Sentences with phrase «racial integration by»

For this reason, many praise socio economic and racial integration by white upper and middle class families as a means to achieve better educational networks, resources, and opportunities.

School choice improves racial integration by breaking down the relationship between residence and school:

The new law calls for replicating magnet school programs that demonstrate «success in increasing student academic achievement and reducing isolation of minority groups» and «increase racial integration by taking into account socioeconomic diversity.»

In theory, vouchers should promote racial integration by allowing parents of minority students to apply to more diverse private schools.

Not exact matches

The romantic element was the belief that even as segregation reinforced itself by fortifying racial resentment, ignorance, and antagonism, integration would promote racial tolerance and harmony, evolving steadily from a government policy into a natural inclination.

And if they meant by integration (to fuse) cultures by means of (racial, religious, language, tribal +) in to some new one colorless format?!

That Paris subway train racial abuse and racial chants by the Chelsea fans mark a big difference between the racialess Gooners and the racial chants Bad Boys in terms of social and racial integration.

Many white families left cities to move to the suburbs — white flight» — though there is some debate about how much of this was caused by Brown and the racial integration of schools.

Contrary to allegations by the U.S. Department of Justice, the scholarship program improves racial integration in public schools in 34 districts under desegregation orders

By this measure, schools are closer to complete integration than ever before, and thus racial composition would have to change less now than when the report was released.

Issues raised by the groundbreaking Brown v. Board of Education case — such as racial equality, integration, and quality education — are still alive and being debated today, said panelists at the recent Askwith Forum, «In Brown's Wake.»

The commission for which I served as executive director of research was established as an attempt to forestall a lawsuit by the Milwaukee School Board intended to force metropolitan racial integration.

The study, «The Louisiana Scholarship Program,» by Anna J. Egalite and Jonathan N. Mills, finds that the transfers resulting from the LSP vouchers statewide «overwhelmingly improve integration in the public schools students leave (the sending schools), bringing the racial composition of the schools closer to that of the broader communities in which they are located.»

Since minority students tend to come from lower income families, racial integration might be achieved indirectly by giving low - income families their choice of school, whenever that would facilitate integration across socioeconomic lines.

Among the subset of students for whom data are available, we find that transfers made possible by the school - choice program overwhelmingly improve integration in the public schools that students leave (the sending schools), bringing the racial composition of the schools closer to that of the broader communities in which they are located.

African - American parents, by an overwhelming margin, want the public schools to focus on achievement rather than on racial diversity and integration, a survey released last week says.

In addition to federal policy, school districts and charter networks across the country are doing their part to promote racial and socioeconomic integration by considering socioeconomic factors in student assignment policies.

She is also a co-editor of Lessons in Integration: Realizing the Promise of Racial Diversity in America's Schools (with Gary Orfield), published by the University of Virginia Press (2007).

It was a neighborhood school and a magnet school, part of LAUSD's voluntary integration program, for black and Latino children living in parts of the city beleaguered by poverty, violence, and other harms of racial isolation.

Integration Ambassadors: A Grassroots Organization of Parents and Educators in Greater Hartford, Connecticut, Keeps Racial and Economic Diversity in Schools and on Agendas by Susan Eaton (2013)

The study offers several recommendations for restoring equity provisions and integration in charter schools, including establishing new guidance and reporting requirements by the Federal government; federal funding opportunities for magnet schools, which have a documented legacy of reducing racial isolation and improving student outcomes; and incorporating some features of magnet schools into charter schools.

In 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court made school integration more difficult when it prohibited the Louisville, Kentucky, and Seattle, Washington, school districts from making racial balance a factor in assigning students to schools in cases where applicant numbers exceeded available seats.1 The plurality opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts called student categorization by race unconstitutional unless it was designed to reverse the effects of explicit rules that segregated students by race.

This literature review, developed by Dr. Erica Frankenberg for the IDRA EAC - South, surveys the landscape of K - 12 integration strategies to understand what is being implemented and what we know about the design and implementation of such policies that might create more diverse schools and reduce racial isolation.

Earlier this year, the President proposed a $ 120 million program called «Stronger Together» that awards grants to school districts for efforts to integrate their student populations voluntarily by socioeconomic levels, which often results in racial integration as well.

The absurdity of the DOJ's lawsuit was further exposed when two studies by researchers at the University of Arkansas and Boston University revealed that the net effect of the voucher program was to improve racial integration.

A study released in November by Harvard Law School's Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice took a look at eight major inter-district integration programs across the country and concluded that Choice is Yours had «perhaps the most impressive system of outreach for students and families crossing school district boundaries — as well as racial, social - class and cultural boundaries.»

Specifically, the GAO has been asked to examine changes in student racial isolation or integration over time, including shifts caused by school closures or consolidations; state and local policies that affect attendance areas or admissions, including open enrollment in public charter schools; voluntary policies intended to increase integration; and the impact of racial and socioeconomic isolation in public education.

By creating their own school districts, these cities are not only creating obstacles to racial integration, but are also keeping their capital concentrated in their region.

A major element of this process has been the creation of interdistrict magnet schools, which are designed to facilitate racial and ethnic integration by attracting white families from neighboring suburbs and to provide well - resourced facilities and curricula for New Haven students.

Instead, Cahan attempts to expose a more complex web of racial encounters forced by integration.