Joseph Scully, former board member and longtime champion of the Oak Park Regional Housing Center, passed away on Oct. 15. During his time as an executive with St. Paul Federal Savings Bank, "St. Paul was the first financial institution to support our center in the early 1970s, and that's...
By Mayra Quinonez, Oak Park Regional Housing Center Summer Intern
Residential and educational segregation are closely related. Nowadays, residential areas in the United States are highly segregated by race; thus public schools also tend to be segregated. Meanwhile, considerable evidence...
Reflections on My Summer with the Oak Park Regional Housing Center
By Anna Forte, OPRHC Summer Intern
I am a student at Vanderbilt University, a school where many of my peers have had internships...
A variety of approaches have been undertaken to reduce the achievement gap in our nation’s underperforming schools. Few would argue that we have made significant strides, as the black-white achievement gap remains largely unaffected. Improving integration in schools has proven to help in this...
“Racism isn’t a problem here.”
“Talking about race only causes divisiveness.”
“We have a black president—doesn’t that mean racism is in the...
