Sentences with phrase «consign students to schools»
Remove barriers that consign students to schools that have a disproportionate share of ineffective teachers.
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«Today when less than 20 % of students in our state are black, but over 90 % of the students consigned to neighborhood schools that perform in the bottom 5 % are black, we have to take a critical look at how we have let the blood, sweat, and tears of freedom fighting generations past turn into today's segregated and unequal systems of schools.
«I grew up in New York City, and I never attended my zoned school, because my family recognized flaws in a system that consigns too many students to inadequate schools.
Schools typically are organized into long, often windowless corridors, lined with 900 - square - foot classrooms — a floor plan that consigns teachers and students to working in relative isolation behind closed doors.
Even if there were ample funds for individual professional development, the bill remains silent on the institutional practices (seniority when assigning positions; favoritism when drawing classes) that consign the newest teacher to the toughest grade level or set of courses, with the toughest students, in the district's toughest school.