Sentences with phrase «promote segregation»

One of the silliest critiques of charter schools is that they promote segregation, which is absurd since charters intentionally serve segregated communities.

The usual arguments were put forward; Catholic schools are exclusive, discriminatory, and promote segregation; arguments that the most basic examination would show to be unfounded.

Instead, parents who choose to send their child to a non-neighborhood school (an «unzoned» school in NYC parlance) promote segregation.

Governor Malloy, Commissioner Pryor and the members of the Connecticut General Assembly need put an end to policies that promote segregation.

readers now appreciate, Connecticut's charter schools, and especially Achievement First, Inc., the large charter school management company co-founded by Stefan Pryor, Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education, actively allow, if not promote segregation.

«Many communities have direct local control over processes that can ensure they don't inadvertently promote segregation,» she said.

Will those who actively promote segregation really be handed down a disruption order?

The film has great intentions, and great performances, and tells a story that reminds us how recently our nation still promoted segregation, yet it ultimately doesn't quite do full justice to the bravery and struggle of Jackie Robinson, the first African - American baseball player to join the Major League.

Media tries to prove that Indiana vouchers promoted segregation... found the opposite.

School choice opponents say that «choice» not only siphons resources from traditional systems but also promotes segregation, discriminates against students with the most severe disabilities, and fights against public oversight.

Supporters like the concept, but opponents argue that the proposal promotes segregation.

The growth of charter schools has promoted segregation both in California and nationwide, increasing the odds that black, Latino and white students will attend class with fewer children who look different from themselves, according to two new studies.

Not exact matches

The romantic element was the belief that even as segregation reinforced itself by fortifying racial resentment, ignorance, and antagonism, integration would promote racial tolerance and harmony, evolving steadily from a government policy into a natural inclination.

Two days after releasing his plan on how to promote diversity in the public school system, Mayor Bill de Blasio faced some tough questions Thursday on his approach to addressing racial segregation in the classroom.

Government should never promote projects that continue such segregation, nor incentivize a project that creates even more housing inequity.

Ideas which actively promote discrimination, sectarianism and segregation.

Segregation of this kind within schools reinforces damaging gender stereotypes, and does nothing to promote equality and respect between boys and girls.

«He graduated from Yale Law School and was determined to use his legal skills to right the wrongs of segregation and promote the concept of fundamental fairness and the rule of law,» Heastie in a statement.

He also expressed concern that not enough had been done to promote diversity within developments, echoing fears by some lawmakers that the proposals would encourage segregation.

For many microbes, the expansion of growing cell groups toward a source of limiting nutrients tends to promote the spontaneous segregation of different strains due to genetic drift along the advancing group front [36].

CRL4WDR1 Controls Polo - like Kinase Protein Abundance to Promote Bilobe Duplication, Basal Body Segregation and Flagellum Attachment in Trypanosoma brucei.

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.

Education Justine Greening made a statement on the consultation in the House of Common's and faced criticism from Shadow Education Secretary Angela Rayner, who said that the proposals promoted «segregation, segregation, segregation» and quoted former Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron's comments that it would be «delusional» to think that expanding grammars is a «good idea».

Many critics assert that voucher programs will undermine civic values, promote racial or socio - economic segregation, prompt schools to discriminate based on student ability, and undermine the public commitment to failing schools.

«On balance, voucher programs are more likely to increase school segregation than to promote integration or maintain the status quo,» the first bullet point of the summary solemnly intones.

For centuries, racially discriminatory policies — in both the North and South — separated black and white children and promoted a system of de jure segregation.

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.

«Secretary DeVos continues the sins of school segregation by canceling funds for the Opening Doors grants to promote the proven benefits of school diversity for many schoolchildren of color.»

By working with parents to examine their privilege and understand that their impact matters more than their intentions, Integrated Schools prepares parents to support meaningfully integrated classrooms that reflect the diversity of their district as well as school communities that respect ALL families and are galvanized around supporting ALL children Through national organizing to promote local action, we support, educate, develop and mobilize families to «live their values,» disrupt segregation, and leverage their choices for the well - being and futures for their own children, for all children, and for our democracy.

With the establishment of the Sheff standard for racial integration in 2008, magnet schools have become the state's primary method for reducing racial segregation and promoting integration within the Greater Hartford Region public school system.

Connecticut's system has been hugely successful in its attempts to promote racial integration within schools: In a recent Civil Rights Project report, Gary Orfield, a Distinguished Professor of Education, Law and Political Science and Urban Planning at UCLA, referred to it as «the only successful effort to produce a new legal framework to deal with the reality of metropolitan segregation.»

So, at the same time it continues to promote the growth of charter schools, the Obama administration should take immediate action to reduce the segregation in charter schools, working instead to achieve the integrative promise of charter schools.

Although unintended, the outcome is that the system promotes «De facto racial discrimination» which in turn creates «De facto racial segregation».

Although that movement often deploys the rhetoric of equity and diversity to rationalize itself and enlists compelling, community - based representatives to promote its agenda, that agenda has typically worked against community interests and exacerbated inequities — draining resources from struggling districts, deepening segregation, diverting attention from systemic change to individual choice, and so on.

For decades Charlotte - Mecklenburg's public schools were promoted as a model for the nation because they used busing to prevent school segregation.

«What we tried to do is write ways to enable charter schools to promote desegregation rather exacerbate segregation.»

School districts can work against this growing segregation by developing student assignment systems that promote socioeconomic diversity within schools.

A liberal Texas activist group asked the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to hold Hurricane Harvey relief funds and other grant monies from Houston until the City fully addresses policies that promote «racial discrimination and perpetuation of segregation.»