Not exact matches
Residential
segregation by race, age or social or
economic class would no longer be a major problem, for the whole city would be a single unit.
«7 Bennett gives as examples of middle axioms for our time the need of international collaboration in the United Nations, the maintenance of balance between free enterprise and government control of
economic power, the removal of racial
segregation in the churches and its progressive elimination in society.8 Provided such middle axioms are taken for what they are, as Christian «next steps» and not as a watered - down version of the full implications of the love commandment, they can be extremely helpful in the quest of a fuller justice as this is actuated
by Christian love.
The current lack of harmonization among these financing mechanisms leads to gaps in ECE affordability for some low - income families,
economic segregation within ECE settings and classrooms, and underutilization of ECE services
by middle - income families.
It's here that the critics of single - sex education begin to sound like opponents of another kind of separation: the racial and
economic segregation in American public schools documented
by Savage Inequalities author Jonathan Kozol and others.
The majority said de jure
segregation (caused
by the state or a local government) was different from de facto
segregation (resulting from social and
economic factors, like lower housing prices in the city and white flight to the suburbs) and that it was constitutional to address only the first through a metropolitan - wide effort.
There are two points in this statement:
economic segregation has costs, and those costs are borne
by the poorer students.
Since
economic segregation closely mirrors racial
segregation, integrating schools
by income will help create racial and ethnic diversity as well, and this form of diversity produces numerous benefits.
I've argued in earlier columns that because charter schools aren't bound to geographic zones, they should be strategically placed to integrate areas where racial and
economic segregation is reinforced
by district lines.
For Public Schools,
Segregation Then,
Segregation Since: Education and the Unfinished March,
by Richard Rothstein,
Economic Policy Institute, Aug. 27, 2013
What isn't mentioned here, but has been
by the UCLA Civil Rights Project, is that the most widely used mechanism of «choice» in the state, that is charter schools, has increased
economic and ethnic
segregation in the schools (see its study).
Jack A. Chambless calls for letting schools compete for students and ending
segregation by economic status.