Sentences with phrase «racial impact»

This disproportionate racial impact is why there's a long history of civil - rights lawsuits opposing high stakes testing.

In early 2013, parents from 18 cities filed discrimination complaints with the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights, claiming that recent and proposed school closings are yielding a disparate racial impact.

appropriate under the Constitution where, as in this case, special racial impact, but no discriminatory purpose, is claimed.

More recently, the advocacy group Parents United for Responsible Education put the issue on the front burner when it filed a federal civil rights complaint against the district's retention policy because of its disparate racial impact.

Ms. Carton is a member of the Committee on Disproportionate Racial Impact, the Committee on Best Practices for Court Mental Health Evaluations, the Law Guardian Liaison Committee, the National Adoption Day Committee, and numerous other committees and projects dedicated to educating attorneys and litigants about family dispute resolution and best practices in family and matrimonial law litigation.

Sam Pollard, a filmmaker and NYU film professor, explains the racial impact of the movie.

«A very interesting aspect of today's Court decision was the requirement that the commissioner must consider the racial impact each charter school would have and use his full powers to avoid segregation.

Some education leaders are rushing to embrace the newly frank conversation about the racial impact of education reforms.

But in response to a FOIA request filed by NCLC and the ACLU, the Department's Federal Student Aid office acknowledged that it has no policies in place to monitor the racial impacts of its collection practices, nor does it keep any data that would allow it to monitor how African American or Latino borrowers are faring.

We're less sure that the Supreme Court still believes, as it once did, that Title VI authorizes agencies to issue rules that prohibit policies that have a disparate racial impact.