Sentences with phrase «ed ghettos»

And thirdly, they defend choice against the entreaties of traditionalists such as the Florida Education Association, the affiliate of both the National Education Association affiliates and the American Federation of Teachers that just filed suit this week against the Sunshine State's expansion of vouchers for kids trapped in special ed ghettos.

If they did, they would know that Alexander's plan would all but solidify the Obama Administration's move over the past few years to eviscerate No Child's Adequate Yearly Progress provisions, which have exposed the failure of traditional districts to provide high - quality teaching, curricula, and school cultures to poor and minority children (as well as those condemned to the nation's special ed ghettos).

Considering that young men make up three out of every five children who drop out, account for two out of every three students aged 5 to 21 relegated to special ed ghettos, and, among young men who are high school seniors, read a grade level behind their female peers, it would make sense to make sure that any new accountability system address those issues, something for which Richard Whitmire and I have argued over the past two years.

Ferguson - Florissant meted out at least one out - of - school suspension to 11 percent of black children condemned to its special ed ghettos (including kids covered by Section 504 of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act); that rate is double the 4.9 percent of black kids condemned to special ed in St. Louis who were suspended once from school.

In fact, especially for kids trapped in special ed ghettos, Ferguson may be a worse district to which to be condemned than St. Louis.

Thanks to AYP, traditional districts — especially those in suburbia — have been exposed for failing to provide high - quality teaching, curricula, and school cultures to poor and minority children (as well as those condemned to the nation's special ed ghettos).

It is their young black sons who are the ones most - likely to end up being placed into special ed ghettos even when they only need extra reading instruction.

The law has also forced states to pay more attention to the plight of kids condemned to special ed ghettos.

One likely reason behind the overuse of restraints — the natural rambunctiousness of young men of all races exacerbated by their struggles in learning — is also one of the reasons why they also account for two - thirds of all kids in special ed ghettos.

Not exact matches

The film makes little sense and isn't explained in any fashion, it just happens cos it happens basically, director Cox manages to combine an Ed Wood level of sci - fi with a kind of urban punk ghetto gang theme running through it at the same time.

But, as in the case of the for - profit college sector, the lax oversight of the vouchers, along with the loosening of standards for providing them to students, has perpetuated the kind of fraud that can be as damaging to special ed students — many of whom likely were really struggling with reading than actually learning disabled — as condemning them to traditional school ghettos.