Sentences with phrase «fire black teachers»

But opponents of the proposed reforms said scores were used to justify the overturning of a black - run system, to fire black teachers, disempower a traditional district and profit from a public good.

Some of it is because we fired some people, I'll be honest with you, but we didn't just fire black teachers, we fired teachers of all stripes.

Even as school systems redrew their boundaries, fired black teachers and principals, and tore up foundational enrollment structures to comply with desegregation orders, they largely ignored Coleman's earlier research on motivation and academic achievement, which found that competition «has a magic ability to create a strong group goal.»

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And in New Orleans, a substantial group of African - American voters believed that the financial harm done by firing thousands of teachers after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 undermined the economic base of the black community, hurting students more than the school improvements helped them.

I was also fascinated by the story of the Ocean Hill - Brownsville controversy — whereby black leaders demanding «community control» wanted to fire many white, Jewish teachers — and the scars it might leave in terms of teachers» psychology around job protections.

What happened when a city full of teachers, most of them black, was fired hechingerreport.org/happened-city -...

How dare a democrat want to fire incompetent black union teachers because he is more concerned with educating the black children.

Black teachers may have been fired, but many didn't — couldn't — go away.

But the researchers found that white teachers fired after Katrina were more likely to be hired by charter schools than black teachers were.

This included firing four percent of district teachers, mostly black, and replacing them largely with TFA - style teachers, mostly white, whom one astute black Washingtonian labeled «cultural tourists.»

This was particularly made clear in the 1968 when mostly - black families overseeing the Ocean Hill - Brownsville school board dared to fire 13 teachers (along with administrators).

And the mass firing of mainly black teachers and school personnel in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina is shamefully justified by increases in test scores.

While the black community was hit harder by the firings because so many teachers were African American, the researchers did not find a racial disparity in who was rehired after the storm.

In some instances, Black teachers and principals were arbitrarily fired from their positions and replaced with White teachers and principals.

Plus you have, as you know, the whole issue of the 7,000 employees being fired, um, um, 4300 of them, I think, were black teachers.

About 7,500 teachers were fired — most of them black — damaging the city's black middle class, economically and politically.

If we're wondering where all the Black teachers went, well, they got fired in the wake of the Brown v. Board decision, and the profession hasn't recovered.