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July 1, 2025 | Press Release | Isha Weerasinghe

Senate Budget Reconciliation Bill Sacrifices the Well-Being of Working Families to Give Tax Breaks to Billionaires

CLASP urges House lawmakers to reject this damaging bill and focus on policies that put workers, children, and families ahead of billionaires.

May 22, 2025 | Press Release | Wendy Chun-Hoon

House Reconciliation Bill Slashes Child and Family Supports to Fund Mass Deportation and Further Enrich the Wealthy

This bill guts health care, restricts access to food, sacrifices our higher education system, and punishes immigrant families, all to provide more tax breaks for wealthy people and corporations.

May 9, 2025 | Blog Post | Christian Collins

How the Education & Workforce Committee’s Reconciliation Bill Would Harm Students with Low Incomes

The details of this proposal make it clear that the GOP is sacrificing the future of the country for working people to fund planned tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy.

March 21, 2025 | Press Release | Cemeré James

Executive Order on Education Will Harm Children, Families, and the Economy

Closing ED will disproportionately harm students of color and children with disabilities, instill fear in immigrant students, and reverse decades of progress in enhancing civil rights protections for all students.

March 12, 2025 | Press Release | Cemeré James

Cuts to Department of Education Will Affect Millions of Students & Families

The action is particularly concerning because of the impact on marginalized and vulnerable student populations. Public school systems that rely on federal spending will face increased difficulty in continuing to educate students.

February 19, 2025 | Blog Post | Teon Hayes

Putting a Face to the Cuts: The Human Cost of the Budget Resolution

The House Budget Resolution proposes sweeping cuts that would affect the amount of groceries people can buy, the education of our children, and access to life-saving health care.

October 9, 2024 | Blog Post | Christian Collins

A Framework to Reimagine Postsecondary Education 

CLASP collaborated with the Leadership Conference Education Fund to offer 100 specific strategies that federal and state policymakers and institutional leaders can adopt to ensure postsecondary educational access for all students regardless of racial identity.  

May 16, 2024 | Blog Post | India Heckstall

Brown’s Legacy: Race-Conscious, not Colorblind, Policies Can Fix Systemic Inequities

While the Brown decision was a crucial step toward equality in education, its promise remains unfulfilled.

February 23, 2024 | Newsletter | Sivan Sherriffe

Recently From CLASP, Feb. 22, 2024: A Black History Month Reflection, 988 Implementation, Equity at USDA

  This week: A Black History Month Reflection, 988 Implementation, Equity at USDA RECENTLY FROM CLASP February 22, 2024 A Black History Month Reflection on Key Leaders in the Fight for Civil Rights As we approach the closing days of Black History Month, now is a good…

October 11, 2023 | News Clip | India Heckstall

Ed Department: Mass Loan Cancellation Is Off the Table

India Heckstall was quoted: "Pursuing higher education can negatively impact Black families’ wealth because of the debt burden."

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