Sentences with phrase «racial isolation in»

But why aren't you and Jon Pelto concerned about the racial isolation in Madison or Simsbury?

Excellent point — and now Charters are not required by law or policy to reduce racial isolation in fact, nearly every single charter school in CT is more racial isolated than the community they draw from and consistently discriminate against Latino Students, students who aren't fluent in the English Language and students who require special education services.

From the nefarious achievement gaps, to the racial isolation in our increasingly segregated schools; from the digital divide that results in kids not having access to computers, to the poverty gulf that results in kids not having homes; from boys» reading difficulties and girls» problems with math, to the disparities among rural, suburban, and urban school needs — these gaps present baffling problems.

While the State of Connecticut spends hundreds of millions of dollars every year to reduce racial isolation in our urban school districts, as required by Connecticut's Constitution and Courts, Governor Dannel Malloy is pumping more than $ 100 million a year into Connecticut Charter Schools despite the fact that they have become a primary vehicle for the segregation of our public school system.

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.

Forget that as a result of the Sheff v. O'Neill case, Connecticut taxpayers are spending hundreds of millions of dollars every year to reduce racial isolation in public schools.

What makes this issue particularly troubling is that Connecticut's new State Commissioner of Education has repeatedly said he will work to expand charter schools in Connecticut even though it is clear from the evidence that most charter schools are unwilling or unable to be a part of the overall effort to reduce racial isolation in our state.

When one of the attorneys in the famous Sheff desegregation case said, «the state has an obligation to provide great, racially diverse schools,» Connecticut's Supreme Court agreed and ordered the legislature to take definitive action to reduce racial isolation in the state's urban public schools.

In 1996, the Supreme Court determined that racial isolation in Hartford was depriving students of equal educational opportunities (Sheff v. O'Neill), ultimately leading the state to build more magnet schools in Hartford.

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.

Among other changes, the legislative committees also removed a proposal that would have paid for an additional 275 slots in public charter schools, reduced proposed funding to comply with the Sheff vs. O'Neill court order to reduce racial isolation in Hartford schools and sharply cut back a plan for various teacher training and leadership programs.

In a recent commentary piece written for the Stamford Advocate and other Connecticut newspapers owned by Hearst Media, Wendy Lecker, the outspoken school advocate wrote about our nation and state's failure to truly deal with racial isolation in our public schools.

Although Stamford has made great strides in improving their academic performance and reducing racial isolation in its schools, the Bronx Charter School for Excellence, Inc. sees an opportunity to cash in on Connecticut's charter school expansion program.

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.

And, equally important, Connecticut's effort to reduce racial isolation in our urban schools deserves better too.

Racial isolation in school choice systems raises vitally important questions, which defy simple answers, about what we value as a society and how we should organize ourselves to realize those values.

Addressing a crowded room of magnet school educators and supporters last week, Acting U.S. Secretary of Education John King explained his personal commitment to school diversity and the importance of reducing racial isolation in schools.

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).

Not exact matches

Racial desegregation in the schools can not take place in isolation but must be part of a broad attack on bias in many directions.

Prisons and jails present in microcosm the challenges confronting the church and the world — racial polarization, economic disparity and poverty, terror and violence, drug and alcohol abuse, personal and family brokenness, isolation and loneliness, anger and meaninglessness and guilt.

In addition, the Senate GOP plan would flat - fund charter schools and the Open Choice Program, which aims to improve academic achievement and reduce racial, ethnic and economic isolation.

SE: Evidence from a variety of fields — education, public health, and economics — supports attaining and maintaining diversity and avoiding racial and economic isolation in schools.

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 suburbIn 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 suburbin Hartford sided squarely against the plaintiffs challenging the racial isolation of students in that city and its suburbin that city and its suburbs.

The schools were intended to reduce racial and ethnic isolation in the 24,500 - student Hartford district.

, 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.

Schools are just mirrors of our society, and when communities of color are deliberately gutted of their public services, jobs, housing, and health care, these human beings who are the most vulnerable in society become trapped by economic and racial isolation.

The pitch for greater judicial involvement comes as a state superior court judge must decide whether Connecticut's integration efforts have been adequate, or if more needs to be done to reduce the racial and ethnic isolation that persists among the schools in the Hartford region.

The Obama administration has issued new priorities for its charter - school grant program, among them support for schools that «promote diversity in their student bodies, including racial and ethnic diversity, or avoid racial isolation.»

One commentator, reviewing dozens of studies of the educational benefits of desegregated schooling, found that the studies have provided «remarkably consistent» results, showing that: (1) black students» educational achievement is improved in integrated schools as compared to racially isolated schools, (2) black students» educational achievement is improved in integrated classes, and (3) the earlier that black students are removed from racial isolation, the better their educational outcomes.

The bill will encourage school districts to work in coordination to break down barriers that sustain racial and socioeconomic isolation by creating interdistrict or regional magnet programs.

In general, charters are not opened with the intention of increasing racial isolation, says Nat Malkus, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.

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.»

Thanks in large part to Secretary King, the Obama administration has now made a meaningful commitment to reducing racial and socioeconomic isolation in our nation's schools, by proposing a $ 120 million request in the 2017 budget to fund the «Stronger Together» initiative.

In an interview with EdSource, Orfield noted that the racial isolation didn't occur by happenstance, but reflects residential segregation that has been shaped by explicit policies affecting where people live, such a whether communities allow affordable rental housing in their communities, as well as how school boundaries are drawIn an interview with EdSource, Orfield noted that the racial isolation didn't occur by happenstance, but reflects residential segregation that has been shaped by explicit policies affecting where people live, such a whether communities allow affordable rental housing in their communities, as well as how school boundaries are drawin their communities, as well as how school boundaries are drawn.

Only in New Mexico did Latino students experience a greater level of racial isolation.

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.

While this case affirmed that school districts have compelling interests both in achieving diversity and in avoiding racial isolation, it added a new level of legal uncertainty for school districts trying to achieve these goals.

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.

As readers of Wait, What know, the urban charter schools are actually making the racial isolation problem worse because all the charter schools are more racially isolated than the public schools in those same communities.

With an approach like that, the proponents of reducing racial isolation and protecting civil rights should simply say to Governor Malloy: «If you aren't going to be serious about your Constitutional and moral duty to Connecticut's minority students, then we'll see you in court!»

The AP report, published Monday and headlined «U.S. Charter Schools Put Growing Numbers in Racial Isolation,» says that «charters are vastly over-represented among schools where minorities study in the most extreme racial isolation.&Racial Isolation,» says that «charters are vastly over-represented among schools where minorities study in the most extreme racial isolatioIsolation,» says that «charters are vastly over-represented among schools where minorities study in the most extreme racial isolation.&racial isolationisolation.»

First, public school choice programs (such as charter and interdistrict magnet schools) in Connecticut are all required by Connecticut law to provide children with an equal educational opportunity and to reduce racial, ethnic, and economic isolation of students (except technical schools).

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

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.

Racial isolation has discouraging repercussions, according to Howell Baum, the author of» «Brown» in Baltimore: School Desegregation and the Limits of Liberalism.»

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.

(A) adequately demonstrate student progress, as determined by the commissioner, (B) comply with the terms of its charter or with applicable laws and regulations, (C) achieve measurable progress in reducing racial, ethnic and economic isolation, (continued...)

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.