Sentences with phrase «disparate impact of school»
The Children's Defense Fund has been highlighting the disparate impact of school discipline policies on children of color and poor children since the publication of our 1975 report, School Suspensions: Are They Helping Children?
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Then last fall OCR decided to wade into school finance under the banner of disparate impact analysis.
This one demands that each school district provide a detailed accounting of resources available to each school in order to avoid allegations of racially disparate impacts on school children.
In another timely feature, Shep Melnick gives us an assessment of the October 2014 «Dear Colleague Letter» from the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights, which demanded that each school district provide a detailed accounting of resources available to each school in order to avoid allegations of racially disparate impacts on children.
The departments, citing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, gave the school districts «guidance on how to identify, avoid, and remedy discriminatory discipline,» telling them they risked legal action if school disciplinary policies had «a disparate impact, i.e., a disproportionate and unjustified effect on students of a particular race.»
• Epstein says the DOJ and ED err when arguing against disciplinary policies on the basis of «disparate impact,» a phrase with a legal history that, «when applied to schools, imputes race - conscious behavior on the part of school administrators.»
They will likely rescind the policy guidance promulgated by the Obama team that applied «disparate impact theory» to the issue of school discipline.
Today's guidelines announced in Baltimore by the Justice and Education Departments brings the tortured logic of disparate impact to school discipline.
In a series of essays, Michael Petrilli has raised concerns that applying disparate impact theory to school - discipline reform is an unsound overreach by the federal government and will cause chaos in the classroom.
Most importantly, the guidance reminded schools and districts that, pursuant to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, (and the corresponding disparate impact regulations established in that era), they have an obligation to eliminate unjustifiable policies associated with excessive and disparate discipline.
District officials were advised that they risk legal action if school disciplinary policies have «a disparate impact, i.e., a disproportionate and unjustified effect on students of a particular race.»
The package included a «Dear Colleague» letter, issued jointly by DOE and DOJ, warning against intentional racial discrimination but also stating that schools unlawfully discriminate even «if a policy is neutral on its face — meaning that the policy itself does not mention race — and is administered in an evenhanded manner but has a disparate impact, i.e., a disproportionate and unjustified effect on students of a particular race.»
In 2014 the departments of Education and Justice together sent each school district a letter advising them that they risked legal action if disciplinary policies had a disparate impact on students of a particular race.
How about school discipline and the use of «disparate impact» gauges to determine whether discrimination is occurring?
For instance, a long discussion of charter - school results cites two of the important CREDO research reports but omits a crucial third one that shows hugely disparate impacts of different types of charter schools (with those operated by nonprofit charter management organizations vastly outperforming «mom - and - pop» and other charter sectors such as for - profit and online charter schools).
But the DOJ and ED err in arguing against the policies on the basis of «disparate impact,» a phrase with a legal history that, when applied to schools, imputes race - conscious behavior on the part of school administrators.
In excruciating detail, Rebell and Block show how OCR's effort to apply disparate impact analysis to schools in New York and four other large cities produced an «eclectic package of standards and methods» that «did not prove viable in practice.»
Dunn argues that the Office of Civil Rights in the U.S. Department of Education has been using «disparate impact analysis» to issue profoundly misguided policies on school discipline and school finance.
OCR has made its investigatory power so open - ended that it can look at everything and anything that goes on in a school, and it has created a disparate impact standard so rigid that it can always find a violation of federal law.
Mike Petrilli has already exposed the folly of the agency's witch hunt for disparate impact in school discipline and explained the challenges it will pose for educators trying to run schools that are conducive to learning.
By a large margin, the public opposes «no - disparate impact» policies, regardless of whether the federal government or the local school district formulates them.
Under this «disparate impact analysis,» once federal officials determine that the distribution of any resource disadvantages a protected minority, schools must not only «demonstrate that the policy or practice is necessary to meet an important educational goal,» but also show that there is no «comparably effective alternative policy or practice that would meet the school district's stated educational goal with less of a discriminatory effect.»
The misalignment of school and work schedules has a disparate impact on black, Latino, and low - income working parents.
To view a copy of «Opportunities Suspended: The Disparate Impact of Disciplinary Exclusion From School,» by Daniel Losen and Jon Gillespie, please click here.
(Los Angeles, CA) Today, the Center for Civil Rights Remedies at the Civil Rights Project / Proyecto Derechos Civiles issued «Opportunities Suspended: The Disparate Impact of Disciplinary Exclusion From School,» a nationwide report based on an analysis of Federal government suspension - related data from the 2009 - 10 school year for grades KSchool,» a nationwide report based on an analysis of Federal government suspension - related data from the 2009 - 10 school year for grades Kschool year for grades K - 12.
Source: «Opportunities Suspended: The Disparate Impact of Disciplinary Exclusion from School.»
But the new study, «Opportunities Suspended: The Disparate Impact of Disciplinary Exclusion from School,» is different for two primary reasons.
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Examples of policies that can raise disparate impact concerns include policies that impose mandatory suspension, expulsion, or citation (e.g., ticketing or other fines or summonses) upon any student who commits a specified offense — such as being tardy to class, being in possession of a cellular phone, being found insubordinate, acting out, or not wearing the proper school uniform; corporal punishment policies that allow schools to paddle, spank, or otherwise physically punish students; and discipline policies that prevent youth returning from involvement in the justice system from reenrolling in school.
Daniel J. Losen and Jonathan Gillespie, Opportunities Suspended: The Disparate Impact of Disciplinary Exclusion from School
Opportunities suspended: The disparate impact of disciplinary exclusion from school.
Some critics fear the change would have a disparate impact on law schools with significant numbers of minority students, whom studies have shown traditionally don't do as well on standardized tests, which is also a concern of the council.