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Equity in Education

All students deserve access to equal educational opportunities. However, girls of color face interconnected, structural barriers that threaten their success in school and beyond.

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Why I’m Scared of Project 2025’s Attacks on Education As A Civil Rights Attorney – And Parent

Silenced Voices: NWLC Report Finds Right-Wing Attacks Are Censoring Teachers, Stifling Learning

The Peril of Book Bans: Targeting Women and People of Color

Disability Reproductive Equity Day

Disabled Students Deserve Sex Ed Too

Fighting Against Book Bans and Censorship in Schools

NWLC Files Two Complaints Against Book Censorship in Public Schools

Keep Her Safe: Centering Black Girls in School Safety

National Women’s Law Center Litigation Highlights – 2023

NWLC and GLSEN Submit Comment on FAFSA Demographic Survey Measuring Gender Identity

NWLC Reacts to Supreme Court Overturning Affirmative Action

Coalition Letter to President Biden on Title IX Delay

Our Love Letter to Queer Students and Educators

The SAFER Act: Students’ Access to Freedom & Educational Rights

femme students in a science test

We Don’t Have the Full Story: Black Girls with Disabilities Deserve Accurate Representation in the Education Civil Rights Data Collection

NWLC Joins Amicus Brief Supporting Testing Accommodations for Aspiring Lawyers with Disabilities

NWLC Submits Comment on FAFSA Demographic Survey

Empty desks in a classroom, one desk has a notebook and pencil

NWLC Files Ninth Circuit Amicus Brief Supporting School Policies that Protect Students from Discrimination

NWLC Comments Regarding Department of Education Data Collection

NWLC Files Amicus Brief Challenging Race-Based Discipline and Harassment: K.R. v. Duluth Public Schools Academy d/b/a/ Duluth Edison Charter Schools

Women Driving Change: A Pathway to a Better Mississippi

Let Her Learn: A Toolkit to Stop School Push Out for Girls of Color

Patsy Mink Fought to Break Down Barriers to Education for Women and Girls, and We Must Continue the Fight

Five Reasons Why American Schools Are Still Separate and Unequal, 64 Years After Brown v. Board