Sentences with phrase «public education inequities»

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Whether through democracy, strong public education, quality health care, or broad economic opportunity — reducing inequity is the highest human achievement.»

They say it could pay for legal services, help house the homeless and fund better education and end inequities in public schools

During a very public disgreement between the two men last year over funding for de Blasio's signature campaign initiative of pre-kindergarten education expansion, Cuomo said, pointedly, that de Blasio risked creating «more inequity and inequality.»

Its mission is to fight inequities in public education by introducing a diverse group of high achievers into districts with severe teacher shortages.

Second, I want to raise awareness about the inequities in our public education system, and the unconscionable achievement gap between children from low - income and high - income communities that has developed as a result of these inequities.

Attitudes: support for diversity (racial integration), a perception of inequity (that the public schools provide a lower quality education for low - income and minority kids), support for voluntary prayer in the schools, support for greater parent influence, desire for smaller schools, belief in what I call the «public school ideology» (which measures a normative attachment to public schooling and its ideals), a belief in markets (that choice and competition are likely to make schools more effective), and a concern that moral values are poorly taught in the public schools.

Declarations that public education in general and high schools in particular turn out badly prepared graduates, perpetuate inequities, and generally operate in ways that run counter to the nation's interests have become almost commonplace.

Since 1973, when the U.S. Supreme Court held that education was not a «fundamental interest» under the federal constitution, education advocates, frustrated by continuing inequities in the funding of public education, have turned to the state courts.

Her experience there highlighted the inequities she knew existed in public education.

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How the teacher pay raise formula could worsen Seattle's inequity In this oped Marguerite Roza describes one critical issue underlying the fall 2015 Seattle Public Schools teachers» strike that neither the Seattle School District nor the Seattle Education Association, the teachers» union, took on: the built - in inequities across schools created...

Many people believe the film promotes the privatization of public education and inflames a political climate in which teachers are unjustly disparaged and blamed for the effects of poverty and educational inequity.

Attorneys from the Education Law Center and the Public Interest Law Center cited gross inequities in school funding among the state's school districts, to argue that the state's current school funding system violates the state Constitution's requirement that the state legislature «support and maintain» a «thorough and efficient system of public educatioEducation Law Center and the Public Interest Law Center cited gross inequities in school funding among the state's school districts, to argue that the state's current school funding system violates the state Constitution's requirement that the state legislature «support and maintain» a «thorough and efficient system of public education.&Public Interest Law Center cited gross inequities in school funding among the state's school districts, to argue that the state's current school funding system violates the state Constitution's requirement that the state legislature «support and maintain» a «thorough and efficient system of public education.&public educationeducation.»

In 2015, OUSD, local charter organizations and the County came together to form the Oakland Public Schools Equity Pledge, a city - wide partnership to create a public education system that works in the best interests of all students and their families, by disrupting inequity and cultivating excellence in our scPublic Schools Equity Pledge, a city - wide partnership to create a public education system that works in the best interests of all students and their families, by disrupting inequity and cultivating excellence in our scpublic education system that works in the best interests of all students and their families, by disrupting inequity and cultivating excellence in our schools.

Revamping public education to better serve low - income, Black, Latino, and English learner students will require building allies as we go forward in creating an educational system free of disabling inequities that enables every student to follow and attain their aspirations.

Given the history of inequity that underlies the U.S. public education system, how can policymakers and educators ensure that all kids — including students of color — receive the tools, support, and encouragement they need?

Despite decades of effort, public education still struggles with inequity.

PHILADELPHIA: In a column in the Philadelphia School Notebook, Ron Whitehorne, Director of Philadelphia Citizens Advocating for Public Schools (PCAPS), calls for sustainable community schools as a response to inequities in the city's education system.

Such inequities will undermine public support for the next round of education reform and must be addressed in the next legislative session.

While many factors contribute to this problem, it is a reality in American public education that students who have fallen behind are disproportionately in families with low incomes and disproportionately members of communities that have been on the wrong side of inequities and injustice in our society, including people of color, recent immigrants, and members of the LGBTQ community.

While we can not be certain these gains will remain if additional and severe education cuts are enacted, we remain vigilant in protecting all forms of charter school funding and in reducing inequity in funding levels between charter schools and traditional public schools.

While those of us working in the education field may be well aware of the lingering inequities in the education system — and how they are revealed through student performance — the greater public is often misinformed about how and why achievement gaps persist.

We have successfully delivered a range of intermediary functions, providing supplementary support to public education in Shelby County, Tennessee, an area with a deep history of inequity, poverty and poor educational outcomes.

Nearly 60 years after the 1954 landmark ruling in Brown v. the Board of Education, in which the U.S. Supreme Court declared public education is «a right which must be made available on equal terms,» racial inequities in school spendingEducation, in which the U.S. Supreme Court declared public education is «a right which must be made available on equal terms,» racial inequities in school spendingeducation is «a right which must be made available on equal terms,» racial inequities in school spending persist.

In this position, Lowery will lead Ed Trust's P - 12 team by developing and implementing powerful strategies to focus national attention on inequities in public education as well as the actions necessary to close gaps in opportunity and to improve achievement.

Our job is to focus public attention on those gaps, the inequities that produce them, and the education leaders and reformers who make closing them their top priority.»

«This report suggests that inequity in public education, though widespread, isn't inevitable,» says CRPE Director Robin Lake.

«Out of the Loop,» a new report from the National School Boards Association's (NSBA), Center for Public Education (CPE), finds that poverty, isolation and inequities are exacerbated for rural students by the lack of attention to the unique needs of this considerable student population.

The base funding for public education will grow substantially and will be the same for charter schools as district schools, greatly reducing the long standing funding inequity between charter public schools and traditional district schools.

The Journey for Justice Alliance is releasing a new report — Failing Brown v Board: A Continuous Struggle Against Inequity in Public Education — on Monday, May 14th in an event at the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, DC.

As we demonstrated in our 2015 analysis of the Common Core debate on Twitter, the dispute about the standards was largely a proxy war over other politically - charged issues, including opposition to a federal role in education, which many believe should be the domain of state and local education policy; a fear that the Common Core could become a gateway for access to data on children that might be used for exploitive purposes rather than to inform educational improvement; a source for the proliferation of testing which has come to oppressively dominate education; a way for business interests to exploit public education for private gain; or a belief that an emphasis on standards reform distracts from the deeper underlying causes of low educational performance, which include poverty and social inequity.

«Unfortunately, like the existing education funding policy, there are elements of the Local Control Funding Formula that perpetuate school funding inequities, and we will continue our work to achieve funding equity for all public school students.

Advance Illinois is using data visualization tools to demonstrate inequities and opportunities in our public education system, from early childhood education to K - 12 to postsecondary education.

Changing Mindsets, Enhancing Leadership, and Strengthening Professional Development: Leadership and professional development programs in education, social work, community development, and other fields need to offer a sharper picture of the inequities that influence public education.

In this oped Marguerite Roza describes one critical issue underlying the fall 2015 Seattle Public Schools teachers» strike that neither the Seattle School District nor the Seattle Education Association, the teachers» union, took on: the built - in inequities across schools created by the district's outdated, traditional pay scale.

The roots of this inequity, says Linda Darling - Hammond, an influential education professor at Stanford University, stretch far back to the 18th century when the country's earliest public schools were jump - started with local fundraising.

Rather than making a series of empty, unfilled promises, these policies would actually improve teachers» working conditions, students» learning conditions, and school funding; would protect public schools from inequities of funding caused by the proliferation of charter schools; and would «encourage» the decision makers who currently establish public education policy to play within the rules, or forfeit the thing they are really most concerned about: those sweet, sweet campaign contributions.

We hope that you will pursue an aggressive agenda to remedy the extreme and pronounced inequities of opportunity that our public education system continues to perpetuate.

While the research presented here investigated the school choice process, great consideration must also be given to the quality of the special education services that New Orleans» public schools provide and how these conditions may perpetuate further inequities.

But my grand, unifying theory, the thing that determines how all the other stuff hangs together, basically rests on two claims: 1) there are enormous systemic inequities built into American public education, and 2) the decentralization of U.S. political institutions makes rapid policy - driven...

What the union boss does not mention is that the inequities in our public education system are largely the doing of NEA and its state and local affiliates.