Sentences with phrase «racial imbalances»

A few years ago, working with Muñoz, and looking at racial imbalances, Marshall moved about 200 elementary - school - age Latino students into the advanced track in their schools, even though the students had just missed the test score criteria for entry.

Watch experts discuss the racism present in special education programs in the video above, and click here for the full segment on racial imbalances in special education.

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

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

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...

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

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.»

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.

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

«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.

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.

(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.

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.

«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.

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

Four other districts in the ECCI could not be matched with data in the school racial imbalance dataset because their organizational structure no longer lends itself to a district characterization, e.g., neither Detroit nor New Orleans has a district identifier in the most recent federal common core of data from which the SRI dataset draws.

The principal question is whether the degree of public school choice at the school district level is associated with racial imbalance between school enrollment and the school - age population of the geographical catchment areas of the district's schools.

Such racial imbalance can happen when the student body of any particular school is based on a lottery among applicants to that school.

[9] The second is a new database on school racial imbalance (SRI), described in this recent report, which provides measures of the extent to which each public school in the U.S. reflects the racial demographics of its surrounding neighborhood.

For the present analysis, I aggregate to the district level the data on racial imbalance at individual schools from the SRI and link it to the ECCI data on the choice systems of large districts.

The principal question is whether the degree of public school choice at the district level is associated with within district racial imbalance between school enrollment and the school - age population of individual schools» geographical catchment areas.

The information components of school choice systems, e.g., the ability to compare schools online and to see side - by - side information on school performance, do not appear to have much influence on school choices that generate racial imbalance.

The lack of a statistically significant association between racial imbalance scores for any group and the availability of alternatives to traditional public schools is consistent with the hypothesis that charter schools and affordable private schools are not a necessary component of choice - based racial imbalance in public schools.

The statistical technique underlying the graph, called canonical correlation, has the advantage for the present purpose of collapsing the seven separate ECCI scores into a single number for each district, and likewise combining into a single score the separate measures of racial imbalance for whites and for blacks.

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.

According to Connecticut State Statute 10 - 226, when a board of education is notified by the state Department of Education that there is a racial imbalance in its schools, it must develop a plan to address that imbalance.

In 1980, Connecticut instituted the Racial Imbalance Law, requiring schools to report their racial make - up to the state.

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).

Kelly Donnelly, a spokeswoman for the Connecticut Board of Education, said the state preferred local officials to solve the racial imbalance issue.

Not exact matches

The mean of these school - level values for each district tells us, for example, that a district with an imbalance score for any particular racial group that is positive has, on average, public high schools that over represent that group relative to their neighborhoods.

A Status Quo of Segregation: Racial and Economic Imbalance in New Jersey Schools, 1989 - 2010.

It is contingent on... seeing cultural differences as assets; creating caring learning communities where culturally different individuals and heritages are valued; using cultural knowledge of ethnically diverse cultures, families, and communities to guide curriculum development, classroom climates, instructional strategies, and relationships with students; challenging racial and cultural stereotypes, prejudices, racism, and other forms of intolerance, injustice, and oppression; being change agents for social justice and academic equity; mediating power imbalances in classrooms based on race, culture, ethnicity, and class; and accepting cultural responsiveness as endemic to educational effectiveness in all areas of learning for students from all ethnic groups.»

Yet, as the report goes on to note, these state officials, those with the express obligation to reduce segregation, have consistently chosen to do nothing to prevent charter school segregation and its effects, including exacerbating racial, ethnic and economic imbalance in the host school districts.

The State Department attempted to justify its racial plan by noting that there were statistical imbalances at the senior Foreign Service levels, even though the path to the senior levels is unrelated to service at the lower levels.

Relying on cherry - picked statutory history, Brennan found that Title VII's plain text did not prohibit collectively bargained, voluntary affirmative action programs that attempt to remedy disparate impact — statistical imbalances in the racial composition of employment groups — even if such plans used quota systems.