Orders state agencies to exceed a goal of 42% in expenditures spent with small and minority-owned businesses in the state and to create a micro business designation for employers with no more than 25 employees. From the Office of the Governor
http://csgjusticecenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/The_School_Discipline_Consensus_Report.pdf
Subtitled: Strategies from the Field to Keep Students Engaged in School and Out of the Juvenile Justice System. Calls for improved methods of school discipline that keep students engaged in classrooms and less use of suspensions. Criticizes the disproportionate number of disciplined students of color, those with disabilities, and youth who identify as gay, bisexual, lesbian or transgender. From the Council of State Governments Justice Center
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2014/article/job-characteristics-among-working-parents-1.htm
Reveals that foreign-born, Hispanic, and Black working parents are significantly more likely than U.S. born, White or Asian working parents to have a low wage job without health insurance or a pension plan. From the Bureau of Labor Statistics
Uses Census Bureau and BLS data sets to measure intergenerational mobility and racial aspects of such mobility. Also tries to shed light on the factors associated with racial gaps in upward and downward mobility. From the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank
http://www.loc.gov/collections/civil-rights-history-project/about-this-collection/
Authorized by 2009 Congressional legislation, this site features oral histories of people who were participants in the struggle of African-Americans for civil rights in the 1950s and 1960s. From the Library of Congress
http://www.library.vcu.edu/about/special-collections/exhibits/freedom-now/
Introduces a series of photos from 1963 civil rights protests in Farmville, Virginia on behalf of desegregating restaurants and movie theaters. Contains link to photo display on Flickr. From Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries
Press release on outcome of first collection of data from all public schools and school districts since 2000. Reveals racial disparities in access to pre-school and to advanced courses, and in school disciplinary actions. From the U.S. Department of Education
http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/crdc-discipline-snapshot.pdf
Reports on disparities in school suspensions by race/ethnicity and gender for students as young as preschool age. Black students are suspended at a rate three times greater than white students and black students in preschool programs, though representing only 18% of enrollment, received 48% of multiple out-of-school suspensions. From the Office of Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Education