Sentences with phrase «on racial balance»

The school board in Montgomery County, an affluent suburb of Washington noted for the quality of its schools and its voluntary efforts at integration, «violated its own regulations and procedures» on racial balance and building use in the cases of four schools, said Mitchell J. Cooper, a Washington lawyer acting as adviser to the state board.

The dust has barely settled on the two school cases decided last week by the Supreme Court — one on student speech and the other on racial balancing — and already their impact is beginning to emerge.

Not exact matches

«A feeling that the ethnic, racial and religious pressures, whatever they are, are such that a man would be disposed to prejudge a situation on the basis of his heritage and not make an altogether balanced determination.»

He was also floated as a primary challenger to either state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli or Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and also as a LG running mate for Cuomo — both of which he rejected, although his presence on the ticket would have gone a long way toward adding some racial balance and quelling the concerns of black and Latino leaders.

Four years ago, Duffy, then the mayor of Rochester, was selected to be Cuomo's number two on the ticket, providing geographic balance at the expense of gender and racial diversity.

While there's been some focus this morning on the fact that Andrew Cuomo defied a lingering expectation that he'd pick an African - American or Hispanic as his LG, Democratic strategist Hank Sheinkopf suggested that the geographic and religious balance, over racial and gender balance, are what the likely next governor needed for election purposes.

Two years later, the winter 1964 — 1965 issue was devoted to «education and race relations» and included essays on social psychology and racial balance and another look at Prince Edward County, this time by Neil Sullivan, Ed.D.» 57, a New York superintendent who took a leave of absence in 1963 to become superintendent — at the request of then - attorney general Robert Kennedy — of a privately funded Prince Edward Free School.

Drawing on an evaluation of the Montclair model and other research, the report concludes that school - choice plans based on magnet schools «appear most promising in meeting the educational goals of achieving racial balance, providing quality education, and offering diverse educational programs.»

District court judges took this to mean that desegregation orders must be revised on a regular basis to ensure racial balance.

In each case, the school district relies upon an individual student's race in assigning that student to a particular school, so that the racial balance at the school falls within a predetermined range based on the racial composition of the school district as a whole.

For instance, the racial composition of the school age population of the entirety of New York City has little relevance to concerns about and efforts to improve the racial balance of schools on Staten Island, which by virtue of its geography might as well be a part of New Jersey.

We need to know whether it is practically possible to improve the racial balance of a school, and this depends on comparison with local demographics.

I am focusing on magnet schools in this essay because these schools are designed to have a specific racial balance in order to achieve the goal of desegregating Connecticut's public schools, yet demographics play out differently depending on the school, and some schools are struggling to maintain their required desegregation standards.

8 This is not because race and socioeconomic status don't matter anymore; on the contrary, there is still a great deal of variation in racial balance even in Connecticut choice schools.

Titles were selected based on criteria including readability, racial and cultural diversity, balance of viewpoints, variety of formats and genres, and title availability.

When curator Simon Njami first travelled to South Africa, in 1993, to work on an issue of the magazine Revue Noire, his editorial team engaged in this sensitive form of human arithmetic — «to make sure that a racial balance had been achieved.»

As employment experts, they all knew that, at her last outing on equality, she had pretty well alleged exactly that, concluding: «So do we need to revive the argument for some special provision, akin to that in Northern Ireland, to enable the appointing commissions to take racial or gender balance into account when making their appointments?

Thankfully, Canadian law relating to the elements required to establish defamation as well as the required elements to establish discrimination and hate speech are notably distinct from the U.S.A, and in these areas better reflect international human rights standards on the balance that should be struck between freedom of expression and the right to be free of both defamation and racial discrimination.