Sentences with phrase «from neighborhood segregation»

However, if the concentration of minority or low - income students in a school results from the purposeful choices of parents rather than from neighborhood segregation, the adverse effects may be fewer.

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A recent report finds Syracuse and Onondaga County suffer from «hyper - segregation,» where minorities are mostly confined to a few, low - income neighborhoods.

Income segregation between neighborhoods rose 20 percent from 1990 to 2010, and income segregation between neighborhoods was nearly twice as high among households that have children compared to those without.

A silver lining, Kye said, is that the level of suburban segregation for most minority groups had stopped increasing and began instead to decrease from 1990 to 2010 — except for African American neighborhoods.

About the Report This report examines a decade of resegregation from the time of the Supreme Court's 1991 Dowell decision, which allowed school districts to declare themselves unitary, end their desegregation plans, and to return to neighborhood school plans that produce intense segregation and inequality clearly visible in educational opportunities and outcomes.

Based on a review of existing literature, it argues that the best way to address rising school segregation is to decouple school assignment from neighborhoods through universal school choice.

Weingarten's cynical attempt to flip the definition of segregation, which has always referred to systemic efforts to exclude minorities from schools, neighborhoods, and elsewhere, is particularly hypocritical in light of the Wall Street Journal's revelations about UFT Charter School.

These methods to prevent blacks from living in white neighborhoods resulted in the segregation of neighborhoods that have had crippling effects for minorities in the U.S, such as increased poverty, poorer health, and higher exposure to violent crime (Bethea 2013).

In this timely analysis, Murray argues that a worsening class divide has resulted in the segregation of elites, living in «SuperZips,» from those with little education, eking out a living in poor neighborhoods.

However, de jure segregation can also refer to codes and standards set up among private organizations — for example, in the early 20th century, the National Association of Real Estate Boards included in its code of ethics a rule prohibiting its members from selling houses in white neighborhoods to black homebuyers.