Sentences with phrase «addressing segregation»

By not addressing segregation, reformers are turning off the stove when the house is going up in flames.

The public advocate also said she would hire a chief diversity officer for the Department of Education in order to address segregation in city public schools, which she said is more rampant now than it was in the 1960s and the 1970s.

This kind of information would enable school districts to: 1) thoughtfully address segregation issues, 2) allow schools to purposefully locate in areas that need more diverse schools, and 3) hold states publicly accountable for their effort (or lack of it) toward economic integration

Because movement conservatives of that time such as William F. Buckley Jr., and Barry Goldwater didn't view state - sanctioned racism as the great moral question that it was, because their fetish for preserving tradition led them to believe that the federal government didn't have the obligation to address segregation, because of their concerns about communism and the expansion of federal government, and because they viewed the civil disobedience by activists such as Martin Luther King (as well as their push to force social change) as an affront to the order they craved, they essentially gave succor to Jim Crow segregationists even if that wasn't their original intent.

But rather than requiring these charter schools to develop plans to address this segregation, Stefan Pryor and this present Connecticut State Board of Education has been rewarding these schools by extending their charters and giving them even more funds.

There have been very few policy efforts to address the segregation problem in the U.S., as «housing policy in the United States appears to be in a protracted, transformative period that combines a lack of strong federal leadership with continued reliance on increasingly uncertain federal funding» (Basolo and Scally, 2008).

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.

If faith communities are serious about strengthening the family as the cornerstone of a virtuous society, they must address the challenges posed by socioeconomic segregation.

The civil - rights movement of the1950s and early 1960s was a singular moment in American history that successfully addressed the singular American wrong of the legal segregation of American blacks.

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.

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 City can do much more to address deep segregation in its public schools, such as using more magnet grants to attract a diverse group of parents to segregated schools or moving ahead with an admissions plan aimed at lowering segregation on the Lower East Side, according to a new report.

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.

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.

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.

«Teacher evaluations do not address the root causes of poor performance by students and schools in disadvantaged communities, which are poverty, segregation, and underfunding,» Jones explained.

State Board of Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa criticized New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's proposal from June, which outlined ways to increase diversity in New York City schools but failed to mention the word «segregation» or directly address integration.

As Mayor Bill de Blasio is again being forced to address the city's segregation, a lawsuit wending its way through the courts takes on new resonance.

We need to address the root causes of low - performing students and schools in poverty, segregation, and underfunding schools in low - income communities,» said Hawkins.

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...

To truly address the issue of solitary confinement, Governor Cuomo should create a timeline for discontinuing the use of all solitary confinement and punitive segregation throughout the state prison system.

A Supreme Court decision a decade ago eliminated the use of certain types of district policies that had been voluntarily adopted by some school districts to address rising segregation.

Changing school attendance policies could be «more feasible than reducing income inequality, raising the minimum wage, instituting metropolitan governance, or creating affordable housing stock to address residential segregation,» Owens wrote.

«The authors also addressed the same questions about mtDNA segregation after somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT).

To address key questions of meiotic ploidy reduction, we screen for and characterise novel meiotic proteins, focusing on proteins that are specifically involved in meiotic chromosome segregation and chromosome dynamics in mice.

If we are truly concerned about limiting segregation, then this is where we should look to address the problem.

Murphy High, the school she attended in Mobile, was one of the first in Alabama to begin integrating black and white students in 1963, despite public protests by the state's then - governor, George Wallace, who famously said during his inaugural address that same year, «Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation foreSegregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation foresegregation tomorrow, segregation foresegregation forever.»

The judge's 72 - page decision barely addressed civil - rights lawyers» arguments that the state constitution outlaws all school segregation, regardless of whether government action brought it about.

The majority said de jure segregation (caused by the state or a local government) was different from de facto segregation (resulting from social and economic factors, like lower housing prices in the city and white flight to the suburbs) and that it was constitutional to address only the first through a metropolitan - wide effort.

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.

I would want to address the growing segregation of public schools by race and class.

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.

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.

On the surface, the report provides clear - cut, useful recommendations for addressing persistent school segregation.

Based on a review of existing literature, it argues that the best way to address rising school segregation is to decouple school assignment from neighborhoods through universal school choice.

One theme seemed to emerge: Newer research has led to a better understanding of the points made by the Coleman Report, but progress has often been disappointing in addressing many of the problems — including segregation, poverty and the achievement gap — related to educational inequity.

Gifted Education in New York City: An Analysis of Segregation in New York City's Gifted Programs This report examines New York City's gifted programs and addresses the underrepresentation of African American and Latino students in gifted programs and possible solutions....

The most effective way to address this economic segregation in today's public school system is through school choice.

The district is also working on a districtwide diversity plan that will look at strategies to address socioeconomic segregation.

The report puts figures on a phenomenon we all know happens, but which has not been properly documented previously, one which contributes to the social segregation and inequality of our education system: the extent to which parents have moved house or used even more unorthodox methods, such as faking piety or accessing an accommodating address in a desirable catchment temporarily in order to cheat the system.

On the national level, the Obama administration released legal guidance in late November which made clear that school segregation remains a major problem that needs to be addressed as a matter of education reform.

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.

«Magnet schools are really important: We think they serve a disruptive influence to segregation, and they're really important to helping kids succeed,» said Randi Weingarten in her keynote address.

Nor did he address school segregation, despite a larger plan education officials have said is in the works.

But these privatization supporters speak about the virtues of charters while failing to address how they have increased segregation, sometimes cherry - picked students, taken funding away from underfunded traditional systems, and operated in secrecy.

Hundreds of our communities across the «Black Belt» of the South still have never addressed the type of segregation that occurs when white families flock to private schools in majority - black small towns and rural communities.

One side, backed by rank - and - file teachers and their democratically - elected representatives, sees poverty and segregation as central issues to be addressed though education reform as well as health and housing programs; the other side, backed by wealthy interests, sees poverty as an excuse and unions as the problem.

Tackling such deep structural inequities as segregation and resource allocation is likely necessary to really address school discipline disparities — lest we face yet another instance of educators being asked to throw local solutions at systemic problems.

Given the trends presented in this report, it is likely that segregation will only continue to intensify if nothing is done to address it.»

When districts assign students to schools by their home address, they perpetuate the segregation that forever halts students» development and opportunities.