Sentences with phrase «racial isolation»

How can we better integrate our schools, promote a healthy diversity, and reduce racial isolation?

Test scores fell and levels of racial isolation increased.

Public charter schools do not create racial isolation, despite an assertion made by a recent AP review.

Providing lower class sizes and other resources in schools with concentrated racial isolation and poverty was crucial, but they did not make a big dent in children's achievement.

Yet, there are charter schools that are proving that you can reduce racial isolation.

The new focus on neighborhood schools will alleviate the «harmful effects of racial isolation,» the agreement states.

Ali, R., & Pérez, T.E. Guidance on the Voluntary Use of Race to Achieve Diversity and Avoid Racial Isolation in Elementary and Secondary Schools (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division and U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights, December 2011).

, Paul Hill considers the question of whether or not charter schools are major factors in the national trend of greater separation of the races in schools, which is driven by racial isolation by neighborhood, population change (fewer white students), the cost of housing, and a transportation system that makes cross-town movement difficult.

This year, only five states earned a grade of «A.» Likewise, grades in the category «Life Chances for Students» are lower than they would have been a decade ago, due to rising proportions of students living in poverty and increased racial isolation in schools.

Jon, please show me one column, one paragraph, one SENTENCE where you complained about racial isolation before 1999.

National enrollment data shows that charters are vastly over-represented among schools where minorities study in the most extreme racial isolation.

All charter schools articulate in their applications how they will reduce economic and racial isolation for their student populations, as required by state law.

We have little hope of remedying school segregation that flows from neighborhood racial isolation if we don't understand its causes.

One of the most significant problems associated with the overall racial isolation issue is that the State of Connecticut has been diverting more and more money away from the effort to reduce isolation and, instead, spending it on charter schools.

But as the Washington Post noted, the evidence shows that the vouchers» effects on segregation are at most trivial and often mitigate racial isolation (see «The Louisiana Scholarship Program,» Check the Facts, Winter 2014).

New data shows that 40 percent of the city's children don't attend their neighborhood school, undermining the idea that residential patterns cause racial isolation.

In order to meet the needs of their diverse student population, prevent racial isolation, and prepare students to navigate an increasingly more globalized society, LAUSD's Student Integration Services Office finds ways to provide more choices to students and their families.

«Racial isolation remains far too common in America's classrooms today and it is increasing,» Education Secretary Arne Duncan said in a statement.

Districts may design school choice programs in a way that achieves diversity or avoids racial isolation using race - neutral factors (such as socioeconomic status) or generalized race - based factors that look at things like the overall racial composition of neighborhoods but do not involve decision - making on the basis of any individual student's race.

The new federal guidance is vital and extremely promising because: a) it recognizes the value of diversity and the educational and civic problems that accompany racial isolation and b) because it provides clear guidance to school districts that will limit the costly litigation that had arisen around student assignment policies.

Parents are also rising up to protest the profound racial isolation wrought by Connecticut's charters.

Since the 1996 decision, Sheff plaintiffs have been working with Hartford Public Schools, the City of Hartford and the State of Connecticut to create and implement various programs geared toward eradicating racial isolation in schools.

The first report, The Segregation of American Teachers, documented serious patterns of racial isolation among the faculties of U.S. K - 12 schools.

Instead, it describes a city where, compared to its neighbors Darien, New Canaan, Westport and Greenwich, «racial isolation prevails.»

Charter schools may in fact provide students with «better educational outcome «However, the increased racial isolation means these schools (like many of our urban schools) are unconstitutionally racially isolated.

While conveniently overlooking the growing racial isolation in charter schools, Achievement First and other major urban charter schools base their demand for more public funds by claiming that their standardized test scores prove that their charter schools are providing students with a superior education.

And, by the way, we can not talk racial isolation and segregated schools without discussing housing patterns.

Virginia needs to develop state - level policies that focus on reducing racial isolation and promoting diverse schools.

This manual was written to help guide education stakeholders — including parents, students, school board members, community activists, administrators, policymakers and attorneys — in their efforts to promote racial diversity and avoid racial isolation in suburban school systems.

Ramon Cortinas said «If charter schools are doing the job for the student, and it is a better job... I'm not as concerned about racial isolation.»

AP says its analysis of charter schools in 42 states found that charters promote «extreme racial isolation.»

Nothing in the book warrants a conclusion that charter schools are major factors in the national trend of greater separation of the races in schools, which is driven by racial isolation by neighborhood, population change (fewer white students), the cost of housing, and a transportation system that makes cross-town movement difficult.

Despite their rhetoric, not only are most of Connecticut's charter schools actually increasing racial isolation, they are naively or knowingly overlooking key factors in their ongoing claims that they provide better educational outcomes.

When the Charlotte - Mecklenburg Schools sought to implement a plan last year to address racial isolation, many parents objected, and some local officials, primarily from white suburbs, threatened to open competing charters if the plan went through.

Instead the problem of racial isolation has increased not decreased at Achievement First schools and at a number of other charter schools.

Finally, many of those who have supported the creation of charter schools, including Connecticut's new Education Commissioner, have claimed that charter schools would be an important mechanism for reducing racial isolation in Connecticut.

As Harvard professor Paul E. Peterson notes, one «attraction of inner - city school choice is the possibility that a choice - based system could reduce the racial isolation within the central city.»

The brief notes that «research studies continue to show that student body diversity leads to significant educational benefits and prevents the harms of racial isolation.»

These schools are chosen based on their racial isolation and available space for accommodating new students.

We often get asked, «How can we better integrate our schools, promote a healthy diversity, and reduce racial isolation?

In a decision that stunned many observers, Judge Harry Hammer of the state superior court in Hartford sided squarely against the plaintiffs challenging the racial isolation of students in that city and its suburbs.

The greater breadth of today's research agenda is likely to move our understanding of the contemporary impact of racial isolation and the policies introduced to ameliorate it.

Legal doctrine asserted the problem was racial isolation.