The Civil Rights Project/ El Proyecto de CRP, originally named The Civil Rights Project, is a

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and

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focused on issues of racial justice. In January 2007, The Civil Rights Project moved from

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to the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at

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Mission

Its mission is to help renew the civil rights movement by: * Bridging the worlds of ideas and action * Becoming a preeminent source of

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and * Becoming a forum for building consensus within that movement.

Founders

It was founded by Christopher Edley, Jr. (formerly of

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, now Dean of Boalt Hall Law School at

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) and Gary Orfield (formerly of

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, now Professor of Education at UCLA's Graduate School of Education and Information Studies) in 1996 to provide needed intellectual capital to academics, policy makers and civil rights advocates.

School segregation studies

The Project has published a series of monographs on school segregation in various states. These studies are frequently cited in national publications with comparative statistics by state. The Project uses a key metric: "percentage of black students in majority black schools." Any percentage above zero indicates a concentration of blacks in a relatively small number of schools. A corollary measure is "percentage of black students in majority white schools." The Project defines ''intensely segregated'' as schools that have less than ten percent white enrollment.

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