Sentences with phrase «based on segregation»

The Southern Baptist branch was based on segregation when it formed, splitting from its parent Baptist Church which apparently could not in theory subjugate individuals to being less than human based on skin, eye, and hair color and features.

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Historically, unless they could «pass» as white, they were victims of segregation based on that heritage.

Laws based on religious beliefs have had a long history in the United States: segregation, anti-abortionism, not giving women the vote, Sunday laws (look them up) and other blue laws.

It's a simple idea that these race segregations are based on the environment around the church.

And, after the white South African government enacted the 1913 Natives Land Act establishing the principle of territorial segregation based on race, indigenous black independent churches rose up in often violent protest.

Segregation based on race, for instance, is sin.

Segregation based on religion is also sin.

It was when modern Western imperialism began to explore and exploit the colored peoples of Africa, Asia and America that the beginning of segregation and discrimination based on color and race was initiated.»

The number of segregations on the physical server varies based on the requirements of each client.

Certainly no real estate agent has ever, say, participated in discrimination or worsened segregation by sending clients to different locations based on their race.

Speaking in support of the amendment, Baroness Massey said that «my chief concern is the fostering of segregation in schools on the basis of religion... I believe that all schools should include and educate all pupils together so that they can learn from each other instead of being segregated on religious and other grounds.»

Protesters hit back at Universities UK last night after it emerged its guidance notes for external speakers said organisers should allow the segregation of students on the basis of gender.

This release is based on the findings from the report «Black Africans in Britain: Integration or segregation?»

«I believe that an increase in pupil segregation on the basis of academic selection would be at best a distraction from crucial reforms to raise standards and narrow the attainment gap and at worse risk actively undermining six years of progressive education reform.»

Pavan Dhaliwal, BHA Head of Public Affairs, commented, «Barack Obama's groundbreaking comments on the issue of faith - based segregation in schools reveal two things.

Hawkins would fight housing segregation with stronger enforcement of existing fair housing laws, a state law banning discrimination based on source of income such as Section 8 housing vouchers, and a state inclusionary zoning law to require a mix of low - income, moderate - income, and market rate units in new or substantially rehabilitated housing developments.

We can not allow further segregation of our community, now based on wealth.»

This segregation is achieved in a number of ways, including the formation of domains based on particular lipids such as cholesterol or sphingomyelin (SM).

Partly based on his MIT Ph.D. thesis research performed in yeast, Sheltzer suspects aneuploidy causes errors in DNA replication, as well as problems with chromosome segregation during cell division.

2007 Selection of research article, «Duplication and segregation of the actin (MreB) cytoskeleton during the prokaryotic cell cycle,» published in Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences USA, by Faculty of 1000 Biology, which comprehensively and systematically highlights and reviews the most interesting papers published in the biological sciences, based on the recommendations of a faculty of well over 2,300 selected leading researchers.

The whites and black dating or vice versa in particular is a major concern, based on the believe that no white should date nor marry a black person, because of the blacks were enslaved by the whites in the time past, and this has led to racism and segregation.

Based on a wealth of existing evidence, however, we are unable to share in the team's optimism that more complete data might show narrower differences in segregation between charter and traditional public schools.

Because the local property tax base is typically higher in areas with higher home values, and there are persistently high levels of residential segregation by socioeconomic status, heavy reliance on local financing contributed to affluent districts» ability to spend more per student.

Proposed plans to allow faith schools to select all pupils based on religious grounds will lead to «increased ethnic and religious segregation across England», according to the British Humanist Association (BHA).

Because the local property tax base is typically higher in areas with higher home values, and there are persistently high levels of residential segregation by socioeconomic status, heavy reliance on local financing enabled affluent districts to spend more per student.

Based on these comparisons, the authors conclude, incorrectly in our view, that charter schools experience severe levels of racial segregation compared to traditional public schools (TPS).

International evidence suggests that adoption of market - based education policies that rely on school choice and competition between schools over enrollment often leads to segregation of children into different schools according to their socio - economic background, race or parents» awareness of educational opportunities.

«Based only on enrollments aggregated to the national and state level, the authors repeatedly highlight the overrepresentation of black students in charter schools in an attempt to portray a harmful degree of segregation,» co-author Brian Kisida explains.

Many critics assert that voucher programs will undermine civic values, promote racial or socio - economic segregation, prompt schools to discriminate based on student ability, and undermine the public commitment to failing schools.

We come then to the question presented: Does segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race, even though the physical facilities and other «tangible» factors may be equal, deprive the children of the minority group of equal educational opportunities?

Evaluation / Assessment: Students will be evaluated based on written journal entries, participation in class discussions and debate on segregation, and persuasive essay.

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.

Even if the Court should reject affirmative action, that would not invalidate existing lawsuits that are based on claims of unconstitutional racial segregation.

In extreme cases, however, attendance zones are deliberately drawn to exclude poor students from affluent schools.60 However, gerrymandering attendance zones is far less common than drawing zones that merely reflect the characteristics of the local area.61 Most school assignment systems sort students based on their place of residence, mimicking patterns of housing segregation.

It is simply insufficient to assign children to schools based solely on where they live; for decades, that type of assignment system has perpetuated both school segregation and racial and income achievement gaps.

Social and ethnic segregation is introduced through maps based on Cairo, Cape Town, Chicago and London.

Based on our research and our own understanding as New York City public school parents, we encourage the DOE to shift its focus away from highly competitive, market - based school choice policies, such as charter schools, which consistently lead to greater racial segregation and a winner - take - all mentaBased on our research and our own understanding as New York City public school parents, we encourage the DOE to shift its focus away from highly competitive, market - based school choice policies, such as charter schools, which consistently lead to greater racial segregation and a winner - take - all mentabased school choice policies, such as charter schools, which consistently lead to greater racial segregation and a winner - take - all mentality.

Our article based on this research was recently published in the American Journal of Education, «School Choice Policies and Racial Segregation: Where White Parents» Good Intentions, Anxiety, and Privilege Collide.

HCC isn't a magnet program and while it segregates children, the segregation is based on academic needs rather than income or race.

This collection of briefs from the National Education Policy Center examines important policy issues (including the impacts of school choice and housing policy on school segregation), and identifies policies with a strong research base that can be used to combat identified problems.

But it warns of an «increase in stratification» and says «there is a risk that parents select schools based on peer groups, where schools compete to attract particular groups of people, where barriers to choice result in segregation».

These practices are: 1) inclusive education is not a separate initiative from general education, 2) students receiving special education services are general education students first, 3) decisions about student services are based on individual student needs, 4) the district must raise its expectations for students with disabilities and end their social and physical segregation, and 5) the success of every student is the collective responsibility of all district educators.

Another oft - stated reservation with charter schools is their unquestionable link to increased segregation of students based on race and income.

Los Angeles — February 4, 2010 — Today, the Civil Rights Project / Proyecto Derechos Civiles at UCLA issued «Choice Without Equity: Charter School Segregation and the Need for Civil Rights Standards,» a nationwide report based on an analysis of Federal government data and an examination of charter schools in 40 states and the District of Columbia, along with several dozen metropolitan areas with large enrollments of charters.

The Civil Rights Project / Proyecto Derechos Civiles at UCLA issued «Choice Without Equity: Charter School Segregation and the Need for Civil Rights Standards,» a nationwide report based on an analysis of Federal government data and an examination of charter schools in 40 states and the District of Columbia, along with several dozen metropolitan areas with large enrollments of charters.

But they know not to talk about substantive education issues that affect these children like the one reported by the Civil Rights Project: «Based on evidence from several important measures of segregation, the Civil Rights Project stands by its strong contention that re-segregation has occurred, and that African - American and Latino students are experiencing more isolation in schools than they were a generation ago — and further, that this segregation is deeply linked to unequal educational opportunities.»

Although that movement often deploys the rhetoric of equity and diversity to rationalize itself and enlists compelling, community - based representatives to promote its agenda, that agenda has typically worked against community interests and exacerbated inequities — draining resources from struggling districts, deepening segregation, diverting attention from systemic change to individual choice, and so on.

This paper uses evidence from Durham, North Carolina to examine the impact of school choice on racial and class - based segregation across schools.

Flip through our complete summary of the high - quality empirical research conducted on school choice programs to date, including evidence based on students» test scores (of those using programs and those who remain in public schools), long - term educational attainment, integration / segregation, fiscal effects and students» civic values.

I agree that our public school system is based on de facto segregation, and I want for this reality to be changed.