Sentences with phrase «income segregation as»

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«Instead of the old high rise, concentrated projects that tend to put minorities in poor communities and increase segregation, we should have... smaller scaled scatter sites [with] mixed income so middle class people see this as a good option.»

I'm talking about high quality housing that's mixed income - which will help reduce segregation - that's humanly scaled on scattered sites, not concentrated in high - rises, is built in the suburbs as well as the cities, in all neighborhoods in the cities, and is green.»

Hawkins would fight housing segregation with stronger enforcement of existing fair housing laws, a state law banning discrimination based on source of income such as Section 8 housing vouchers, and a state inclusionary zoning law to require a mix of low - income, moderate - income, and market rate units in new or substantially rehabilitated housing developments.

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 wiIncome 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 wiincome segregation between neighborhoods was nearly twice as high among households that have children compared to those without.

In the absence of race - based constraints, some reform efforts that aim to improve school quality, such as charter schools, open enrollment, magnet schools, and vouchers, may intensify segregation by income, race, or achievement (see «A Closer Look at Charter Schools and Segregation,» check the facts, Susegregation by income, race, or achievement (see «A Closer Look at Charter Schools and Segregation,» check the facts, SuSegregation,» check the facts, Summer 2010).

«Residential mobility has brought about a high degree of racial segregation in education, as well as segregation by income... and it is the disadvantaged who are least able to select a school... that continues to function reasonably well.»

Segregation by race and income continues to menace our public schools, as does inequitable allocation of resources.

Since economic segregation closely mirrors racial segregation, integrating schools by income will help create racial and ethnic diversity as well, and this form of diversity produces numerous benefits.

As it stands now, not a single state publishes annual reports on the levels of income diversity and segregation within their schools and districts.

In other words, promoting school choice as the solution is a distraction from the basic fact that parent income, along with interrelated racial and economic segregation, remain powerful determinants in the quality of education a child receives.

A report released by the UCLA Civil Rights Project confirms this unfortunate reality, that a majority of AfricanAmerican and Latino students now attend schools that are predominately low - income and non-white, leading to what researchers define as «double segregation.»

«Neither of those appear to have been considered to date as we have significant segregation by race as well as income, special needs and Limited English Proficiency between charter schools and their sending districts, and we have charter schools draining necessary resources from public school districts,» she said.

The committee suggested, therefore, that we should «be at least as concerned about segregation by income as segregation by race.»

Inequalities of wealth and income have risen steadily for three decades, racial segregation continues, class segregation has deepened, and middle and working class families are fracturing in the face of this economic onslaught, but rather than face these fundamental realities politicians keep pandering to the public and putting forth an endless stream of quick fixes that don't cost any money and don't require real change & mdash as if cosmetic changes in schools are somehow going to offset decades of disinvestment in the public sphere and rising concentrations of poverty.

That economic diversity is a core value of the school, Densen told Gambit in December in a broad article about the 4.0 Schools project, as he seeks to create a learning environment inclusive of all income levels that bridges the gap between New Orleans» often rigid segregation between tuition - based private schools and impoverished public schools.

Given how much educational inequity is linked to factors outside the education system, such as growing income inequality and housing segregation, it may be asking too much of schools to expect them to single - handedly eliminate the effects of these inequities.

And, as documented by Owens, Reardon and Jencks (2016) income segregation within the largest school districts increased by 40 percent between 1990 and 2012.

New York city district administrators, therefore, now face the challenge of drawing and redrawing school zones as they try to find a balance between this intense segregation in these schools, the influx of white middle and upper - class families as gentrifiers, and the low - income minority families already in the neighborhood.

In UCLA's study about New York State school segregation, Kuscera and Orfield write, «data also indicate that as a school becomes more minority, the school will also become more low - income and, as such, is twice as likely to exhibit educational opportunities and outcomes.»