The Dudley Flood Center for Educational Equity and Opportunity (Flood Center) will serve as a hub to identify and connect organizations, networks, and leaders to address issues of equity, access, and opportunity in education across North Carolina. The Flood Center is born out of the findings and recommendations of the Forum’s Study Group XVI: Expanding Educational Opportunity (2016), co-chaired by Dr. Flood, as well as the Forum’s Color of Education partnership, which aims to achieve racial equity in education across North Carolina through building connections and engagement across fields of research, policy and practice. The Flood Center aims to continue this work by informing discussions on policies impacting equity & social justice, supporting and advancing equity-focused educator programming, and promote discussions around how schools are funded at the local and state levels, in hopes of achieving equity, access, and opportunity for all young people in North Carolina.
About Dr. Dudley Flood
Dr. Dudley Flood is an educator and champion of school integration in North Carolina. In the years following the Brown v. Board of Education decision that mandated school desegregation in the United States, Dr. Flood traveled to every corner of the state to unite divided communities and work toward integrating our public schools. His legendary commitment to school integration and his belief that every child deserves an equitable educational opportunity will serve as the foundation and beacon for the work of the Forum’s new Center for Educational Equity and Opportunity.
Our Advisory Members
Dr. Tawannah Allen (Jackson), High Point University
Tom Bradshaw, Jr. Public School Forum Board Emeritus Member
Matt Bristow-Smith, Edgecombe Early College High School
Tracey Burns, NC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources
Renee Cavan, Truist
Nicky Charles
Dr. Scott Elliott, Watauga County Schools
Dr. Alice Garrett, Flood Group
Dr. Anthony Graham, Winston Salem State University
Dr. Patricia Hilliard, Friday Institute
Dr. Martinette Horner, UNC-Chapel Hill
Dr. Connie Locklear, Public Schools of Robeson County Indian Affairs
Ann McColl, The Innovation Project
Dr. Marjorie Campo Ringler, East Carolina University
Dr. Kathy Spencer, Southeast Education Alliance
David Young (BOD representative), Participate Learning
Dr. Dudley Flood, Honorary Member (non-voting)
Upcoming Events
The Flood Center Student Voices Webinar Series
The Flood Center will convene education stakeholders to hear directly from students on topics related to racial equity and education. Over the next several months, you will be invited to participate in the following Student Voices sessions:
- Teaching History: 1619, 1776, and Today
- Critical Conversations and Deeper Learning: Pedagogy with an Equity Lens
- Increasing Diversity in STEM
- Student Views on Equity: Discipline, Policing, and Access to Opportunities
Our Publications
Pre-K Through 12 Education and COVID-19: Landscape Analysis of Impact Indicators
Study Group XVI Committee on Racial Equity: Action Plan and Recommendations
Our Projects
Color of Education is a partnership between the Public School Forum of North Carolina, the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University, and the Center for Child and Family Policy at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy. Sandra Wilcox Conway of Conway and Associates also provided key partnership design for Color of Education. The partnership seeks to build bridges across the fields of research, policy, and practice and bring together the knowledge and perspectives of communities, educators, policymakers, experts and other key stakeholders focused on achieving racial equity and dismantling systemic racism in education across the state of North Carolina.
Our Funders
