Sentences with phrase «about the inequities between»

Through active participation at my child's school, I learned about the inequities between charter and district schools in New York.

Not exact matches

Overall, there's nothing easy about being a parent, and it's made more difficult by the inequity between what certain parents are expected to do and how they're perceived.

Not only is this unfair, but the inequity that comes about because of the division between safe seats and marginal seats also has a corrosive effect on democracy.

Second, I want to raise awareness about the inequities in our public education system, and the unconscionable achievement gap between children from low - income and high - income communities that has developed as a result of these inequities.

I think it suggests that if we are to make a real dent in achievement gaps, we need to be better about addressing inequity that exists early on, or become far more aggressive in interventions between 3rd grade and 8th grade.

In the years since people first began talking about the achievement gap, Ferguson has widened his scope of inquiry, developing a broad vision for correcting inequities that centers less on the differences between groups and more on raising the bar for all students.

For all the policy chatter and debate out there about funding inequities (between charters and neighborhood schools is one favorite), you don't hear much talk about just how inequitable the funding gaps can be among the 15,000 or so school districts (or among schools within the same district — don't even get me started).

Passionate about charter school legislation after her many years with CICS, Twilley pioneered the way for CICS alumni to organize around the 2012 Illinois bill that addressed the funding inequity between charter and traditional public schools.

The educators who gathered for this training spoke about the connections between the violence we see playing out in the streets to the roots of inequity that we can see in our classrooms as early on as preschool.

Sisters in Crime, also known as SinC, was born thirty years ago when a small group of female mystery writers saw inequities between how men and women crime writers were treated in the mystery writing community and wanted to do something about it.