NAACP Threatening States That Lack School Equity Plans

By Karla Scoon Reid

Twenty-two states may face federal civil rights complaints after failing to answer the NAACP's call for comprehensive strategies targeting the achievement gap separating African-American and white students in the nation's classrooms.

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is threatening to file complaints with the U.S. Department of Education's office for civil rights against states such as Ohio, Oregon, and Pennsylvania that did not heed the organization's call, issued late last year.

John H. Jackson, the national director of education for the NAACP, said last week that he was disappointed that nearly half the states had not...