The centers provide technical assistance and training to public school districts and other responsible governmental agencies that promote equitable education opportunities
As if to justify the rising inequality and lack
of equitable education opportunities emerging from the now balkanized public school systems in some of our largest districts — places like Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. — the Thomas B. Fordham Institute (a Walton grantee), has begun offering a blunt assessment about the direction of market - based education reform, suggesting that perhaps equity is not a necessary goal for our public schools.
Through 2016, the centers provide technical assistance and training in the areas of race, sex and national origin to public school districts to
promote equitable education opportunities, civil rights and school reform.
The 2009 ASCD Legislative Agenda calls on national leaders to ensure that all students are taught by highly effective teachers, have
equitable education opportunities, receive innovative and research - based instruction, and are evaluated on the basis of comprehensive measures of performance and school success.