Sentences with phrase «reflect residential segregation»

Supporters of DeVos and her initiatives argue that it's unrealistic to demand racial integration, since school district demographics reflect residential segregation that is beyond the remit of educational reformers.

Charter schools have the potential to be more economically and racially integrated than neighborhood public schools because they don't have to reflect residential segregation.

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 drawn.

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In Seattle, the plaintiffs alleged that school segregation unconstitutionally reflected not only generalized societal discrimination and residential housing patterns, but also school board policies and actions that had helped to create, maintain, and aggravate racial segregation.

However, most districts are using value - added to rank teachers across the district, and in districts that reflect neighborhood residential segregation, value - added rankings will compare teachers who teach very different types of students.

Many choices have led to our economically segregated school system.1 Districts have chosen to let school boundaries reflect or even amplify residential segregation.