Topic: Black & Latino Students

Understanding where funding gaps persist in your state is the first step toward holding leaders accountable for shortchanging students. Use this tool to explore EdTrust’s latest analysis of school funding equity across the country

Black students have long faced some of the harshest discipline in our nation's schools. The Department of Education’s new guidance restricting consideration of race in school discipline will have dire consequences

Rather than addressing the root causes of rising college costs or strengthening financial aid, the Trump administration is abandoning students of color and students from low-income backgrounds by shifting the burden of paying for higher education onto private student loans

Despite the state’s top national ranking, about half of middle and high schoolers lack the support needed to read at grade level

Despite the state’s top national ranking, about half of middle and high schoolers lack the support needed to read at grade level

At our nation’s 250th anniversary, we must confront whitewashing and disenfranchisement and reclaim public education as a fundamental right that belongs to every student

EdTrust brief highlights how new borrowing caps harm Black, Latino, Native, and low-income students

The Trump administration is trying to control what’s taught in classrooms

The current administration is weaponizing civil rights laws to eliminate opportunities and resources for Black students