Sentences with phrase «addressing racial bias»

In late February, SUNY Plattsburgh President John Ettling distributed a letter to the campus community outlining a series of steps to address racial bias.

School administrators will have to explicitly address the racial biases and stereotyping that stifle black educators» professional growth, argue researchers Ashley Griffin and Hilary Tackie in a new report from The Education Trust, a national nonprofit advocacy organization.

Our submission provided information about racial profiling and how to identify it; explained (1) why the OPP's DNA collection from migrant workers appeared to be consistent with racial profiling, and (2) how police DNA collection may disproportionately affect racialized and marginalized groups; and made recommendations on how the OPP can address racial bias in its policing.

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Black and Hispanic religious conservatives will expect their white allies to address issues too often seen as «Democratic» by their constituencies — such as racial bias in sentencing.

Howard Beach triggered a string of other racially - charged attacks - Mario Cuomo established a task force on bias - related violence to suggest how New York could deter racial violence while addressing its causes and effects.

Since Ferguson, 24 states have passed at least 40 new measures addressing such things as officer - worn cameras, training about racial bias, independent investigations when police use force and new limits on the flow of surplus military equipment to local law enforcement agencies.

«We think that reducing implicit racial bias in children could be a starting point for addressing a pernicious social problem,» Heyman said.

She hopes to discover whether these views vary based on the racial / ethnic identity, socioeconomic status, religiosity, and / or sexual orientation of the students, and if so, what steps schools can take to address bias and ensure that they serve the needs of all of their students.

Other steps needed to address achievement gaps include better promotions of promising teaching and relationship - building strategies in schools, a review of bias in disciplinary consequences and identification of gifted students, and effective steps to increase racial diversity in Kentucky's teaching force.

E4E - member Teresa Fenske discusses the reliance on suspensions to address normal behavior in preschoolers, the racial bias that impacts these decisions, and...

The report recommended that the Ottawa Police Service determine the reasons behind these phenomena, whether they be systemic biases or specific policies, and develop and implement solutions, including a multi-year action plan to address the racial disparities demonstrated in the report.

For example, the BC Court of Appeal found that while a disciplinary panel of the BC Veterinary Medical Association (now the College of Veterinarians of BC) had jurisdiction to address asserted racial discrimination by the panel as a matter of bias, the tribunal could decline to address that issue as it was already before the Human Rights Tribunal.

They said that the trial judge erred in not asking the Crown to address the relevance of referring to her as a prostitute, did not provide instructions to the jury to address the «widespread racial bias» invoked by referring to her as they did and «wrongly said a factor important to consent was that Gladue was a prostitute,» wrote the Court of Appeal judges in their decision.

«A constitutional rule that racial bias in the justice system must be addressed — including, in some instances, after the verdict has been entered — is necessary to prevent a systemic loss of confidence in jury verdicts, a confidence that is a central premise of the Sixth Amendment trial right,» Kennedy said.