by Press | Mar 7, 2014 | Blog, Letters from the Executive Director
ABA Human Rights Magazine, Vol. 40, Issue No. 1 By Jon M. Greenbaum, Chief Counsel and Senior Deputy Director At his inauguration as Alabama’s governor in January 1963, George Wallace infamously and defiantly declared in a speech written by a former Ku Klux Klan...
by Press | Feb 19, 2014 | Blog
M.D. is a mother who lives in public housing with her teenage son who is intellectually disabled. M.D. resides in a city praised for its expansion of school choice to assist low-income families. But what are her choices? Send her son to their neighborhood school...
by Press | Jan 8, 2014 | Blog, Letters from the Executive Director
http://politix.topix.com/homepage/9645-immigration-reform-the-next-frontier-in-the-war-on-poverty Fifty years ago, as President Lyndon Johnson faced the task of leading our nation out of the trauma of a presidential assassination, he delivered his first State of the...
by Press | Sep 4, 2013 | Blog
School vouchers are becoming increasingly common in the United States. Earlier this year, North Carolina joined the growing list of states that provide tax dollars to students who want to attend private or parochial schools. In June, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker...
by Press | Aug 7, 2013 | Blog
My English class with Mr. H in high school was special. Not only was it taught by someone whose physical appearance stood out from the other teachers (Mr. H was a Scottish man in his early thirties with a shiny stud in his ear and a long braid down his back) but it...
by Press | Jul 29, 2013 | Blog, Letters from the Executive Director
It has been almost two weeks since a jury of six women found George Zimmerman not guilty of second-degree murder and manslaughter. It has been over a year since Trayvon Martin, a then 17-year-old boy, was tragically shot and killed as he walked from a Florida...
