Sentences with phrase «public school diversity»

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The Clinton platform also focuses heavily on education, including a call to broaden computer science education in public schools, revamp job training programs, and provide more funds for minority colleges to help tackle tech's diversity problem.

Singh is a fierce advocate of diversity and equity issues at the Peel District School Board and at the Ontario Public School Board Association (OPSBA).

Although there has been some push back on the new sex ed curriculum for public schools, which would see teaching about family diversity that includes LBGT families, anti-homophobia instruction including that being gay is normal, and — at long last!

Having partnered with Brian for years when he served in the State Assembly, I know he will a powerful advocate for our community by funding and promoting equity and diversity in our public schools, preserving and expanding affordable housing, and promoting services for seniors and New Yorkers of all ages.»

De Blasio announced that the Muslim holidays of Eid al - Adha and al - Fitr have been added to the NYC public school schedule, calling it «a change that respects the diversity of our city.»

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.

July 25 — TAPCo Public School of the Arts is hosting a ribbon cutting unveiling a beautiful 4,000 sq. ft. mural highlighting the diversity and challenges faced by the mental health community in the Bronx, 5:30 pm.

Amid calls for more integration in New York City's public schools, 19 schools will give priority in admissions for next fall to low - income students or English language learners, joining seven already in a «diversity in admissions» pilot project.

As Buffalo Public Schools near the start of the long process for admission to the city's criteria school next year, the district is asking city residents to come up with ideas for improving racial and ethnic diversity in the sSchools near the start of the long process for admission to the city's criteria school next year, the district is asking city residents to come up with ideas for improving racial and ethnic diversity in the schoolsschools.

The makeup of the powerful education policymaking panel will be drastically different, with increased racial and gender diversity and a greater representation of public school educators.

Speaking with reporters Wednesday at a ribbon cutting for Manhattan's Public School 191 campus, Fariña said she would promote classroom diversity by rezoning schools, as she did in Manhattan District 3, in other neighborhoods.

The public advocate also said she would hire a chief diversity officer for the Department of Education in order to address segregation in city public schools, which she said is more rampant now than it was in the 1960s and the 1970s.

Her State of the City will also call for free birth control for all women in the five boroughs, universal free school lunch, $ 22 million for the Emergency Food Assistance program and new diversity and sex education programs in public schools.

Public Advocate Letitia James expressed disappointment in the lack of ambition from the Department of Education's plans for improving school diversity.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's plan for increasing school diversity, released on June 6, is a much - needed response to segregation in New York City public schools.

FINANCIAL DISTRICT — The teachers union and state lawmakers are pushing to overhaul admissions at the city's top public high schools, calling the lack of racial diversity at the schools «an embarrassment.»

Ben Latigo, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University of the District of Columbia (UDC)-- the public university for D.C. residents, with a predominantly African - American enrollment — believes the new GI Bill will broaden the ethnic diversity of the sciences and engineering professions and bring more women into these fields.

«We have a major medical center and law school, and we have our own rich traditions rooted in the Carolina soil, such as being the nation's oldest public university with a strong history of diversity.»

«School choice policies may impact segregation and diversity of public schools.»

Now, a Penn State researcher is looking at how student assignment policies may be impacting the diversity of public schools.

Ecologists, educators and writers collaborate with the public to assess backyard diversity in The School of Ants Project.

Director Dot Harris, Office of Economic Impact and Diversity at the Department of Energy, will be on the line with Dr. Rebecca Spyke - Keiser, Associate Deputy Administrator for Strategy and Policy at NASA; Jill Fuss, Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Stephanie Stilson, Engineer at Kennedy Space Center and NASA Headquarters, and a class at Andrew Jackson Middle School in Titusville, Florida, to discuss ways to find role models for young people in STEM fields and answer questions from students and the general public about STEM careers.

«Our findings present a need for broadening local food opportunities beyond the privileged, higher - income consumer, through alternative payment plans and strategic efforts that make fresh foods accessible to a diversity of people,» said James Farmer, assistant professor in the Department of Recreation, Park and Tourism Studies in the IU School of Public Health - Bloomington.

U.S. Private Schools Increasingly Serve Affluent Families (Vox CEPR's Policy Portal) Richard Murnane discusses how fewer middle - class children are now enrolled in private schools and that an increase in residential segregation by income in the US means that urban public and urban private schools have less socioeconomic diversity than they had decadSchools Increasingly Serve Affluent Families (Vox CEPR's Policy Portal) Richard Murnane discusses how fewer middle - class children are now enrolled in private schools and that an increase in residential segregation by income in the US means that urban public and urban private schools have less socioeconomic diversity than they had decadschools and that an increase in residential segregation by income in the US means that urban public and urban private schools have less socioeconomic diversity than they had decadschools have less socioeconomic diversity than they had decades ago.

A third possible direction goes back to diversity and individualism — through privatization, including such mechanisms as tuition tax credits, vouchers (enabling students to opt out of the public school system), and home schooling.

Commissioner of Education Vincent L. Ferrandino of Connecticut has proposed allowing parents to choose the public schools their children attend as a way to promote racial diversity.

The pressures of mainstream culture and market forces, as well as internal differences in religious style and governance, have created a wide diversity of Christian schools — a diversity that in many ways contributes to the public good.

SE: Evidence from a variety of fields — education, public health, and economics — supports attaining and maintaining diversity and avoiding racial and economic isolation in schools.

As the child of immigrants who counted public school access in their equation of the American Dream, I had minimal exposure to private schools growing up, and as a young parent I wanted my children to embrace diversity, thinking this would be found in public, not private, schools.

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.

But in a new article for Education Next, «Desegregation Since the Coleman Report: Racial composition of schools and student learning,» Steven Rivkin of the University of Illinois at Chicago identifies a key trend masquerading as resegregation: the decreasing enrollment share of white students due to the increasing ethnic diversity of public schools.

All I do know is that another proposal of mine, grouping NYC public school kids by ability, rather than age, would not only solve the perennial shortage of Gifted & Talented seats for all who qualify, it would also help with racial and socioeconomic diversity.

The second strategy we propose is to allow public charter schools and magnet schools to use weighted lotteries to create or maintain socioeconomic diversity.

Third, and most interesting, there is diversity in the suppliers of K — 12 public education: the Orleans Parish School board oversees a number of traditional public schools and charters; the state board of education authorizes several charters; and the Recovery School District (an entity created before Katrina to assume control of failing city schools) manages both charters and traditional public schools.

Citing studies of both evangelical Christian private schools and inner - city public schools, Levine noted that classrooms are often rich with political and ideological diversity.

But Moe is careful to note that a more «benign» interpretation exists: that inner - city whites who choose private schools simply don't value diversity as much as do whites who see diversity as a strong reason to stay in the public schools.

What it would do is give hard - working Catholic and other private - school parents a break while increasing diversity and excellence in both public and private schools.

Districts: Los Angeles Unified School District; Chicago Public Schools; New York City Public Schools; DeKalb County, GA; Fresno, CA; Mesa, AZ; Washington Elementary District, AZ; Buffalo, NY; Atlanta, GA; Arlington, VA; and Richmond, VA.) The states and districts were chosen to reflect the diversity of the country and to examine with special care the impacts of the law on minority students and sSchools; New York City Public Schools; DeKalb County, GA; Fresno, CA; Mesa, AZ; Washington Elementary District, AZ; Buffalo, NY; Atlanta, GA; Arlington, VA; and Richmond, VA.) The states and districts were chosen to reflect the diversity of the country and to examine with special care the impacts of the law on minority students and sSchools; DeKalb County, GA; Fresno, CA; Mesa, AZ; Washington Elementary District, AZ; Buffalo, NY; Atlanta, GA; Arlington, VA; and Richmond, VA.) The states and districts were chosen to reflect the diversity of the country and to examine with special care the impacts of the law on minority students and schoolsschools.

Given the student demographics and the urban environment, the Boston Public Schools system offers an extraordinary diversity of cultures, ethnicities, class backgrounds, and types of learners.

That was a response to Nelson's Smith's «Criticizing Charter Schools for Lacking Diversity and Unions Misses the Point,» a review of Kahlenberg and Potter's new book, A Smarter Charter: Finding What Works for Charter Schools and Public Education.

Some critics allege that they force the most - selective public colleges to admit underprepared students from low - performing schools and to deny admission to better - prepared students; others complain that they don't do enough to promote diversity.

Citing several factors that make learning more complex — increased diversity in our public school population, the inequity of out - of - school opportunities, and the increased role of technology in our lives — the report argues that many public schools are trying to respond by «overloading an outmoded structure.»

The data thus show that though most charter schools are small — and their numbers are relatively few — they serve the great racial and economic diversity of students that make up public education.

The diversity of values within American society renders public schools ill - equipped to produce the engaged citizens our democracy requires

While many of the nation's public schools remain stubbornly segregated by race and income, some charter schools and districts are starting to experiment with using weighted lotteries to increase diversity.

To investigate the public's views about race - and income - based enrollment programs, we asked Americans one of two variations of the following question: «In order to promote diversity, should public school districts be allowed to take the racial background [family income] of students into account when assigning students to schools?»

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A study of test scores in each of the city's public elementary schools finds that diversity does not erase achievement gaps between white and minority students.

In essence, the court must decide whether racial diversity in schools is a compelling interest — one that justifies the government's use of race in selecting students for admission to public high schools.

Hispanic students for the first time outnumber their peers in other racial and ethnic groups in Montgomery County's public schools, a milestone for diversity in a suburb long regarded as largely white and affluent.