Sentences with phrase «reduced segregation of»

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.

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In addition to some proprietary methods, ABI uses gravimetrics — which is the use of gravity to move a product — to reduce the vulnerability to segregation in its blends.

Punitive segregation for adolescents is being eliminated and the maximum amount of time for other inmates is being reduced to 30 days from 90 days.

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.

They also call for affirmative measures to reduce racial and socio - economic segregation, which is the most extreme in New York of any state in the nation.

Historically, student assignment policies were meant to reduce segregation and enhance diversity; however, current student choice policies and how they affect diversity in an era of increasing segregation haven't been analyzed.

«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.»

This leads to reduced asymmetry of damaged protein segregation (on the right).

This leads to reduced asymmetry of damaged protein segregation with increasing age of the stem cell.

Jointly with Philipp Hergovich from the University of Vienna, I have shown with a formal mathematical model how those extra connections can quickly reduce the racial segregation of a society.

She claims the standards are «another excuse to avoid making serious efforts to reduce the main causes of low student achievement: poverty and racial 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.

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 program reduced the level of racial segregation in the state.

If one examines the context more specifically, one finds that the districts» plans reflect efforts to overcome a history of segregation, embody the results of broad experience and community consultation, seek to expand student choice while reducing the need for mandatory busing, and use race - conscious criteria in highly limited ways that diminish the use of race compared to preceding integration efforts.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In Louisiana, an initiative reduced segregation in the education system, but the families who took advantage of the program did not experience the newfound integration.

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.

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.

I have heard of the cost segregation method and also using a seller financed sale to spread or reduce the effect of capital gains tax.

Congress approves Public Housing reforms to reduce segregation by race and income, encourage and reward work, bring more working families into public housing, and increase the availability of subsidized housing for very poor families.