Sentences with phrase «disproportionately affect students»

Finally, if, as in many districts, novice teachers are concentrated in schools serving low - achieving students and students in poverty, then a seniority - based layoff approach will disproportionately affect the students in those schools.

In one place, it's just the opposite: «[s] uspension and expulsion disproportionately affect students with emotional and behavioral disorders and students of color, contributing to school disengagement...»

Research repeatedly shows that harsh disciplinary policies disproportionately affect students of color and students with disabilities.

Five months after Clinton's Harlem speech, the Democratic Party platform adopted at its convention included language to end the school - to - prison pipeline, and to oppose discipline policies that disproportionately affect students of color and students with disabilities.

We will end the school to prison pipeline by opposing discipline policies which disproportionately affect students of color and students with disabilities, and by supporting the use of restorative justice practices that help students and staff resolve conflicts peacefully and respectfully while helping to improve the teaching and learning environment.

Stating that «teachers and principals are not the problem,» Secretary of Education Arne Duncan took to the podium at the White House today to unveil a national initiative aimed at addressing «systematic inequities» that shortchange some schools and disproportionately affect students in high - poverty, high - minority areas.

Driven by evidence that school suspensions disproportionately affect students of color and are ineffective at deterring inappropriate behavior, Mayor Bill de Blasio has announced new initiatives that will revamp discipline strategies in public schools across New York City.

Topics covered ranged from the stated goals of school discipline policies, to how and why the disproportionately affect students of color.

The United Way leadership team encouraged this critical approach and we identified that chronic absenteeism disproportionately affects students from low - income communities.

Across the country, absenteeism disproportionately affects the students from low - income families and communities of color and those with disabilities.

While the rising percentage of high school graduates described by Murnane occurred at the peak of the testing and accountability movement, it is clear that high stakes accountability disproportionately affects those students in need of the most support.

The result has been a major increase in disciplinary action that disproportionately affects students of color.

Take for example the issue of school discipline, which disproportionately affects students of color.

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Especially if it is a vote that disproportionately affects Latino students.

Chargebacks are state - mandated fees imposed on a county when its residents attend another county's community college, affecting most Towns in the county but disproportionately affecting municipalities near county borders with students attending community colleges in the neighboring county.

«Sexual assault victimization disproportionately affects certain minority college students.»

The student group, which is the local chapter of a national organization, serves the local Asian / Pacific Islander American communities by conducting free health screenings at various community centers for diabetes, vision impairment, and hypertension, as well as hepatitis B and C, which disproportionately affect people of Asian descent.

I explore three broad hypotheses for why African Americans might not have benefited as much as whites from the funding initiatives: 1) kindergarten funding disproportionately drew African Americans out of higher - quality education settings; 2) instead of raising additional revenue to fund local kindergarten programs fully, school districts offered lower - quality kindergarten programs to African Americans or moved funds from existing school programs from which African Americans may have disproportionately benefited; and 3) African Americans were more adversely affected by any subsequent «upgrading» of school curricula as more students entered elementary grades having attended kindergarten.

The budget - cutting dismissal of 2,100 permanent teachers last year disproportionately affected three schools in low - income and minority areas, violating the state constitutional right of students to an equal and proper education, according to the lawsuit.

The basic claim in this lawsuit is that California's handling of teacher tenure, dismissal, and the like are resulting in grossly ineffective teachers being placed in classrooms; that these teachers are disproportionately affecting low - income and minority students; and that this violates the California Constitution's guarantee of equal protection.

They disproportionately affect poor, black students.

«The lack of effective dismissal statutes and LIFO affect high - poverty and minority students disproportionately.»

Teach about classism, consumer culture, the dissolution of labor unions, environmental pollution, and other injustices disproportionately affecting the poor, preparing new generations of students to make a more equitable world.

These closures disproportionately affected low - income, low - achieving, and black students.

Seventy percent of all non-graduates were members of minority racial and ethnic groups, indicating that minority students are disproportionately affected by this graduation crisis.

The Disproportionate Impact of Seniority - Based Layoffs on Poor, Minority Students Looking at the 15 largest districts in California authors Cristina Sepe and Marguerite Roza, demonstrate that teachers at risk of layoff are concentrated in schools with more poor and minority students, concluding that «last in, first out» policies disproportionately aStudents Looking at the 15 largest districts in California authors Cristina Sepe and Marguerite Roza, demonstrate that teachers at risk of layoff are concentrated in schools with more poor and minority students, concluding that «last in, first out» policies disproportionately astudents, concluding that «last in, first out» policies disproportionately affect...

According to the study, the inability to finish the math sections disproportionately affected particular students: those from schools where average scores on the old SAT were categorized as «low» or «medium.»

Students with disabilities were affected by various disciplinary procedures disproportionately.

In a recent speech, Hillary Clinton embraced the Obama administration's efforts to reform school discipline policies that rely heavily on suspension and expulsion, noting that these policies disproportionately affect black students.

School cutbacks may also disproportionately affect low - income students.

But this seminal study documented exactly how it disproportionately affects disadvantaged students.

He also said there is evidence that the laws in question disproportionately affect poor and minority students.

Chicago's flunking policy has increased the dropout rate of retained students, has not improved their academic outcomes, wastes some $ 100 million in scarce school funds every year, and disproportionately affects African - American students.

The decline in equity, with African American students falling behind students from other racial / ethnic groups, is particularly disturbing and has raised questions about the policies around school closings and openings, which disproportionately affected African American students.

Across all subject areas and fields, shortages disproportionately affect low - income students, English learners and students of color.

This summer learning loss «disproportionately affects low - income students» — like the students...

Looking at the 15 largest districts in California authors Cristina Sepe and Marguerite Roza, demonstrate that teachers at risk of layoff are concentrated in schools with more poor and minority students, concluding that «last in, first out» policies disproportionately affect the programs and students in their poorer and more minority schools than in their wealthier, less minority counterparts.

They will hit hardest in poor urban and rural communities and disproportionately affect minority students and those in special education.

The department enforces the requirement via civil rights investigations and has opened at least one such probe: The agency is examining whether teacher instability in Florida's Duval County is disproportionately affecting black and Hispanic students» access to education.

Cuts to student aid disproportionately affect African Americans as three out of five Black undergraduate students receive Pell Grants.

Its general secretary, Brian Lightman, told the Times Educational Supplement: «We suspect the very ad hoc decision that was made to lift the grade boundaries has disproportionately affected certain groups of students and so we think it is very worthwhile to examine this further and gather evidence.

Originally seen as a challenge to teacher seniority, Reed vs. California was filed in 2009 by the ACLU on behalf of students at three low - income schools against the state and the LA Unified school district, alleging that widespread seniority - based layoffs enacted during the budget crisis of 2008 — 2009 disproportionately affected low income and minority students, depriving them of equal access to a quality education.

The most recent 2016 report shows that chronic absence affects 7.3 % of California elementary school students, with disproportionately high rates of absenteeism and suspensions for youth of color, as well as low - income, homeless, foster and special education students.

Teachers working with students disproportionately affected by these factors will be punished for their commitment.

The San Francisco and Los Angeles Unified School Districts have both struck down their willful defiance rules as grounds for suspension, citing concerns that suspensions under this rule disproportionately affect minority students.

Grassroots community organization Empower DC plans to sue the District over Chancellor Kaya Henderson's school - closure plan, saying that the closures disproportionately affect black students.

The study points out important facts about the fallout of school closings, such as how students of color and low - income students are disproportionately affected and how less than half of displaced students end up in better performing schools following school closure.

The new language goes into more detail, calling specifically for changes in tough disciplinary policies at schools that disproportionately affect blacks, Latinos, students with disabilities and LGBT students.

Teacher Denise Casco at Vista del Valle Dual Language Academy in San Fernando said the inclusion of student achievement could disproportionately affect her because she serves a more disadvantaged community than others in the district.

Summer slide, or the learning loss many students experience during summer break, disproportionately affects low - income students.