Sentences with phrase «city white parents»

Terry Moe finds that inner - city white parents who are opposed to diversity are especially interested in switching to private schools («Hidden Demand,» Research, Spring 2001).

Not exact matches

Kalsu was white and the only child of middle - class parents — city - bred, college - educated, married, a father, devoutly Catholic.

The study, which started in 1998 and has been funded by the federal government through 2009, is following 5,000 African - American, Latino and white children born in 21 cities, most to unmarried parents under the age of 25.

It's from small towns, suburbs, cities and the middle of nowhere; it's liberal, conservative, radical and none - of - the - above; its parents are straight, gay and confused; it listens to country, rock and roll, Tejano, jazz, classical and hip hop; and its friends, lovers and family are white, black, brown and every shade you can imagine in between.

Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza, who joined the city school system this month, fanned the flames Friday by retweeting a news story on the meeting headlined: «Watch: Wealthy white Manhattan parents angrily rant against plan to bring more black kids to their schools.»

WHITE PLAINS — Former New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton told some 300 people at a School Safety Symposium at Purchase College Wednesday parents, teachers, police, fire and other first responders need to work together to help stave off incidents of violence like the Newtown, CT tragedy.

«Go into any inner - city neighborhood, and folks will tell you that government alone can't teach kids to learn.They know that parents have to parent, that children can't achieve unless we raise their expectations and turn off the television sets and eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white.»

The city's new Parks Commissioner, Veronica White, is best known for her controversial anti-poverty experiments, including trying to pay poor people to attend parent - teacher conferences and take their kids to the dentist.

City schools Chancellor Richard Carranza offered a semi-apology Monday for tweeting a story that cast Upper West Side parents opposed to a school desegregation plan as little more than wealthy white racists.

A former councilwoman from Manhattan, Ms. Moskowitz could have been a natural choice for a hodgepodge of communities frustrated by Mr. de Blasio, including white voters in Manhattan who have soured on the mayor, business leaders who have long viewed Mr. de Blasio with hostility and a diverse set of charter - school parents across the city.

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Chris is a photographer with a nice city apartment — the kind of job and digs usually given to white romantic leads — and his girlfriend, Rose (Allison Williams), is pretty and funny and sincere when she says her parents aren't racist.

«Go into any inner - city neighborhood, and folks will tell you that government alone can't teach kids to learn.They know that parents have to parent, that children can't achieve unless we raise their expectations and turn off the television sets and eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white.»

In Kansas City in the late 1980s and early»90s, African American parents were justifiably irate when the federal court's integration plan denied their children access to the magnet schools of their choice because so many seats had been set aside for white children — who did not show up in sufficient numbers to fill them.

Hundreds of thousands of students, teachers, and parents packed streets near the White House and the U.S. Capitol and marched in cities around the globe on Saturday to demand more - restrictive gun laws and decry gun violence, the latest in a series of massive demonstrations sparked by the Parkland, Fla., school shooting that killed 17 people last month.

Bending to pressure from several parents» and educators» groups, Mayor Kevin H. White instructed his commissioner of consumer affairs and licensing, Joanne Prevost, to place an immediate moratorium on the licensing of such games while the city ponders a «comprehensive plan» to address the «unregulated proliferation of video games and pinball machines» in Boston.

The return of many white, upper - middle - class, educated parents — and their young children — to city centers has caused some urban districts, like those in Philadelphia, Chicago, and Boston, to actively encourage these families to send their children to local district schools.

In a June speech at the City Club in downtown Chicago, Lewis asked her well - heeled audience, «When will we address the fact that rich white people think they know what's in the best interest of children of African - Americans and Latinos, no matter what the parents» income or education level?»

The report, released Nov. 16 by the New York City - based Public Agenda research group, found that low - income parents and those who are members of racial and ethnic minorities are more interested in an academic focus than are wealthier and white parents.

Everywhere, except in the most exceptional cases, we have seen the resistance of suburban white parents to sending their children to inner - city schools with near majorities or majorities of black children.

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Columbia University professor Amy Stuart Wells, for example, concluded that the decisions of St. Louis parents participating in a voluntary desegregation program were based «on a perception that county is better than city and white is better than black, not on factual information about the schools.»

Perry, a senior at West Charlotte High, a formerly all - black school on the city's west side, was protesting a court case that found one white parent suing the school system over the claim that his daughter was twice denied entry to a local magnet school on the basis of her race.

«Today, the White House Summit validates the hard work of school board members, students, parents and educators in Rochester City and Hillsborough County, and other districts that have played a leading role in using technology to strengthen the high school academic experience,» stated Thomas J. Gentzel, Executive Director, National School Boards Association (NSBA).

In our effort to better understand the logic behind these parents» school choices, as well as the impact of these urban demographic changes on public schools, we conducted in - depth interviews with dozens of parents participating in a kindergarten lottery in one of the increasingly white community school districts in New York City.

We learned through our in - depth interviews that many white, affluent parents want to enroll their children in racially diverse public schools, but they struggle to find schools in New York City that are racially diverse.

Furthermore, we know that there is a large, and potentially growing, group of white parents in the system who would choose otherwise if New York City policymakers would only listen and create more viable, racially diverse schools and racially diverse programs within those schools.

White parents fled in huge numbers to the suburbs to avoid busing / integration for their children, leaving many cities with high percentages of minority communities.

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New York was one of the first states to use Common Core - aligned tests, and as students» scores plummeted under the new tests, a small army of mostly white, middle - class parents in the city's suburbs began to loudly oppose the exams.

In response, well - off parents put their 4 - year - olds into test prep programs — and the gifted program in the city became even whiter.

If students and parents are to have real choices, shuffling urban students between struggling schools in their city is not a satisfactory answer — they must be able to «choose» the predominately white and wealthy schools serving suburban property owners as well.

«There had always been this underlying concern in the community, especially among the parents in the city school district, that there would be such a fearful reaction to consolidation that there would be white flight where you end up with public schools that are all black and private schools that are all white,» said Buffington, who served on the consolidation committee.

However, the proposal to rezone PS 199 and PS 191 was dropped by the city because of the intense push back from parents of color and white parents alike (Taylor, Nov. 2015).

We now know that white parents will voluntarily bus their children to segregated schools in cities in which they don't live.

I'm an author and expert on parenting in the modern - day big city, and I have some easy tips for new parents on how to bring kids up with the wholesome, ice - cream - truck and white - picket fence mentality in a big - city setting.

When my parents got out of the car to sit on its hood and share a cigarette and look out over the city lights before them, I swiveled around in my seat to look back at the remaining tall white letters of the Hollywoodland sign fast fading in the twilight.

These included characteristics on multiple levels of the child's biopsychosocial context: (1) child factors: race / ethnicity (white, black, Hispanic, and Asian / Pacific Islander / Alaska Native), age, gender, 9 - month Bayley Mental and Motor scores, birth weight (normal, moderately low, or very low), parent - rated child health (fair / poor vs good / very good / excellent), and hours per week in child care; (2) parent factors: maternal age, paternal age, SES (an ECLS - B — derived variable that includes maternal and paternal education, employment status, and income), maternal marital status (married, never married, separated / divorced / widowed), maternal general health (fair / poor versus good / very good / excellent), maternal depression (assessed by the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale at 9 months and the World Mental Health Composite International Diagnostic Interview at 2 years), prenatal use of tobacco and alcohol (any vs none), and violence against the mother; (3) household factors: single - parent household, number of siblings (0, 1, 2, or 3 +), language spoken at home (English vs non-English), neighborhood good for raising kids (excellent / very good, good, or fair / poor), household urbanicity (urban city, urban county, or rural), and modified Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment — Short Form (HOME - SF) score.

Demographic information was obtained in the initial parent interview, including the child's sex, age (in years), race / ethnicity (coded into 4 groups: white non-Hispanic, black non-Hispanic, other non-Hispanic, and Hispanic any race), socioeconomic status (SES), and place size of the child's town or city of residence.