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Summer 2008 - School Success in Motion: Protective Factors for Academic Achievement in Homeless and Highly Mobile Children in Minneapolis - Collaborative research project of Minneapolis Public Schools, University of Minnesota, People Serving People, and Mary’s Place, CURA Reporter.
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January, 2008 - Minneapolis Public Schools Institutional Ethnography: Research Findings - Recommendations on disciplinary referral policies and practices; zero tolerance policies result in “school to jailhouse track," Council on Crime and Justice.
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Note: In Saint Paul, the dollars follow the students whereas in Minneapolis and other urban districts the dollars follow the teachers.  The following research reports demonstrate how funding policies can create disparities.

Summer 2008 - When School Funds Follow Teachers, Not Students - The funding distribution system used in Minneapolis and most other public school districts allows for significant spending disparity on teacher salaries between schools resulting in relatively low spending on teacher salaries at schools that serve a high proportion of disadvantaged learners, CURA Reporter.

October 2007 - Minneapolis Public Schools Spending and Population Relationships - In 2004-05, across 53 MPS schools, there was significant disparity in per pupil spending of General Fund dollars on teacher salaries. Lower spending was correlated with higher representation of disadvantaged student groups and vice versa, Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) parent group.

“When I first heard about the [Minneapolis Public Schools Spending and Population Relationships] report, I thought it was pretty esoteric. But when I read it, I realized: ‘this is institutional racism 101.’”

—William English, Coalition of Black Churches/
African American Leadership Summit, comments made to the Minneapolis Board of Education, December 4, 2007; quoted in When School Funds Follow Teachers, Not Students, CURA Reporter Summer 2008 (above).

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Summer 2008 - When Troubled Youth Can’t Stay at Home: An Analysis of Out-of-Home Placements in Hennepin County - An investigation of racial disparities in out-of-home youth placement in Hennepin County; compares placements through human services and juvenile corrections, CURA Reporter.
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Posted July 14, 2008

May 2008 - 2008 County Housing Profiles - The unmet affordable housing need through the year 2010 in Minnesota is conservatively estimated at 333,000 low-income households. Meanwhile, the number of households in the state spending more than half of their income on housing increased from 1 in 15 in 2000 to 1 in 8 in 2006. Minnesota experienced the fastest increase of extremely cost burdened households of any state in the nation during this time period, Minnesota Housing Partnership (Ramsey County).
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May 2008 - Selecting Population Level Youth Indicators (Power Point) - Utilizes the developmental assets to facilitate a discussion at a Kentucky Youth Development Coordinating Council retreat focused on selecting population-level youth indicators that the state will collectively track and work on improving, Forum for Youth Investment.
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January 2007 - Gaps in Racial Equity and Strategies for Reducing Them - An illustrative (not exhaustive) inventory of areas where data consistently show such gaps or disparities in the performance of society’s various systems and markets, yielding very different results not only for different income groups, but also for different racial and ethnic groups. Reducing gaps means bringing those group averages in line, by fixing or adjusting the way those systems work. Society can’t expect our systems and markets to produce identical opportunities or outcomes for everyone individually. But we can expect them not to produce different outcomes for different racial and cultural groups, Effective Communities, LLC. Published in Pathways to Progress Resources for Focusing Philanthropy on Social Justice and Racial Equity.
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