Projects

The Minnesota Statewide Racial Profiling Study The Minnesota Statewide Racial Profiling Study Sixty-five Minnesota law enforcement departments participated in the Racial Profiling Study undertaken by the Minnesota Legislature pursuant to Minnesota Statute Â§ 626.951. The Council on Crime and Justice and the Institute on Race and Poverty jointly analyzed the data and summarized a statewide aggregate report, and 65 individual jurisdiction reports. The …
Failed Promises: Assessing Charter Schools in the Twin Citites After two decades of experience, most charter schools in the Twin Cities still underperform comparable traditional public schools and intensify racial and economic segregation in the Twin Cities schools. This is the conclusion of a new report issued today by the Institute on Race and Poverty at the University of Minnesota Law School. Entitled …
The Choice is Ours: Expanding Educational Opportunity for all Twin Cities Children. A new report being released today (Monday, May 15) by the Institute on Race & Poverty (IRP) at the University of Minnesota reveals the disturbing extent of school segregation in the Twin Cities region. However, the authors of the report envision a brighter …
Communities in Crisis: Race and Mortgage Lending in the Twin Cities. “Homeownership has been the first step to building stability and wealth for Americans,” explains Myron Orfield, Executive Director of the Institute on Race & Poverty. “Research shows that during the peak years for subprime lending, people of color and the neighborhoods where they live were at a clear disadvantage in lending markets. This crisis has cost another generation of people of color the equal opportunity to join …