding for education.
Check out this nutshell to learn more about voter registration deadlines, vote-by-mail options, and how to vote in-person.
Advancement Project National Office and the Alliance for Educational Justice (AEJ) submitted public comments to the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) in response to a Request for Information about what the U.S. Department of Education and Department of Justice should do to address school discipline and whether they should potentially bring […]
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court further weakened the Voting Rights Act in its ruling in Brnovich v. DNC, a case challenging voting laws in Arizona that discard provisional ballots cast in the wrong precinct and limit who can return absentee ballots. In a 6-3 decision, the Court ruled that Arizona's voting laws do not violate Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, and its ban on ballot harvesting was not enacted with a racially discriminatory purpose. Advancement Project National Office, a 21st century racial justice organization release the following statement.
The signing of Act 127 – H.B. 378 means Louisianans will not lose their voting rights unnecessarily simply because they are on probation.
For Immediate Release: June 22, 2021 Contact: Jeralyn Cave, jcave@advancementproject.org WASHINGTON — In light of the Senate blocking S. 1, the For the People Act, Advancement Project’s national office, a multiracial civil rights organization, released the following statement: “It is indisputable that Republican leaders would rather fuel their rhetoric of white grievance and villainize people […]
Bicameral bill would shift federal resources away from school police and incentivize investment in evidence-based supports for students
Advancement Project National Office and Alliance for Educational Justice joined more than 400 allied individuals and organizations in calling on Congress to heed the call of youth advocates, adopt the Counseling Not Criminalization in Schools Act, and help advance the movement for Police Free Schools.