{"id":72596,"date":"2024-08-26T14:36:46","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T18:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=72596"},"modified":"2024-08-26T14:36:46","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T18:36:46","slug":"raul-fernandez","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/profile\/raul-fernandez\/","title":{"rendered":"Raul Fernandez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Dr. Raul Fernandez is a Senior Lecturer in Educational Leadership &amp; Policy Studies, where he studies, writes, and teaches about inequities in education, and Executive Director of Brookline for Racial Justice &amp; Equity, where he rallies his neighbors in the relentless pursuit of racial and economic justice. He has been named a Public Impact Scholar by the Initiative on Cities and a Massachusetts Education Policy Fellow by the Rennie Center for Education Research &amp; Policy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>While Chair of DESE\u2019s Racial Imbalance Advisory Council, he co-authored Racial Segregation in Massachusetts Schools, the first report in a generation to evidence the substantial and pervasive disparities between segregated white and nonwhite schools in Massachusetts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Raul also served as a member of Brookline Select Board \u2013 the first Latinx person elected to that position. During his time there he created a working group to support public housing residents, a Racial Equity Advancement Fund, and a task force to reimagine public safety.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Raul\u2019s recent academic pursuits have focused on how policymaking through the courts, state legislatures, and the federal government impact education policy and practice. He recently launched a new graduate-level course on School Segregation, which is also being taught to BPS principals and central office staff as part of the BPS Dr. Carol Johnson District Leadership Fellowship.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23087,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/72596"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/72596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72598,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/72596\/revisions\/72598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}