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The Brown Power Base Project seeks to build a broad grassroots network of African-American, Latino and other brown parents and students to address segregation and other structural forms of exclusion in K-12 education in Minnesota.
The ultimate goal of this network or "Brown Power Base" will be to examine issues of racial segregation and exclusion in Minnesota schools and identify means to eradicate it, be it through legislative, legal or other means.
Project Partners:
African American Family Services
Centro Campesino
Hispanic Advocacy and Community Empowerment through Research (HACER)
Housing Preservation Project
Institute on Race and Poverty
Minneapolis Urban League
This major collaborative effort is funded by the Minnesota Dream Fund.
Housing Preservation Project's Role in this project:
- Trying to move the current system for determining who occupies
subsidized housing in suburbs toward greater occupancy by Minneapolis
families of color who either want to or are sending their kids to
suburban schools;
- Altering admissions standards for newly constructed suburban,
subsidized housing to give priority to families making pro-integrative
moves; and
- In Southern Minnesota communities, determining if housing
patterns contribute to segregated schools and if communities desire
greater integrated housing opportunities.
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