Sentences with phrase «choice as the civil rights»

Our nation has «consistently and purposely underserved students of color,» notes Julian Vasquez Heilig, Professor of Educational Policy and Planning at University of Texas Austin, in a 2013 Texas Education Review article on the current reframing of school choice as a civil rights issue.

Or this from Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, «Imagine embracing school choice as the civil rights issue of the next generation.

Some parents of color are strong advocates for school choice as a civil right, for example, yet the NAACP opposes vouchers and has called for a moratorium on charter schools.

Brown v. Board was about school choice as a civil rights issue.

Not exact matches

«It was those kinds of things, but as more options opened some of that was diffused in some places,» she said, noting the increase in choices came after the civil rights movement of the 1960s.

Equal opportunity in choosing a school A recent Wall Street Journal editorial had it right in criticizing civil rights groups like the NAACP for not jumping on the educational choice bandwagon since, as the Journal says, «reform's main beneficiaries are poor and minority students in places like Harlem and New Orleans.»

Currently, parents may choose a better school when their child's school fails to make AYP, but as the Lawyers» Committee for Civil Rights Under Law has called it, the choice option is «a right without a remedy.»

In his book, Bolick describes how he helped orchestrate the mainstream media's first use of civil rights language in defense of school choice while discrediting a voucher opponent as «blocking the schoolhouse door to minority children.»

The neoliberal privatization movement has presented «choice» as a civil rights effort — and as the only option for changing the status quo for these historically underserved students of color.

Louisiana for Children President Ann Duplessis discusses school choice as a moral and civil right.

«The newest and one of the most potent arguments for advancing school choice in Pennsylvania has been pressed forward by state Sen. Anthony Williams, D - Philadelphia, and a handful of urban lawmakers who see the issue as the next step in the civil rights movement.»

Save for a few NAACP branches (including its affiliate in Connecticut, have stepped up in the discussions over Gov. Dan Malloy's school reform effort, and advocated on behalf of Bridgeport mother Tanya McDowell, who will serve five years for trying to provide her child with a high - quality school), the nation's oldest civil rights group offers nothing substantial on addressing issues such as ending Zip Code Education policies, expanding school choice, addressing childhood illiteracy, and revamping how teachers are recruited, trained, paid, and evaluated (especially when it comes to bringing more black men into the teaching profession).

Ironically, as Weingarten wages war on charter schools (and every other kind of school choice that would benefit kids and parents), she managed to pick up the Hubert H. Humphrey Civil and Human Rights Award, «for her lifelong commitment to improving America's education system.»

«If people who have an equality orientation and a civil rights orientation see themselves as on the outside of the movement for school choice, then the only people who are going to be left are people who have different motivations.

«This report compiles skewed and incomplete data that, in the authors» own words, is largely based on «assumptions» and «suggestions,» and it neglects to take into consideration important factors, such as parental choice, the similarity of student populations between inner city charters and inner city traditional schools, and that charter schools intentionally locate in neighborhoods with the greatest need, a fact that we would hope champions of civil rights would celebrate, not condemn.

This doesn't mean that Wake County's efforts to go back to zoned schools makes sense; as discussed on last week on Dropout Nation, restricting school choice is antithetical to ensuring that education is the civil right it is supposed to be.

Under whatever name you call it: «turnaround schools,» «Commissioner's Network,» or «schools of choice,» the bottom line is that citizens in the communities designated as under - performing based on these inadequately - developed and unproven tests have been stripped of their civil rights.

Therefore, they suggested speaking of «choice» as the «civil rights issue» of our time.

Now we have a president who «love [s] the poorly educated,» who makes up his own «facts,» who's never been accountable to anyone and intends to keep it that way, who blathers about «choice» as a civil rights issue — as have the two presidents before him; only he, with DeVos, the least qualified Secretary of Education this country's ever had, will do what none has done before, what most voters don't approve, legalize vouchers and route public funding into religious schools, thereby undermining another foundation of our democracy, the separation of church and state.

Reactions have ranged from outrage and disgust that once again self - published authors were being treated as amateurs, wannabes, and «aspiring authors,» to anger at indie authors for trying to liken their plight to the civil rights movement with Howey's choice of title and comments along the lines of, «It's like shades of Jim Crow when blacks had to sit in the back of the bus...» [1.

Norris, whose family is from Birmingham, says this choice is perfect for January because the book will «entertain and inform young readers as the country remembers the civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. for the national holiday in his name.»

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