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Professor Orfield was cited in a recent Star Tribune article "A course in marketing," about the St. Paul public school district competing for students against private, charter, and public schools…
Associate Professor and Executive Director of the Institute on Race & Poverty, Myron Orfield was recently quoted in the Minneapolis Star Tribune on the pattern of school resegregation in the state of…
Professor Myron Orfield, executive director of the Institute on Race and Poverty, and Nicholas Wallace, published "Expanding Educational Opportunity Through School and Housing Choice" in the recent summer edition of…
Some residents of Northgate Forest, an upscale subdivision in Texas, are trying to take advantage of a little-known provision in state law to get out of the increasingly diverse Spring school district and join the…
Professor Myron Orfield, Executive Director of the Institute on Race & Poverty, will lead a “community forum” focusing on regional…

In a Sunday StarTribune opinion piece, Professor Myron Orfield and Research Fellow Will Stancil write that violent crime is one of the many harms of racial and economic segregation and argue that a police-only…

Professor Myron Orfield, Earl. R. Larson Professor of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Law and Director, Institute of Metropolitan Opportunity, wrote an op-ed in the Star Tribune about how a local church leader’s testimony…