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Publications and Resources

Barriers to Entry and Advancement by Minority Firefighters, presented at the 2013 International Association of Black Professional Firefighters Convention.

 

Best Practice Standards: The Proper Use of Criminal Records in Hiring, a report by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Legal Action Center’s National H.I.R.E. Network, National Workrights Institute, and several consultants from the background screening industry.

 

Access Campaign, a Lawyers’ Committee campaign designed to examine and dismantle barriers to gainful employment for persons with arrest and conviction records and negative credit histories.

 

Hmong Right to Know Campaign, a Lawyers’ Committee campaign that aims to increase awareness of employment rights and the resources available to address workplace discrimination.

 

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Publications and Resources

Letter to Senate Committe Help, Education, Labor and Pensions in support of Reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

 

Lawyers’ Committee Written Testimony for Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Human Rights Hearing on “Ending the School-to-Prison Pipeline”

 

Framework for Providing All Students an Opportunity to Learn through Reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)

 

Sustaining Public School Diversity; an Innovative Strategy from Jefferson County, Kentucky

 

PEW Center on the States’ Engaged Families, Effective Pre-K: State Policies that Bolster Student Success, June 2010

 

Parental Empowerment Handbook

 

Connecticut v. Spellings 2nd Circuit Brief

 

Pontiac v. Spellings 6th Circuit Brief

 

Racial Disparities in Educational Opportunities in the United States. Seattle Journal for Social Justice; Volume 6 (Spring/Summer 2008): Issue 2. pp. 591-647

 

Seattle Decision Brochure

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