Sentences with phrase «affect students of color»

Research repeatedly shows that harsh disciplinary policies disproportionately affect students of color and students with disabilities.

Five months after Clinton's Harlem speech, the Democratic Party platform adopted at its convention included language to end the school - to - prison pipeline, and to oppose discipline policies that disproportionately affect students of color and students with disabilities.

We will end the school to prison pipeline by opposing discipline policies which disproportionately affect students of color and students with disabilities, and by supporting the use of restorative justice practices that help students and staff resolve conflicts peacefully and respectfully while helping to improve the teaching and learning environment.

Driven by evidence that school suspensions disproportionately affect students of color and are ineffective at deterring inappropriate behavior, Mayor Bill de Blasio has announced new initiatives that will revamp discipline strategies in public schools across New York City.

Topics covered ranged from the stated goals of school discipline policies, to how and why the disproportionately affect students of color.

I am confident in my ability to fix those problems in my school that affect students of color and students situated in poverty.

I am able to inquire into the problems in my school that affect students of color and students situated in poverty?

Advocates have long argued that the discipline code disproportionally affects students of color and those who speak English as a Second Language.

The result has been a major increase in disciplinary action that disproportionately affects students of color.

Take for example the issue of school discipline, which disproportionately affects students of color.

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70 % of our students in the two IV [InterVarsity] regions affected [are] POC [persons of color].

Growing up in a racialized society has an emotional impact on students of color and leads to unconscious biases that affect how all of us perceive ourselves and others.

Some called the survey offensive because it dealt with how students interact with children of other races and how their skin color affects their relationships with teachers.

Mundy - Shephard says that LGBT youth of color generally choose not to participate in GSAs and her research will examine whether the students» reasons vary by racial group, and the extent to which these reasons are affected by internal and external perceptions of LGBT identity as being incompatible with racial minority status, i.e., whether they perceive non-heterosexuality as a form of «acting white.»

The lack of teacher diversity in Philadelphia is negatively affecting our students, primarily young males of color.

Across all subject areas and fields, shortages disproportionately affect low - income students, English learners and students of color.

The most recent 2016 report shows that chronic absence affects 7.3 % of California elementary school students, with disproportionately high rates of absenteeism and suspensions for youth of color, as well as low - income, homeless, foster and special education students.

Across the country, absenteeism disproportionately affects the students from low - income families and communities of color and those with disabilities.

The lack of diversity in the teaching profession, combined with these differing interpretations of student ability and behavior, may partially explain why students of color are suspended or expelled from all levels of school at disproportionate rates.23 Such harsh discipline practices place them at higher risk of subsequent academic disengagement and increase the probability that they will later drop out.24 While these mindsets may be unintentional, their prevalence greatly affects students» performance and behavior.

Jitu, who leads the national Journey for Justice Alliance, provided a searing history of the systemic lack of educational opportunities afforded to students of color and, consequently, why communities must take control of the vital issues affecting their schools.

The study points out important facts about the fallout of school closings, such as how students of color and low - income students are disproportionately affected and how less than half of displaced students end up in better performing schools following school closure.

While government based accountability assessments have raised a variety of concerns that affect students in general, for students of color these assessments further perpetuate racial inequities (Hursh, 2007).

She noted that allowing schools to suspend students for being disruptive means that children of color are disproportionally affected.

How suspension and expulsion rates vary in a group of Oregon school districts and how students of color may be affected by those differences is just one of the topics...

Death by a Thousand Cuts: Racism, School Closures, and Public School Sabotage, a stunning report released this week by Journey for Justice (J4J), cuts through the ideological babble on school «reform» and lets us listen as «voices from America's affected communities of color» — parents, students, and community leaders — tell us how school closures and privatization are affecting them, their neighborhoods, and their children.

School segregation isolates many students of color in neighborhoods that battle entrenched poverty — where housing remains inadequate and the unemployment rate is considerably higher than that of more affluent communities29 — and these challenges affect student academic success.

Test refusal connects so many issues that affect public school students everywhere but are felt hardest in poor communities of color.

Now when we talk about education in Oregon, we talk about focusing on strategies for closing the achievement gaps, the graduation gaps and the opportunity gaps that disproportionately affect underserved students of color, English Language Learners (ELL), LGBTQ2 + students, students living in poverty, students with disabilities, first - generation post-secondary students and students in foster care.

In one place, it's just the opposite: «[s] uspension and expulsion disproportionately affect students with emotional and behavioral disorders and students of color, contributing to school disengagement...»

How suspension and expulsion rates vary in a group of Oregon school districts and how students of color may be affected by those differences is just one of the topics that REL Northwest researchers are delving into in the coming months.

Teachers of color push within their unions to raise issues affecting English - language learners getting reclassified as fluent or decrying the disproportionate numbers of Black students in special education or being disciplined.

The stereotypes and biases we are exposed to can affect the way students are viewed; left unchecked, students of color are disproportionately disciplined, left behind academically, and are overwhelmingly represented among the students who can't identify a single caring adult at school.

The next posts in this series explore how POBF policies are affecting Historically Black Colleges and Univeristy and other institutions that serve large percentages of students of color, and how policymakers in one state, Kentucky, can set an example.

E4E - New York member Christine Montera asked her students how metal detectors affect students and learning when students of color account for 85 percent of...

Parents of color fear that demographic shift this will also affect the school's «commitment to everyone» in that it will start to focus its resources and funding on the new incoming students (Posey - Maddox 2014).

This question encompasses rather than minimizes the realities of US discipline policies disproportionally affecting students on the margins broadly, including students from working class backgrounds, [7], students of color [8], students of color with dis / abilities [9], and gender non-conforming students [10].

His research interests center on how race, racism, and assimilative pressures affect the experiences and outcomes of students of color and early generation immigrant students in US K — 12 contexts.

Public schools have not adapted to address students» mental, social, and emotional barriers to learning, and children of color are disproportionately affected.

Those who appear to be most affected are low - income students, often students of color.