Sentences with phrase «increased economic segregation»

«The growing income gap and increased economic segregation may lead to inequalities in children's test scores, educational attainment, and well - being,» Owens said.

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The use of interdistrict - choice programs is unlikely to increase most students» educational opportunities significantly, a new report concludes, despite recent attention to the idea as a means of reducing economic and racial segregation and giving students in low - performing public schools a chance to find a better school.

The trend of increasing racial and economic segregation is a nationwide trend — not just in Alabama and other Southern states.55 The South, however, was the only region in the country to see a net increase in private school enrollment between 1960 and 2000, and where private school enrollment is higher, support for spending in public schools tends to be lower.56 A growing body of rigorous research shows that money absolutely matters for public schools, especially for the students from low - income families who attend them.57 What's more, private schools in the South tend to have the largest overrepresentation of white students.58 In fact, research has shown that the strongest predictor of white private school enrollment is the proportion of black students in the local public schools.59

The recent literature on economic segregation lists some specific drivers of increased isolationism, and the authors look at those topics in turn.

What isn't mentioned here, but has been by the UCLA Civil Rights Project, is that the most widely used mechanism of «choice» in the state, that is charter schools, has increased economic and ethnic segregation in the schools (see its study).

Difference is, the Sheff efforts are rooted in Brown vs. Board of Education and other Civil Rights legislation, whereas the Common Core and other «reformy» actions are untried ploys that ultimately will increase the racial and economic segregation of our Two Connecticuts and further widen the achievement gap for our students.

b. Charter schools have become for - profit business opportunities and have increased racial and economic segregation in our nation.

«At a moment in our history when we confront significant economic inequalities, distressing racial tensions, increasing segregation and crucial questions about immigration, the passage of tepid legislation that addresses none of these issues is not a cause for celebration.»