Sentences with phrase «inequity facing»

And just this year, the New York City Independent Budget Office (no friend of charters) used a different analysis, but found an even greater inequity facing the city's existing charter schools: the lack of funding for facilities.

At 10:30 a.m., Reps. Carolyn Maloney, Charles Rangel and Gregory Meeks, with Congressional Black Caucus Chairman G. K. Butterfield, hold a public forum on the impact of economic challenges and persistent inequities facing African Americans across the country, Harlem Hospital Center, 506 Malcolm X Blvd., Manhattan.

Jessica Yeh, Ph.D., associate professor of medicine in the General Internal Medicine Divisionand core faculty member at the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research, has been selected to join the American Diabetes Association's National Health Disparities Committee, which serves as an advisory and steering committee for the association's work on reducing inequities facing populations disparately affected by diabetes.

The foundation says this will be the largest single investment dedicated solely to addressing inequities faced by young female minorities in the United States.

And the addition of a portability provision for Title I funds might actually exacerbate the inequities faced by disadvantaged students and schools — the very inequities ESEA seeks to remedy.

Just as Guggenheim's previous documentary raised concerns about the environment, his latest production has brought attention to the inequities facing America's schoolchildren.

In states like Florida, New Mexico and Maryland, where ratings are based entirely on school - wide averages, the performance of individual student groups, and the educational disparities and inequities they face, are largely ignored.

«The Republican agenda in Washington doesn't even scratch the surface of the inequities facing more than a million children in our public schools,» he said in an e-mailed statement.

Ehab Jaleel, executive director of Amana Academy, discussed facilities funding inequities facing Georgia charter schools and offered solutions to address the issue.

There are still many inequities facing public charter school students in Connecticut — including a sizable difference in per - pupil funding — but, common - sense collaborations like these can help close that gap and give more children access to quality public schools.

Ensuring that families have open, safe lines of communication with district leaders provides a platform for family voices to be heard and valued in a district's plans to address the real inequities facing their unique community.

Not exact matches

Nonetheless, here are five challenges you may find yourself facing and how you can lead from your strengths, stay in alignment with who you and overcome inequities to thrive in entrepreneurial land.

No Christian writer of the New Testament, so far as our records reveal, ever faced the responsibility of applying high moral principles to preserving the institutions of society, administering governments, handling international relationships, prosecuting social reforms, or even mitigating by public measures the inequities of an economic system.1

In the face of social inequities he rests his reform program primarily on his own example (5:10 - 19).

According to utz.com «The Rainforest Alliance and UTZ have merged in response to the critical challenges facing humanity: deforestation, climate change, systemic poverty, and social inequity.

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».

«There have been relatively few studies addressing the sexual and reproductive health of lesbian and bisexual women, but these findings reveal that sexual minority women do face inequities in fertility care.

«In contrast to some of the other challenges that women in academia face, service is an area of inequity that can be addressed relatively easily within institutions hoping to improve gender balance.,» Guarino said.

Then I will roll up my sleeves and find ways to act in solidarity, address the massive inequities some communities face and work to create more justice in the world.

Our ultimate aim is to catalyze substantially greater impacts on the lives of young children whose needs are not addressed adequately by existing programs, with a strong emphasis on those who face the cumulative burdens of economic hardship, limited parent education, racial or ethnic discrimination, and other sources of structural inequity.

To date, lawmakers have not passed a budget that includes charter schools in a funding formula fix or addresses the inequities charter schools face — a point not lost on Charter Awareness Day participants.

We should be fighting together for all children, yet charters face constant, unprovoked attacks on even the most incremental efforts to address the charter funding inequity — even in years when we see major increases for district schools.

IEL stands up for the causes of those in high - potential communities who fight to provide opportunity in the face of poverty, trauma, and inequity.

Report Roundup: Teacher Job Satisfaction Plummets and Minority Students Face Deep Inequities

This spring, the new governor has outlined an ambitious plan to address the inequities, but it faces opposition at the statehouse.

Under the law, all public school students — including charter school students — have the right to access quality publicly funded school facilities, yet year after year, charters face uncertainty and inequity when it comes to identifying and securing facilities for their staff, students and families.»

«Over the past 20 years, charter schools have transformed the lives of millions of students, and although we continue to face challenges, like funding inequity and facilities issues, we have become the answer for families looking for a quality education for their children.»

Will you focus, as educators are focused, on the civil rights of all children, regardless of their zip code, by challenging the inequities so many face in equal access to programs, services and support?

Facing challenges to improve teaching and learning in the current context of high - stakes testing and accountability and as they contend with discrimination, inequities and injustices in the status quo, effective school leaders approach their work through a social justice lens.

As Connecticut faces tough budgetary decisions, increasing student needs, and significant inequity across the state, we can not continue to push fixing our school finance system further down the road.

Tackling such deep structural inequities as segregation and resource allocation is likely necessary to really address school discipline disparities — lest we face yet another instance of educators being asked to throw local solutions at systemic problems.

Leadership pipelines and historical knowledge are critical to running a district, to establishing the relationships needed to make changes that last and to truly tackling the biggest and stickiest problems of inequity that districts face.

Center researchers often design formative assessment techniques, as well as new teaching and learning approaches for and study innovations in settings where students face challenges of poverty and other inequities.

Students from low - income households and students of color face staggering academic inequities, with limited access to high - performing schools and college preparatory experiences.

In the face of all of this inequity and opposition, the movement for racial and economic justice endures.

SBHCs meet a critical need for students, and are considered to be a preventive approach to addressing the disproportionate barriers to academic success our students face; the byproduct of much larger societal issues rooted in racial inequity.

In a post entitled, «U.S. has the world's most educated workforce — but students face unparalleled levels of poverty, inequity and violence,» Jonathan Kantrowitz has written an extraordinary and profound piece about the real problems that are causing the growing educational achievement gap in the United States.

Every day, students who identify as Asian & Pacific Islander American (APIA) face the injustice of educational inequity in classrooms across the nation.

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Starting a new charter school isn't for the faint of heart especially when you consider the inequity the schools face in their funding.

With only a few short weeks left this legislative session, lawmakers still have not passed a budget that includes charter schools in a funding formula fix or addresses the inequities charter schools face — a point not lost on Charter Awareness Day participants.

I witnessed the same inequities I saw in my classroom, but I faced them on a far greater scale, both in terms of impact and reach.

My friend is putting a human face on the same question the authors of the AERA report asked: «Shall we tinker with complexity levels while overlooking the egregious educational inequities and scandalous socioeconomic conditions that researchers have demonstrated are persisted causes of low academic performance?

Wilson and Piper use performative embodiment to explore ideas of otherness and manipulate masculinity, drawing attention to the inequities that women artists faced at the time these works were produced.

The title of Jemison's novella and exhibition, in tandem with her mining of historical materials, seems to offer the possibility that the seeds of change planted in the past are still viable and ripe for harvest as we imagine what the future can be in the face of ongoing institutionalized racism and systemic inequity.

Greg Lindquist constructs an image cycle of social inequity in the face of environmental desecration, playing a requiem above a baseline of spoilt nature caused by corporate self - interest.

Greg Lindquist, a painter and regular Brooklyn Rail contributor, constructs an image cycle of social inequity in the face of environmental desecration, playing a requiem above a baseline of spoilt nature caused by corporate self - interest.

The drawings capitalize on America's propensity for nostalgia and decorum, luring the viewer into facing these inequities through the detached lens of that which has already happened.

Mary Evelyn Tucker, one of the most eloquent voices of the eco-spiritual movement, spoke at the U.N. about the daunting challenges faced by 21st - century humanitarians: widespread environmental degradation, crippling poverty, social inequities and unrestrained militarism.

Bubup Wilam supports families by assisting them to address the complex issues they face as a result of social inequities manifested by the oppressed position Aboriginal people hold in this country.