Sentences with phrase «racial imbalance»

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At most, those statistics show a national trend toward classroom racial imbalance.

However, racial imbalance without intentional state action to separate the races does not amount to segregation.

Also worrying: In Massachusetts and elsewhere, concerns about racial imbalance in school discipline are making it harder to use suspension to establish a structured and safe school environment (the primary beneficiaries of which are poor African American children).

That seminal law explicitly states that «desegregation» means the assignment of students to schools «without regard to their race, color, religion, or national origin,» and shall not be interpreted to mean «the assignment of students to public schools in order to overcome racial imbalance.»

No. 1, supra, at 461; Seattle Public Schools Desegregation Planning Office, Proposed Alternative Desegregation Plans: Options for Eliminating Racial Imbalance by the 1979 - 80 School Year (Sept. 1977)(filed with the Court as Exh.

In Georgia, state lawyers argued in a federal court last month that the state should not be required to pay to eliminate racial imbalances in the Savannah - Chatham County schools that, the state...

[17] In this regard, the mean racial imbalance score in traditional public schools for black students is +1.6 percent whereas in charters it is +5.7 percent.

The judge noted, however, that the Supreme Court has decided that school districts are not required to rectify racial imbalances in residential housing.

A growing number of districts looking to right racial imbalances by dedicating staff members to work on equity, diversity, and inclusion.

The Connecticut State Board of Education has formed a committee to re-examine a 15 - year - old law aimed at reducing racial imbalance in state classrooms.

Whenever the board finds that racial imbalance exists in a public school, it shall give written notice to the appropriate school committee, which shall prepare a plan to eliminate imbalance and file a copy with the board.

It will have little effect, however, upon the many other school districts throughout the country that are still being supervised by federal judges, since it turns upon the extraordinarily rare circumstance of a finding that no portion of the current racial imbalance is a remnant of prior de jure discrimination.

The school board has begun discussing a redistricting plan that will be necessary in the 2016 - 2017 school year to address «impending racial imbalance» at Moody and Macdonough schools.

Greenwich education officials are weighing several proposals to address racial imbalances in the district's schools.

The Michelada Think Tank, formed by a group of Otis MFA Public Practice students, will also host an informal discussion about how people of color can establish a support system to help each other in the work they do under racial imbalance.

American Promise is a terrific film about racial imbalance and family dynamics, whose immense 13 - year production process (from 1999 to 2012) was lengthy by design; filmmakers Joe Brewster and...

(b) «Desegregation» means the assignment of students to public schools and within such schools without regard to their race, color, religion, or national origin, but «desegregation» shall not mean the assignment of students to public schools in order to overcome racial imbalance.

Although there is arguably a danger of racial imbalance in schools in Seattle and Louisville, there is no danger of resegregation.

Connecticut's court has ruled that racial imbalance in public schools violates the state constitution even though the imbalance is a result of residential patterns and not the product of any government action.

Perhaps there would have been a reference to racial imbalance — the great bulk of the cocaine stories have dealt with black players, and the four suspended players are black.

Many African Americans continue to feel a racial imbalance in our community.

In addition to the racial imbalance in MSI, the researchers also found that African - Americans patients were more likely than Caucasian patients to have cancer on the right side of their colon.

American Promise is a terrific film about racial imbalance and family dynamics, whose immense 13 - year production process (from 1999 to 2012) was lengthy by design; filmmakers Joe Brewster and Michele

A «racial imbalance» determination requires the district to submit a plan to correct the racial imbalance, which plan may include «mandatory pupil reassignment.»

«The term «racial imbalance» refers to a ratio between nonwhite and other students in public schools which is sharply out of balance with the racial composition of the society in which nonwhite children study, serve and work.

«The racial imbalance act requires the school committee of every municipality annually to submit statistics showing the percentage of nonwhite pupils in all public schools and in each school.

Perhaps for this reason, the dissent conflates the concepts of segregation and racial imbalance: If racial imbalance equates to segregation, then it must also be constitutionally acceptable to use racial balancing to remedy racial imbalance.

For the purpose of this section, racial imbalance shall be deemed to exist when the per cent of nonwhite students in any public school is in excess of fifty per cent of the total number of students in such school.»»

Are you as shocked and disturbed, Jon about the racial imbalance in your home town school district?

This same study raised suspicion around the racial imbalance among special education students and contradicted previous findings that suggested minorities, particularly African Americans, are roped into disabled categories more easily.