Sentences with phrase «inequities because»

I think greenfield has the opportunity to help combat inequities because it is going to create an opportunity to leverage expertise and talent and tools in those places where they're most needed.

«I didn't always see the inequities because I went to a great school.

As Loveless explains, «critics argue that tracking creates or reinforces social inequities because black, Hispanic, and socioeconomically disadvantaged students are historically underrepresented in accelerated tracks.»

Our position must be renegotiated to address these inequities because right now free trade with China is a myth.»

They learn from reliable research that ability grouping is a major contributor to such inequity because the low ability students get few opportunities to learn the skills of mathematical problem solving and they internalize the modest expectations their teachers have of them.

The LCFF has reduced some of this inequity because charters are now funded in much the same way other public schools are.

• Whether there will be a resulting inequity because the paying spouse will possibly be discharged from bankruptcy (and thus released from his or her equalization obligation, which was a topic I have written about previously [RA add link to prior article on bankruptcy]-RRB-

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But the optimism around supposedly objective algorithms has been challenged in recent years by evidence that some automated systems amplify bias because they're trained on data reflecting historical inequities.

I think the court that WCT has now is the best ever, because, among other things, it does away with those kinds of inequities.»

Inequities between struggling students who have no access to help with homework and students from privileged families who perform better only because they have help from parents or tutors need to be addressed.

I get profoundly overwhelmed; inequities and their intersectionality are terrifying to me because I can not fix them and they require very hard conversations.

You recognize there is inequity in how women are treated during pregnancy because of race, ethnicity, religion, income and education levels.

Mr Clegg faced embarrassment yesterday when delegates at the party's conference in Liverpool approved a motion rejecting free schools because they would lead to «increasing social divisiveness and inequity».

This led to what the state referred to as «taxpayer inequity» because taxpayers residing outside of the Village of Saranac Lake did not receive all the benefit they should have from those revenues.

Free schools rejected On free schools, it said the party should «urge people not to take up this option» because it would lead to «increasing social divisiveness and inequity».

Not only is this unfair, but the inequity that comes about because of the division between safe seats and marginal seats also has a corrosive effect on democracy.

Because of this inequity, online shopping can always be a bit hit or miss — you just never know what you're going to get and don't have the luxury of trying a garment on before buying.

«There are so many people hurting around the world because of social, economic, inequality and inequity.

In far too many situations, educators fail to address inequity and harassment perpetrated against sexual minority youth because they themselves have received no training or support in how to address such issues and may even see these issues as being private matters that are better dealt with in the home.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Vermont asserts in the case that the finance system is unconstitutional because the state's system of relying on local property taxes creates inequities in the classroom.

I joined service organizations at Georgetown because I saw injustice and inequity in the world.

Moreover, inequities will arise simply because measured gains are more dependable for schools and teachers for whom there are more data.

Nearly a year ago, the state supreme court declared in Claremont School District v. Governor that New Hampshire's method of using local property taxes to pay for education violated the state constitution because it allowed for finance inequities between districts.

Because of this inequity, the formula distributes more dollars to student groups in low - income school districts.

Our teachers worked hard and loved their students, but I don't think they gave much thought to the inequity of our system because it was all they ever knew.»

Because pension contributions are made as a percentage of salary, teacher pension systems mirror and amplify any inequities in the way teachers are distributed among schools.

Because the San Francisco Unified School District does not keep track of donations to PTAs, parents and educators have not had an accurate picture of how they factor into inequities among individual schools.

Average district per - pupil spending does not always capture staffing and funding inequities.14 Many districts do not consider actual teacher salaries when budgeting for and reporting each school's expenditures, and the highest - poverty schools are often staffed by less - experienced teachers who typically earn lower salaries.15 Because educator salaries are, by far, schools» largest budget item, schools serving the poorest children end up spending much less on what matters most for their students» learning.

If we realize that the reasons we don't send our kids to our neighborhood school are because massive inequities exist there, then we have to do something about it.

This month, a dozen civil rights groups, including the N.A.A.C.P. and the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, released a statement saying they were opposed to «anti-testing efforts» because tests provide data crucial for catching and combating inequities in public schools.

Because of mass class inequities, you will not be offered opportunities to succeed in life.

Because of increased segregation and enduring educational inequities, the pipeline for teacher preparation programs is too narrow.

North Carolina has been engaged in litigation defending its system of school finance for nearly twenty years, which was partially instigated because of spending inequities between low wealth and wealthy counties.

We demonstrate that much of the inequity in teacher value added in Washington state is due to differences across different districts, so studies that only investigate inequities within districts likely understate the overall inequity in the distribution of teacher effectiveness because they miss one of the primary sources of this inequity.

This inequity has lasted for 15 years and continues today, largely because New York's charter schools, unlike all other public schools, have not received funding for facilities.

But structural inequities in the LCFF prohibit many charter schools from receiving concentration grants for all of their neediest students, because their concentration grant funding is capped at the district average.

These inequities are often more significant than reported, because charter schools do not have equitable access to facilities or facilities funding, and often must pay for facilities out of their general operating funds.

This was in part because teachers deemed their students too young to understand political inequities, but also because teachers themselves did not want to embrace a «critical stance» toward the material they taught.

Funding inequities for vulnerable children remain, and we must close this gap because money matters, especially to students from low - income families.

I would cheer because it would remove a huge, unfair inequity in the process.

For Scanlan, the attention garnered by this project — and granted only because of the basic conditions of inequity within the exhibition and the art world — situates him to accrue benefits to his profile and market value commensurate with his position of privilege.

«Egalitarian communitarians,» by the same logic, readily embrace the most dire climate - change forecasts because they perceive exactly the same thing but take delight at the prospect of radical limits on commerce, industry, and markets, which in their eyes are the source of myriad social inequities.

We are just as much concerned with inequities in Appalachia, for example, where white people are basically dumped on because of lack of economic and political clout and lack of having a voice to say «no.»

It is getting to the point where it would probably be easy to program a bot to find all of the stories about the gender inequities in the legal profession because they occur with depressing regularity.

This puts tremendous pressure on a law firm's compensation system, he explains, because you may end up paying large sums to retain people who are being courted, thus creating internal inequities in your partner compensation scheme.

Due to neglect and lack of capacity to secure justice because of structural inequities, cultural dissonance, discrimination and economic and political marginalization, indigenous and tribal peoples have suffered disproportionately from the negative impacts of large dams, while often being excluded from sharing in the benefits.

Tackling inequities in children's outcomes matters both from a moral perspective, and because of persuasive social and economic arguments.