Sentences with phrase «desegregation issues»

The IDRA EAC - South's capacity - building technical assistance can help state and local education agencies in addressing inequities and desegregation issues impacting race equity.

The IDRA EAC - South's capacity - building technical assistance can help state and local education agencies in creating asset - based solutions that help address inequities and desegregation issues impacting national origin equity.

Not exact matches

Some people think the decision involved school desegregation or some other issue.

I'm only just starting this one, but I can already see that it's more social - history - driven than Free for All, including some fascinating insights on how such seemingly far - flung issues as race, desegregation and gender have played into the development of the current school lunch program.

Torres endorsed de Blasio in December but has frequently critiqued him on issues such as police reform and school desegregation.

Councilman Ritchie Torres — who has openly critiqued the mayor on police reform, school desegregation and other issues — and Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez, a close de Blasio ally, joined the mayor at New Tabernacle Baptist Church to announce they and five colleagues wanted to see de Blasio serve four more years.

The history of magnet schools goes back to districts addressing the issues with desegregation in the 1960s.

Today, Orfield's work with the Harvard Civil Rights Project seeks to keep civil rights issues front and center at a timewhen many desegregation orders are being slowly phased out.

In his 5 1/2 years in Topeka, he has overseen the implementation of a court - ordered desegregation plan, the passage of two bond issues, and the creation of a strategic plan for the 14,000 - student district.

Steven Rivkin, professor of economics at Amherst College, questioned a focus on desegregation and pointed out complexities to the issue that researchers have barely begun to examine.

It takes a great deal of personal time to become informed regarding such issues as racial desegregation, charter schools, curriculum content, testing, graduation standards, geographic placement of a new school, and the configuration of attendance boundaries.

Professor Gary Orfield is Professor of Education and Social Policy and founding Co-Director of the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University is the author of many books and articles on school desegregation and other civil rights issues and his work was cited by the Supreme Court in its recent decision on affirmative action.

Hickok: If an existing desegregation order limits public school choice, then the district has the obligation to go back to the office that issued the order to change it, so the district can offer public school choice.

The Spring 2016 issue of Education Next features articles by leading scholars that revisit and update Coleman's findings on desegregation, the achievement gap, school choice, teacher quality, the role of the family, and academic games.

In a forum that was published in the Fall 2010 issue of Ed Next, «Is Desegregation Dead?»

His publications include works on school desegregation, access, success and desegregation in higher education, teacher education and equity issues in assessment.

Yet school desegregation is an issue that has been virtually absent from education reform debates and policies enacted over the past 13 years.

What disturbs Orfield and his colleagues is that the issue of school desegregation is completely absent from the nation's political and education agenda.

Previous administrations have adjusted the pace of enforcement based on their ideology and political will.32 For example, then - President Richard Nixon ordered the OCR to not issue clarification to guidance around school integration in hopes of slowing desegregation.33 Then - OCR Director Leon Panetta was forced to resign after he contradicted the president and agreed to issue clarification.34 At any given time, the OCR must evaluate violations of federal civil rights laws; it will now be up to Education Secretary DeVos to decide if violations are addressed or swept under the rug.

Federal judges who oversee desegregation plans in Louisiana are wrestling with that issue at a time when President Trump wants to spend billions of dollars on charter schools, vouchers and other «school choice» initiatives.

Issues in equity and desegregation negatively impact student success in numerous ways to include a lack of access and opportunity to gifted programs and advanced coursework, low expectations, disproportionate student discipline, and unequal resource distribution.

The authors explain the oft - told story of Prince Edward County, Va., which sought to thwart desegregation by shuttering its public schools and then issuing vouchers that families could use at segregated private schools.

Federal courts issue desegregation orders when they find that districts or states are maintaining separate educational facilities and systems for students of different races.

In addition to scholarly work, he has served as expert witness or special master in more than three dozen class action civil rights cases, on school desegregation, housing discrimination and other issues, and as consultant to many school districts, federal, state and local governments, civil rights groups and teachers organizations.

Claire Smrekar and Ellen Goldring found that with regards to desegregation, «the issues of racism and intolerance born out of ignorance and isolation seem to coalesce for many parents into a perspective that considers school integration at the elementary school level an important starting point» (Smrekar and Goldring, 106).

The Chamber of Commerce, fearing the effects of this boycott, made an interracial committee to deal with the issues of desegregation.

(2) signed by an individual, or his parent, to the effect that he has been denied admission to or not permitted to continue in attendance at a public college by reason of race, color, religion, or national origin, and the Attorney General believes the complaint is meritorious and certifies that the signer or signers of such complaint are unable, in his judgment, to initiate and maintain appropriate legal proceedings for relief and that the institution of an action will materially further the orderly achievement of desegregation in public education, the Attorney General is authorized, after giving notice of such complaint to the appropriate school board or college authority and after certifying that he is satisfied that such board or authority has had a reasonable time to adjust the conditions alleged in such complaint, to institute for or in the name of the United States a civil action in any appropriate district court of the United States against such parties and for such relief as may be appropriate, and such court shall have and shall exercise jurisdiction of proceedings instituted pursuant to this section, provided that nothing herein shall empower any official or court of the United States to issue any order seeking to achieve a racial balance in any school by requiring the transportation of pupils or students from one school to another or one school district to another in order to achieve such racial balance, or otherwise enlarge the existing power of the court to insure compliance with constitutional standards.

Of course, as with most issues during the Civil Rights Movement, desegregation busing was not without its protestors and opponents.

In other words, judges in theory apply the law, but in practice they make law on momentous issues from school desegregation to abortion to same - sex marriage.