Sentences with phrase «inequitable educational»
This committee has been charged with using the four tools of Cultural Proficiency to address inequitable educational outcomes that continue to fuel achievement gaps.
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Federal courts should insist that states design their education systems to accomplish the aims of the right to education — be they ending inequitable disparities in educational opportunity, preparing students to be competent voters and civic participants, or ensuring that students are equal citizens.
He said, «Rethinking policies around seat - time requirements, class size, compensating teachers based on their educational credentials, the use of technology in the classroom, inequitable school financing, the over placement of students in special education — almost all of these potentially transformative productivity gains are primarily state and local issues that have to be grappled with.»
Ayers supports smaller schools that would be more sensitive to the strengths and weaknesses of local communities, believing they offer the best prospect for addressing «the inequitable distribution of educational resources» and «the capacity of a range of self - interested bureaucracies to work against the common good.»
The same footnote that contains those citations also offers OCR's most questionable legal argument: «Numerous State courts have also deemed inequitable access to these educational resources unlawful under their State constitutions.»
Because public charter schools» per - pupil funding is often inequitable compared to that of traditional public schools (about 75 - 80 % on average when compared to traditional schools nationwide), virtually all charter schools must use operational funding — money which otherwise would go towards educational purposes and classroom teaching and learning — to cover capital budget shortfalls.
The segregated state of our schools helps maintain the inequitable funding that determines families» educational options.
He said, «Rethinking policies around seat - time requirements, class size, compensating teachers based on their educational credentials, the use of technology in the classroom, inequitable school financing, the over-placement of students in special education — almost all of these potentially transformative productivity gains are primarily state and local issues that have to be grappled with.»
While it is absolutely true that educational opportunity, like economic opportunity, is unequally distributed by race and class, the solutions for that are not going to be found by rigging cut scores but rather by substantially addressing something education reformers today generally discount: inequitable and inadequate school funding.
Like all the other governors listed here, Cuomo has chosen to ignore the real reasons for educational problems: poverty, segregation and inequitable distribution of resources and has focused his sights on those miscreant teachers, who have only dedicated their lives to working with children.
We agree with Senator Corman and most strongly urge the legislature to hold public hearings on the impact that inadequate and inequitable state education funding has on educational opportunities available to poor minority children and on schools» ability to offer all students quality CTE opportunities.
We can not solve the problem of educational inequity while we ignore the inequitable and inadequate resources available to low - income children in their homes and communities, as well as their schools.
In the current legislative climate, it is too risky to pass laws that fail to address the «core» issues impacting the inequitable distribution of educational opportunities across our state and nation.