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Briefing Reports

Briefing Report Cover Contemporary Civil Rights Challenges: A View from the States - 2018 Survey of the State Advisory Committees

This report details the Commission’s survey of SAC members, capturing data on which civil rights issues SAC members believe should be prioritized.
Briefing Report Cover Higher Education Access, Persistence, and Completion for Students of Color

The Commission examined the extent to which financial aid funding and awards under the Higher Education Act of 1964 and the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008 affect enrollment rates of students of color in colleges and universities awarding bachelors’ degrees.
Briefing Report Cover Public Education Funding Inequity in an Era of Increasing Concentration of Poverty and Resegregation

This report addresses pervasive disparities in funding for public education, and offers actionable recommendations with a goal of improving educational opportunity and student achievement across all segments of our nation’s student population.
Briefing Report Cover Working for Inclusion: Time for Congress to Enact Federal Legislation to Address Workplace Discrimination against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Americans

This report examines the main social and economic arguments made for and against enacting federal legislation to provide federal nondiscrimination workplace protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) employees.
Report Cover for Statutory Enforcement 2017 Targeted Fines and Fees Against Communities of Color

This report examines the reality and real harm of cities imposing fines and fees on residents to raise city funds rather than to secure legal compliance and increase public safety and DOJ’s enforcement efforts to encourage constitutional practices and hold jurisdictions accountable for constitutional violations.