Sentences with phrase «school segregation reflected»

In 1956, a memo for the Seattle School Board reported that school segregation reflected not only segregated housing patterns but also school board policies that permitted white students to transfer out of black schools while restricting the transfer of black students into white schools.

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Thus, Northern school districts usually reflect housing segregation rates, which are highest there.

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.

Neighborhood schools have also been associated with de facto segregation, as they reflect the demographics of their neighborhood.

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.

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.

In extreme cases, however, attendance zones are deliberately drawn to exclude poor students from affluent schools.60 However, gerrymandering attendance zones is far less common than drawing zones that merely reflect the characteristics of the local area.61 Most school assignment systems sort students based on their place of residence, mimicking patterns of housing 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.

By working with parents to examine their privilege and understand that their impact matters more than their intentions, Integrated Schools prepares parents to support meaningfully integrated classrooms that reflect the diversity of their district as well as school communities that respect ALL families and are galvanized around supporting ALL children Through national organizing to promote local action, we support, educate, develop and mobilize families to «live their values,» disrupt segregation, and leverage their choices for the well - being and futures for their own children, for all children, and for our democracy.

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