The Equity Reporting Project: Restoring the Promise of Education is a groundbreaking initiative
to stimulate in-depth reporting on the “opportunity gap.” This growing disparity in access to educational resources and opportunities has resulted in an unequal education system that unfairly shortchanges
the futures of millions of low-income, minority and immigrant children.
Scant attention has been paid to this troubling divide. And even less to its complex root causes: poverty,
the ever-widening wealth gap, housing and school segregation, or the vanishing middle class, to name a few.
Renaissance Journalism’s ambitious project shines a spotlight on the systemic roots and profound impact of
educational inequity, sparking public awareness and support for workable solutions
to one of our nation’s most pressing problems.
This project was funded by grants from the Ford Foundation.