A White House push directing more than 90 agencies to craft “action plans” to tackle racism, environmental justice, and other inequities has been hamstrung by a lack of data vital to gauging future progress, according to report released Thursday.
“It is not possible to know whether equity is improving, either in a specific program or in society in general, without data,” according to the report by the Leadership Conference Education Fund, a research arm of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, a coalition of civil and human ...