Sentences with phrase «housing desegregation»

Narrowing the achievement gap will require housing desegregation: voiding exclusionary zoning, placing low - and moderate - income housing in predominantly white suburbs, and ending federal subsidies for communities that fail to reverse policies that led to racial exclusion.

Cuomo's campaign noted that Astorino also is involved in a federal investigation involving housing desegregation in Westchester County.

Hawkins says that Rob Astorino's record as County Executive in the Westchester housing desegregation dispute with the federal government shows that he would be unqualified to resolve this problem statewide.

He said Rob Astorino's views on abortion, immigration and housing desegregation make him too conservative to lead New York.

Not exact matches

«This new public housing program will be a jobs program, a desegregation program, and a clean energy program as well as an affordable housing program.

Hawkins» platform includes tax reform that would create a city income tax, anti-poverty initiatives, state - supported worker co-ops for poor and working - class people, public ownership of utilities and desegregation of schools and housing.

In a Washington Times op - ed last year, Carson sharply criticized HUD's Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing program, designed to incentivize desegregation - based planning in the nation's cities, calling it a «mandated social - engineering scheme.»

«So it would be a jobs program, and affordable housing program and energy program as well as a desegregation program.»

In recent weeks, Mayor Bill de Blasio's policies have run up against an age - old forces of inertia and resistance in the city, especially one that springs forth in policy debates on everything from housing to bike lanes to school desegregation and even closing down Rikers Island jails.

This meant that in the North and Midwest especially, exclusive white suburbs were exempted from desegregation, even if their zoning and other housing policies had contributed to segregation in the region.

Desegregation programs in some cities prompted «white flight,» although over the long run it appears to have had only a small effect on housing patterns in most communities.

Today, questions about the effects of changes in housing patterns and recent Supreme Court decisions that weaken desegregation efforts remain central to discussions of educational opportunity and racial achievement gaps.

Under the terms of a court settlement reached with the aid of a nationally known desegregation researcher, the San Francisco Unified School District will open a currently unused facility to house the entire student body of a magnet middle school affected by the district's asbestos - cleanup program.

The Justice and Education departments still have not determined how to address existing desegregation cases — and whether or where to bring new ones — and have received little guidance from the White House in crafting civil - rights policy, the Citizens» Commission on Civil Rights, a bipartisan panel of former federal civil - rights officials and other advocates, says in a report released last week.

Further research has shown that the desegregation of schools can help bring adult communities together by reducing segregated housing.

Although social scientists often have found a link between housing segregation and school segregation, few school systems around the country have been willing, as Palm Beach County has, to attack both problems at once, desegregation experts said last week.

The 74 As House Takes up Education Funding Bill, Lawmakers Offer Bevy of Amendments, From Autism to Desegregation

In addition to scholarly work, he has served as expert witness or special master in more than three dozen class action civil rights cases, on school desegregation, housing discrimination and other issues, and as consultant to many school districts, federal, state and local governments, civil rights groups and teachers organizations.

Complete the education requirements: Real Estate Principles and Practices (40 hours) Ohio Real Estate Law, including instruction in civil rights, housing discrimination and desegregation problems (40 hours) Real Estate Appraisal (20 hours) Real Estate Finance (20 hours) Please note: Any person who has not been licensed as a real estate salesperson or broker within a four - year period immediately preceding his / her current application for the salesperson's exam must have completed the above classroom instruction within a 10 - year period immediately preceding the current salesperson application.