Sentences with phrase «reduce school segregation»

Legal efforts to correct the effects of past official discrimination were followed by sporadic attempts, initiated by local governments and school districts, to reduce school segregation by voluntarily adopting race - conscious school - assignment plans.

The report presents arguments and solutions largely driven by ideology, not evidence, offering little value for policymakers or educators meaningfully engaged in the critical search for strategies to reduce school segregation.

States Step Up Efforts to Reduce School Segregation In response to a state Supreme Court ruling that children in Hartfords urban schools were receiving an inferior and unequal education, Connecticut stepped up efforts to improve the education of urban schools.

To the extent that school choice increases rather than reduces school segregation, there is work to be done.

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However, evidence from a range of sources released in recent months has been overwhelming in its condemnation of the move, revealing that removing the so - called 50 % cap on religious selection would not only lead to increased levels of segregation in schools and communities, but also damage social mobility and reduce the access of parents to their local schools.

Changing school attendance policies could be «more feasible than reducing income inequality, raising the minimum wage, instituting metropolitan governance, or creating affordable housing stock to address residential segregation,» Owens wrote.

«If schools play an important role in residential segregation, then breaking that link and making it less important and sort of alleviating parents» concerns about where their kids are going to attend school would reduce income segregation,» Owens said.

«Neighborhood and school poverty are big drivers of low - income kids» poor educational outcomes, so rising income segregation perpetuates inequality and may reduce poor kids» mobility.»

Transporting students long distances to reduce segregation in schools is costly, time - consuming for students, and likely to reduce parental participation in the schools.

In 1975, Coleman published a follow - up study that concluded that the main impediment to school desegregation was the growing residential segregation «between central city and suburbs,» and that the «current means by which schools are being desegregated are intensifying that problem, rather than reducing it.»

The use of interdistrict - choice programs is unlikely to increase most students» educational opportunities significantly, a new report concludes, despite recent attention to the idea as a means of reducing economic and racial segregation and giving students in low - performing public schools a chance to find a better school.

The evidence is that choice among government schools reduced income segregation.

On the positive side, he says, were «some political figures» who began to realize that we «need to stop demonizing teachers and their democratically elected representatives, and focus instead on what really matters: reducing poverty and school segregation.»

When I was superintendent of schools in Stamford, Conn., a very diverse system (40 % Hispanic, 22 % black, 8 % Asian, 30 % white, 40 % free and reduced - price lunch, 15 % English learners), I was faced with institutional segregation of students within desegregated schools.

Hartford, Connecticut, has significantly reduced economic segregation in its schools through a strategic system of student transfers called Open Choice.124

Waldrip, whose full article is linked here with many more specifics acknowledges that while magnet schools are still used to improve diversity and reduce segregation, they have rapidly become superior options within the public sector for all students, even in districts of primarily one race.

Existing research on other conventional school voucher programs point to a number of problems, including: lower student performance, less accountability, reduced access and increased segregation.

May 19, 2016 by Brett Kittredge As the United States marks the 62nd anniversary of the landmark Brown vs. Board of Education decision which declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional, a new study looks at the effect school choice has had in reducing racial segregation in schools.

The children's charity claimed its proposal, known as «fair banding», could reduce social segregation in the school system.

The effort has saved tens of millions of dollars and reduced segregation of students with disabilities, but it has triggered concerns that some students are being made to attend city schools that aren't equipped to handle their needs.

In addition, Walker's budget eliminates Chapter 220 — the only educational program in Milwaukee designed to reduce racial segregation in public schools and improve equal opportunity for students of color.

Emmanuel: With all of this, the original idea was that these measures would only be needed temporarily, but that was assuming policies would work in concert — that policies aimed at reducing housing segregation would have worked, and we wouldn't see that black and Hispanic students are still much more likely to attend high poverty schools than their white peers.

Peer tutoring could reduce racial segregation both within and between schools while narrowing the achievement gap.

The reduced teacher voice and increased segregation might seem defensible if charter schools were clearly providing a superior form of education to students systemwide.

With the establishment of the Sheff standard for racial integration in 2008, magnet schools have become the state's primary method for reducing racial segregation and promoting integration within the Greater Hartford Region public school system.

So, at the same time it continues to promote the growth of charter schools, the Obama administration should take immediate action to reduce the segregation in charter schools, working instead to achieve the integrative promise of charter schools.

He recommends three strategies: devoting more resources to the early grades; providing extended time in school (provided that it's used effectively); and doing more to reduce socioeconomic segregation in school assignment and thus provide more equal access to high - quality teachers, stimulating curriculum and instruction, and adequate school resources.

The REAL TRUTH is that while Connecticut spends massive amount of money to fulfill its federal and state constitutional mandate of REDUCING segregation, Connecticut charter schools are using public money to actually INCREASE racial segregation in Connecticut!

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.

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.

She argues that school reformers assume that schools can do more to address poverty than is realistic, that accountability policies encourage narrowing of the curriculum and teaching to the test, that vouchers have accumulated no significant evidence of effectiveness, that «virtual charter schools» are a ripoff of taxpayers, and that there are more effective policy solutions that are far from test - based accountability and «school choice» policies: social services for poor families, early childhood education, protecting the autonomy of teachers and elected school boards, reducing class sizes, eliminating for - profit companies and chains from operating charter schools, and aggressively fighting racial and socioeconomic segregation in schools.