Sentences with phrase «of income segregation»

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Price segregation allows vital drugs to be provided at cost (or closer to it) for low - income nations, while American customers pay high enough prices to fund research and development of new medications.

On the housing segregation by income and class, I would much prefer to use analogies with the Parisian suburbs, gated communities, and (perhaps over-dramatically) the social stratification of Dickensian London, or (most accurately) the electoral gerrymandering of Shirley Porter.

Because there is no mandated amount of low - income housing, Williams said the plan will keep the city's historic housing segregation intact.

«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.»

Ms. Brewer, normally a de Blasio ally, embraced the mandatory inclusionary zoning plan with major caveats: namely, requirements that would limit the tallest buildings to the widest streets, steps to preserve rowhouse blocks, a ban on any kind of segregation by income in the new buildings and expanding the program to encompass both more low and more middle - income earners.

We need to address the root causes of low - performing students and schools in poverty, segregation, and underfunding schools in low - income communities,» said Hawkins.

Income segregation among black and Latino families is now much higher than among white families, which means that low - income communities of color suffer more than ever from a double segregation by race and Income segregation among black and Latino families is now much higher than among white families, which means that low - income communities of color suffer more than ever from a double segregation by race and income communities of color suffer more than ever from a double segregation by race and class.

Segregation by class is also high and growing in New York State, which has the highest income inequality of any state in the nation.

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.

«If schools play an important role in residential segregation, then breaking that link and making it less important and sort of alleviating parents» concerns about where their kids are going to attend school would reduce income segregation,» Owens said.

«Neighborhood and school poverty are big drivers of low - income kids» poor educational outcomes, so rising income segregation perpetuates inequality and may reduce poor kids» mobility.»

The current lack of harmonization among these financing mechanisms leads to gaps in ECE affordability for some low - income families, economic segregation within ECE settings and classrooms, and underutilization of ECE services by middle - income families.

High levels of residential segregation have been linked to lower levels of income mobility across generations.

However, if the concentration of minority or low - income students in a school results from the purposeful choices of parents rather than from neighborhood segregation, the adverse effects may be fewer.

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).

All the while, metropolitan areas were changing rapidly, with middle - income whites leaving cities in droves and moving to all - white suburbs, which often excluded minority residents through a host of devices intentionally designed to promote housing segregation.

At least since the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954, this has been interpreted to give the federal government the power to intervene in cases of legally sanctioned discrimination, like the segregation of public schools across the country; to mandate equal access to education for students with disabilities; and, according to some arguments, to correct for persistently unequal access to resources across states and districts of different income levels.

«This is what we are talking about when we look at interaction between race and neighborhood — it's something not explained by income but explained by the segregation of neighborhoods,» he said, adding that the problem is so tenacious that it affects generation after generation of African Americans.

John Eligon and Robert Gebeloff penned a terrific though sobering analysis of the combination of policies contributing to residential segregation by race, irrespective of income.

«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.»

In fact, the Smithfield report finds that, although income segregation rose from 1991 to 1993, it was still lower than in 1990, the final year of zoning.

Although segregation increased in the worst schools, the net effect of low - income children's attending schools outside their zones was to decrease segregation.

On the first two «costs» the book provides no evidence of harm, other than summary statements about segregation, expressing concern that «education programs that serve low - income and minority students have become quite different from those that serve the rest of the student population,» (p. 225) and that «charter schools have moved the country farther away from the collective and democratic forms of education.»

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

Disparate educational outcomes in Virginia are facilitated by two overlapping types of segregation: racial and income.

The strongest correlates of achievement gaps are local racial / ethnic differences in parental income, local average parental education levels, and patterns of racial / ethnic segregation, consistent with a theoretical model in which family socioeconomic factors affect educational opportunity partly though residential and school segregation patterns.

«I think what's surprising is that the income gap has narrowed... when some of the underlying conditions — growing income equality and residential segregation — have continued unabated,» Reardon said.

For instance, 22 percent of both low - and high - income Americans deem the issue of school segregation to be «very important» to them.

The growth of housing segregation is also inherently tied to a nationwide rise in income inequality.

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

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.

This design — and the relatively small number of private schools in rural communities — has greatly contributed to this socio - economic segregation.64 Such policies, if adopted nationally in the United States, could have similar consequences for economic and racial segregation considering the strong correlation between race and income in many places.

It is simply insufficient to assign children to schools based solely on where they live; for decades, that type of assignment system has perpetuated both school segregation and racial and income achievement gaps.

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.

While racial achievement gaps in education have remained stubbornly large, segregation has been increasing steadily, creating a growing number of apartheid schools that serve almost exclusively students of color from low - income families.

Rising residential segregation by income has led to increasing concentrations of low - and high - income children attending separate schools.

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.»

These children are overwhelmingly low income, and disproportionately children of color, thus intensifying race and class segregation.

Since people of color are disproportionately lower income and have less «capital» (e.g., down payment for a house), racial segregation also increases.

Many charter schools do not provide these programs (or meals of any kind), resulting in the exclusion of low - income students and increased racial segregation.

The OECD has found that vouchers targeted specifically to low - income families significantly decrease socio - economic segregation between public and private schools compared to vouchers that any family can use, regardless of income.

So while racial residential segregation has been decreasing over the past few decades, it still remains high, and very little of it can be explained by racial differences in income levels.

The figure below provides an illustration of the degree of racial segregation even among households with the same incomes.

«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.

Charters, by severing the tie between residential neighborhood segregation and school segregation, might help reinvent the old idea of the American common school, where students of different races, incomes, and religions could come and learn together under a single schoolhouse roof.

Another oft - stated reservation with charter schools is their unquestionable link to increased segregation of students based on race and income.

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.

Segregation of low - income and ethnic minority students makes closing achievement gaps virtually impossible.

In a 2010 research review, Harvard University's Susan Eaton noted that racial segregation in schools has such a severe impact on the test score - gap that it outweighs the positive effects of a higher family income for minority students.