Our programs and initiatives reflect our core belief that access to high - quality expanded learning opportunities is essential for closing the opportunity gap and
challenging inequity.
How are schools and individual educators
challenging inequity and rethinking assumptions about poverty, race, and gender?
Segregation sustains racial stereotypes, facilitates identification by race, preserves traditional arbitrary racial taboos, and aids the suppression of those who would
challenge the inequities of the existing system.
In an age of burgeoning innovation and research,
challenging inequities and changing policies, the role of leadership is more vital than ever.
The purpose of tenure — a term that is frequently misused — is to provide due process protection that allow teachers to voice their opinions, advocate for their students, and
challenge inequities and bad practices without fear of unjust retaliation by principals, superintendents or school boards.
Will you focus, as educators are focused, on the civil rights of all children, regardless of their zip code, by
challenging the inequities so many face in equal access to programs, services and support?
Our alums will strengthen our community and
challenge inequity.
To
challenge this inequity under the Illinois Civil Rights Act, Chicago Public Schools filed a lawsuit against the State of Illinois on February 14, 2017.
By pushing her body to the limit and creating works that depict her own reality as both a Guatemalan and a woman, Galindo
challenges the inequities and atrocities that have become commonplace.
By pushing her body to the limit and creating works that depict her own reality as both a Guatemalan and a woman, Galindo
challenges the inequities and...
Not exact matches
Nonetheless, here are five
challenges you may find yourself facing and how you can lead from your strengths, stay in alignment with who you and overcome
inequities to thrive in entrepreneurial land.
But the optimism around supposedly objective algorithms has been
challenged in recent years by evidence that some automated systems amplify bias because they're trained on data reflecting historical
inequities.
«Despite this
inequity and the
challenges it presents, minority businesses thrive at similar levels and even grow more quickly, in some cases, than non-minority firms,» said Rice.
The discussion explored how women are
challenged by pay
inequity, the perception of being too ambitious and by company policies and culture that leave many women who are mothers averse to taking risks.
Churches should
challenge cultures of consumerism, instead of telling their congregations that «God wants [them] to have the desires of [their] hearts» while ignoring issues of poverty and
inequity in their very communities.
The new Rainforest Alliance has a bold and ambitious goal: to accelerate and scale up our work to tackle today's most urgent
challenges: climate change, social
inequity, rural poverty, and biodiversity loss.
According to utz.com «The Rainforest Alliance and UTZ have merged in response to the critical
challenges facing humanity: deforestation, climate change, systemic poverty, and social
inequity.
Iannuzzi was on CapTon earlier this week to discuss the possibility of a new legal
challenge of what education advocates say is a long - standing
inequity in the state's foundation aid formula that disproportionately hurts low - income districts.
It generally masks class differences and
inequities within the African diaspora, but regularly
challenges gender roles and representations.
At 10:30 a.m., Reps. Carolyn Maloney, Charles Rangel and Gregory Meeks, with Congressional Black Caucus Chairman G. K. Butterfield, hold a public forum on the impact of economic
challenges and persistent
inequities facing African Americans across the country, Harlem Hospital Center, 506 Malcolm X Blvd., Manhattan.
«In the Assembly we need to break free from Sheldon Silver's vice grip, and the more independent and third party candidates we have
challenging for Assembly office the closer we can get to achieving that goal, and moving forward progressive solutions to our New York's problems and
inequities.»
«In contrast to some of the other
challenges that women in academia face, service is an area of
inequity that can be addressed relatively easily within institutions hoping to improve gender balance.,» Guarino said.
The current major global
challenges in attaining food and nutrition security are compounded by pressures of growing populations, climate and other environmental change, and economic
inequity and instability.
Those looking to reinvent American schooling for a new century must recognize that unions are holding fast to contracts designed to address the
challenges and
inequities of an earlier era.
Some cities are addressing
inequity, by finding ways to give more students access to
challenging curriculum, reducing the use of disproportionate exclusionary discipline, and improving access to the best schools.
There have been historic winners and losers in school funding and, while a move to a national formula will address this
inequity, the
challenge will be how we transition from one funding system to another in which inevitably there will again be winners and losers.
Many
challenges surround efforts to improve outcomes for kids: systemic
inequity, poverty, and scarce resources.
Team members essentially collaborate around equity issues, potential equity issues, or proactive ways to engage stakeholders about future
challenges arising from
inequities.
Mark enjoyed the diversity of backgrounds and experiences from other fellows within Education Pioneers who provided him with critical insight about how different stakeholders view both the
challenges and solutions to educational
inequity and access.
Leading Educators strongly values equity and
challenges historical
inequity with a persistent focus on dismantling systemic racism.
You bring a lifelong, heartfelt commitment to directly
challenging historical
inequity and to dismantling systemic racism.
Challenges for the politicians will include funding for pupils with high needs, narrowing the attainment gap and removing the regional funding
inequities that continue to prevail in the system.
«Over the past 20 years, charter schools have transformed the lives of millions of students, and although we continue to face
challenges, like funding
inequity and facilities issues, we have become the answer for families looking for a quality education for their children.»
Gross
inequity is a
challenge many principals and schools are forced to contend with.
However, these changes do not address the fundamental issue of funding
inequity for all students.,, Public schools of choice are still not included in the state funding formula and their students are therefore at risk of being treated differently under
challenging funding conditions.
Facing
challenges to improve teaching and learning in the current context of high - stakes testing and accountability and as they contend with discrimination,
inequities and injustices in the status quo, effective school leaders approach their work through a social justice lens.
CCSA released our new schools data, as well as enrollment numbers, which demonstrate a healthy increase, despite a
challenging economy and
inequities in funding and facilities.
While the funding increase to make expenditures at schools of choice more aligned with traditional school district expenditures is laudable, these changes do not address the fundamental issue of funding
inequity: that public schools of choice are not included in ECS and their students are therefore at risk of being treated differently under
challenging funding conditions.
We'll talk about honoring diversity and building on the strength of communities, deliberately and explicitly
challenging all forms of
inequity, specifically in regards to race.
Not all schools can afford to
challenge grades on a routine basis, so this opens up real
inequities.
People respect that
inequity or unacceptable acts are being addressed — and those being
challenged can grow from these organic conversations.
Center researchers often design formative assessment techniques, as well as new teaching and learning approaches for and study innovations in settings where students face
challenges of poverty and other
inequities.
Many schools are forced to divert financial resources away from important educational programs in order to address
challenges such as overregulation by authorizers and facilities
inequities, among other things.
Inequity in how cats vs. dogs included in medical research for human cancer treatments; 5th annual Saving Pets
Challenge; positive effects of fostering cats on emotional / mental state of elderly
Expect accusations of
inequity from Lights» younger participants, especially since
challenge levels can't be set independently for each player.
Challenging the conditions of his personal history, placing himself in the public domain, or recreating situations as a means to comment on the cruelty,
inequity, and the sometimes irrational character of our socio - political circumstances, Paci reveals how identity is shaped and socially conditioned by the global socio - economic apparatus.
Mary Evelyn Tucker, one of the most eloquent voices of the eco-spiritual movement, spoke at the U.N. about the daunting
challenges faced by 21st - century humanitarians: widespread environmental degradation, crippling poverty, social
inequities and unrestrained militarism.
From this perspective, providing paid professional opportunities in the environmental sector is a double win — we can help tackle the intractable
inequities that still plague our nation, while at the same time equip the young people who are most likely to be impacted by
challenges like climate change with the skills and networks to lead the solutions necessary to sustain the environmental movement into the future.
@DakotaFeirer: I owe personal mental health
challenges to the pressures of racism at all levels, #IHMayDay16 it undermines many health
inequities in youth
By giving adults tools for being in relationship with each other, self - awareness and support, this work can create peace and dignity for all students and
challenge deep
inequities in our communities.