Sentences with phrase «for racial integration»

It shines a whole new light on the inner workings of New York's art museums at the height of the struggle for racial integration, and yet gives little insight on the racist operations that continue to plague our art system today — which perhaps is made most evident when Cahan solemnly asks, «Why five decades later, do we find many of the same challenges in the major museums?»

From their inception in the late 1960s, Chicago's public magnet schools had a twin mandate: to provide the school system with targeted sites for racial integration and to promote centers of academic innovation and distinction.

Instead, the struggle for racial integration and educational equality is taking place in the suburbs, where students are learning in increasingly diverse schools.

With the establishment of the Sheff standard for racial integration in 2008, magnet schools have become the state's primary method for reducing racial segregation and promoting integration within the Greater Hartford Region public school system.

[i] When plaintiffs returned to the courtroom in 2003, they walked out with a new settlement that set even higher standards for racial integration within schools.

This may well be true, but it is surprising to see such strong advocacy for the racial integration of schools at a time when the prospects for any public action — executive, legislative, or judicial — to combine for purposes of integrating urban and suburban school districts are just about nonexistent.

«The same is true for racial integration,» Ryan wrote.

City school officials said Kinsella needs to remain its own school because of its magnet status under the state's Sheff v. O'Neill pact, where city and suburban students are enrolled through a state - run lottery engineered for racial integration.

If some people choose to leave the Church because it has come to stand for racial integration and for a dynamic approach to social problems, that may be a good sign.

The case for racial integration incorporated both pragmatic and idealistic elements.

This comes as an aside that Rorty does not develop, but it sounds suspiciously like support for racial integration and opposition to affirmative action and quotas, which are of course causes of a conservative hue.

Not exact matches

For example, in the racial conflict, how idle it is to talk about «integration of hearts» so long as millions of blacks are not integrated into economic life.

Eight Alabama pastors had penned a statement entitled «A Call for Unity» in which they expressed basic agreement with King regarding integration and Jim Crow, but took issue with his methods, arguing protests and sit - ins represented the sort of «extreme measures» that only incited racial tensions.

It's nice for this kind of thing to be explored in a light hearted way for once as the theme of racial and cultural integration is usually met with such a negative attention in film.

The school board in Montgomery County, an affluent suburb of Washington noted for the quality of its schools and its voluntary efforts at integration, «violated its own regulations and procedures» on racial balance and building use in the cases of four schools, said Mitchell J. Cooper, a Washington lawyer acting as adviser to the state board.

Attitudes: support for diversity (racial integration), a perception of inequity (that the public schools provide a lower quality education for low - income and minority kids), support for voluntary prayer in the schools, support for greater parent influence, desire for smaller schools, belief in what I call the «public school ideology» (which measures a normative attachment to public schooling and its ideals), a belief in markets (that choice and competition are likely to make schools more effective), and a concern that moral values are poorly taught in the public schools.

Numerous racial - desegregation cases, in which the goal of integration to remedy intentional discrimination is relatively clear, have lasted for decades.

The aim of racial integration of our schools should be recognized as distinct from the aim of providing equal opportunity for educational performance.

Moreover, U.S. District Judge Robert D. Potter's ruling this month could force the district, which paved the way for busing as a way to achieve racial integration of schools nearly three decades ago, to abandon the practice.

In Kahlenberg's opinion, the primary means for achieving economic integration while avoiding the controversy of racial integration is controlled choice.

The commission for which I served as executive director of research was established as an attempt to forestall a lawsuit by the Milwaukee School Board intended to force metropolitan racial integration.

The pitch for greater judicial involvement comes as a state superior court judge must decide whether Connecticut's integration efforts have been adequate, or if more needs to be done to reduce the racial and ethnic isolation that persists among the schools in the Hartford region.

If DOJ officials truly care about racial integration, then they should heed the calls from the Black Alliance for Educational Options, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, Senator Lamar Alexander, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, the Washington Post and others to withdraw the lawsuit altogether.

Among the subset of students for whom data are available, we find that transfers made possible by the school - choice program overwhelmingly improve integration in the public schools that students leave (the sending schools), bringing the racial composition of the schools closer to that of the broader communities in which they are located.

Through Reimagining Integration, Teitel is calling for schools to go beyond «desegregation» — what he calls «body counts» of students from different backgrounds — to true racial and socioeconomical iIntegration, Teitel is calling for schools to go beyond «desegregation» — what he calls «body counts» of students from different backgrounds — to true racial and socioeconomical integrationintegration.

The new law calls for replicating magnet school programs that demonstrate «success in increasing student academic achievement and reducing isolation of minority groups» and «increase racial integration by taking into account socioeconomic diversity.»

Instead, they should emphasize racial and social - class integration, cross-cultural understandings to prepare children for a global society and greater equality.

In the post, you state that schools should «emphasize racial and social - class integration, cross-cultural understandings to prepare children for a global society and greater equality».

It was a neighborhood school and a magnet school, part of LAUSD's voluntary integration program, for black and Latino children living in parts of the city beleaguered by poverty, violence, and other harms of racial isolation.

Soon after Brown's federal desegregation orders, North Carolina's lawmakers developed the Pearsall Plan, which, according to the North Carolina Division of Non-Public Education's website, «was essentially a voucher program to provide funding for student attendance at non-public schools in order to avoid anticipated racial strife envisioned as a result of the public school integration mandate.»

They contend that North Carolina's charter schools have become a way for white parents to secede from the public school system, as they once did to escape racial integration orders.

While the report suggests the numbers of racial minorities in charters should be higher, it's more important for charter schools to support socioeconomic integration and for students to be exposed to other students from all racial and ethnic backgrounds.

Racial Integration, Peer Relationships and Achievement Among White Students and Students of Color,» Sabrina Zirkel writes, «Desegregated schools do produce more successful educational and professional outcomes for students of color.

In fact, charters allow for more economic and racial integration precisely because they don't have school boundaries.

Proponents jumped on board the campaign with all sorts of promises that the standards were a civil rights cause, declaring them to be «Brown 2.0 ″ for education — a reference to Brown vs. Board of Education, the landmark Supreme Court case mandating racial integration in public schools.

Beginning with Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, nationwide efforts to dismantle segregation and integrate schools through anti-discrimination lawsuits, although modestly successful on occasion, have ultimately foundered, producing neither dramatic racial integration nor significant improvements in academic outcomes for black students.

Rising levels of racial diversity bring many opportunities for integration, but a key challenge will be to ensure that metros and districts that become diverse remain diverse — and do not resegregate.

The ACLU Racial Justice Program, along with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and the Center for Children's Advocacy is currently working to continue these advancements in integration in Hartford.

The study offers several recommendations for restoring equity provisions and integration in charter schools, including establishing new guidance and reporting requirements by the Federal government; federal funding opportunities for magnet schools, which have a documented legacy of reducing racial isolation and improving student outcomes; and incorporating some features of magnet schools into charter schools.

Numerous studies have found that racial integration in public schools is important to producing good citizens who can thrive in a multiracial democracy (see, for example, Wells & Crain, 1994).

Data shows that choice also has a positive fiscal effect for taxpayers, a positive racial integration effect, and promotes civic values.

This literature review, developed by Dr. Erica Frankenberg for the IDRA EAC - South, surveys the landscape of K - 12 integration strategies to understand what is being implemented and what we know about the design and implementation of such policies that might create more diverse schools and reduce racial isolation.

Other research questions regarding voucher program participants have included student safety, parent satisfaction, racial integration, services for students with disabilities, and outcomes related to civic participation and values.

Earlier this year, the President proposed a $ 120 million program called «Stronger Together» that awards grants to school districts for efforts to integrate their student populations voluntarily by socioeconomic levels, which often results in racial integration as well.

A study released in November by Harvard Law School's Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice took a look at eight major inter-district integration programs across the country and concluded that Choice is Yours had «perhaps the most impressive system of outreach for students and families crossing school district boundaries — as well as racial, social - class and cultural boundaries.»

Diverse charter schools: Can racial and socioeconomic integration promote better outcomes for students?

Suburban residents can also join the lottery for places in the interdistrict magnet schools, which reserve a certain number of seats for suburban residents to help facilitate racial and socioeconomic integration [12].

It is necessary for LAUSD magnet high schools to put more effort into achieving racial integration so that students who attend these schools can benefit from integration and so that racial relations in society may be improved.

As a result, redrawing zone lines could allow for more students of different racial and socio economic backgrounds to be included and create the possibility of integration (Saporito and Van Riper 2015).

This improvement in test scores is attributed to the fact that racial and socioeconomic integration creates more equitable access to experienced teachers, good facilities, more challenging curriculum, and more funding for students (Wells et al. 2016).