Sentences with phrase «address racial segregation»

Just days after the Trump administration announced it would delay enforcing a federal housing rule requiring communities to address racial segregation, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson appeared in Chicago to host a...

While Rosenthal has worked to create new school space in the district and carefully (too slowly, to some) move along a school district rezoning plan to address racial segregation in nearby schools, she has also used her background to hold the de Blasio administration accountable related to the budget and contracting practices through her committee work.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)- New York state is joining a lawsuit filed against the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development and Secretary Ben Carson over a decision to delay an Obama - era rule intended to ensure that communities address racial segregation.

New York state is joining a lawsuit filed against the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development and Secretary Ben Carson over a decision to delay an Obama - era rule intended to ensure that communities address racial segregation.

Two days after releasing his plan on how to promote diversity in the public school system, Mayor Bill de Blasio faced some tough questions Thursday on his approach to addressing racial segregation in the classroom.

Midway through President Clinton's term, his Administration lacks a clear agenda for addressing racial segregation and racial discrimination in schools, civil - rights experts and political analysts say.

Not exact matches

These explainers addressed the nation's new role in world affairs, the threats and possibilities of the atomic age, racial segregation and the importance of emerging technologies.

The emotional heart of Obama's inaugural address came when the president connected the civil rights struggles of our own time back to Lincoln's efforts to free the slaves and King's efforts to end racial segregation.

Representatives in a long - running desegregation lawsuit involving Mississippi's higher education system have reached a $ 503 million settlement that is intended to address decades of deliberate racial segregation in state colleges and universities.

This project, in partnership with the School Choice Demonstration Project at the University of Arkansas, addresses the effects of LSP vouchers on the achievement and non-cognitive skills of students offered vouchers, as well as racial segregation and the competitive effects on students in public schools.

To meet growing public demand and to address the alarming problem of racial tension and unrest in our communities, which is rooted in the harmful effects of school segregation, we urge Congress to appropriate $ 115 million to the Magnet Schools Assistance Program in Fiscal Year 2017 as requested by President Obama.

This report considers the educational consequences of the considerable racial segregation that remains in schools today and the potential of controlled choice to address them.

She argues that school reformers assume that schools can do more to address poverty than is realistic, that accountability policies encourage narrowing of the curriculum and teaching to the test, that vouchers have accumulated no significant evidence of effectiveness, that «virtual charter schools» are a ripoff of taxpayers, and that there are more effective policy solutions that are far from test - based accountability and «school choice» policies: social services for poor families, early childhood education, protecting the autonomy of teachers and elected school boards, reducing class sizes, eliminating for - profit companies and chains from operating charter schools, and aggressively fighting racial and socioeconomic segregation in schools.

In chapter 31, she speaks of the importance of addressing racial and economic segregation.

«At a moment in our history when we confront significant economic inequalities, distressing racial tensions, increasing segregation and crucial questions about immigration, the passage of tepid legislation that addresses none of these issues is not a cause for celebration.»

A liberal Texas activist group asked the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to hold Hurricane Harvey relief funds and other grant monies from Houston until the City fully addresses policies that promote «racial discrimination and perpetuation of segregation.»