Sentences with phrase «segregation by race»

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.

And when someone — several someones — deliberately invoke civil rights history by talking about people being forced to sit at the back of the bus, then they are specially referencing segregation by race.

Spatial inequality, or segregation by race, is one of the most defining features of American history.

From a variety of perspectives, our panelists will examine the state of segregation by race and class in America's schools, and the promising initiatives and practices that are emerging in the renewed movement to integrate America's schools.

It is also double segregation by both race and poverty.

A recent government survey showed that segregation by race and class in the nation's public schools is getting worse, not better.

The committee suggested, therefore, that we should «be at least as concerned about segregation by income as segregation by race.»

«Neither of those appear to have been considered to date as we have significant segregation by race as well as income, special needs and Limited English Proficiency between charter schools and their sending districts, and we have charter schools draining necessary resources from public school districts,» she said.

«There's sharp residential segregation by race, by poverty,» he said.

There are two ways to integrate schools: through public school choice that overcomes neighborhood segregation by race and class; and through housing integration that makes neighborhood schools integrated institutions.

Segregation by income very often moves in tandem with segregation by race.

School Choice and Segregation by Race, Class, and Achievement (Boulder, Colo.: National Education Policy Center).

The result is voluntary school segregation by race for whites and blacks, which is entirely consistent with a large literature demonstrating that Americans prefer to live among co-ethnics, and that this preference is particular strong for blacks.

Segregation by race and income continues to menace our public schools, as does inequitable allocation of resources.

John Eligon and Robert Gebeloff penned a terrific though sobering analysis of the combination of policies contributing to residential segregation by race, irrespective of income.

The study, Resegregation in American Schools, analyzes the latest data from the National Center of Education Statistics» Common Core of Education Statistics, and examines changes in racial composition in American schools, national patterns of segregation, the relationship between segregation by race and schools experiencing concentrated poverty, the difference in segregation in different regions and types of school districts, and the extent and segregation of multiracial schools.

The New York City school system's magnet - schools admissions procedure appears to offer students a choice of schools without leading to increased segregation by race or class, a new study asserts.

For Latino immigrant children segregation by race and poverty has intensified over the last three decades.

If so, then residential segregation by race may lead to the selection of schools with more African - American students.

Income segregation among black and Latino families is now much higher than among white families, which means that low - income communities of color suffer more than ever from a double segregation by race and class.

«The roots of low achievement for some schools and students lie in concentrated poverty, segregation by race and class, and underfunding,» Hawkins said.

We have the most segregation by both race and class in housing and schools.

Residential segregation by race, age or social or economic class would no longer be a major problem, for the whole city would be a single unit.

Not exact matches

Why, asks John Leo in U.S. News & World Report, is his own constituency so willing to bring him down with protests, disrupted basketball games, and boycotts, when Pres. Lawrence worked so hard to make Rutgers a campus that «bristles with the enforcement tools of diversity: a speech code, real courses replaced by «multicultural curricular change,» diversity awareness «training» in lectures and freshman orientation sessions, a tolerance for ethnic and racial segregation in dorms («a self - affirming environment,» as Lawrence puts it), and professors who learn not to raise unapproved ideas about race, gender, and the campus power system built around multiculturalism»?

Pointing to such factors as a low minimum wage, the declining number of well - paying manufacturing jobs, and the continuing segregation of jobs by race and sex, they argue that the central issue is the availability and quality of work.

Segregation sustains racial stereotypes, facilitates identification by race, preserves traditional arbitrary racial taboos, and aids the suppression of those who would challenge the inequities of the existing system.

Forbidden by segregation to compete in an official meet with the state's black champ — a guy everybody called Cornelius Mitchell, who years later would become the first African - American signed by the Washington Redskins, a future Hall of Fame flanker known as Bobby Mitchell — the two boys from Hot Springs met on a track that had gone to seed and went head - to - head in a series of informal races.

Certainly no real estate agent has ever, say, participated in discrimination or worsened segregation by sending clients to different locations based on their race.

Moreover, housing segregation in New York's metropolitan regions is among the highest in the nation by race and class.

One implication of the different spatial distribution of people by race is that lots of metropolitan areas have de facto segregated schools, while Brown v. Board of Education and the cases that followed were quite effective in requiring schools in small towns and rural areas with racially mixed populations to be integrated, since they don't have many schools period and don't have nearly as great residential segregation into large nearly mono - racial groups of neighborhoods the way that many large cities do.

«The result has been a steadily growing increase in segregation of housing and schools by both race and class since the 1960s in New York.

«Real education reform requires broader social reform to end poverty concentrated in disadvantaged communities by race and class segregation,» Hawkins said.

Striking a historic blow at racial segregation, the unanimous 1954 ruling found that laws separating elementary and secondary students by race violated black students» constitutional right to equal protection under the law.

In the absence of race - based constraints, some reform efforts that aim to improve school quality, such as charter schools, open enrollment, magnet schools, and vouchers, may intensify segregation by income, race, or achievement (see «A Closer Look at Charter Schools and Segregation,» check the facts, Susegregation by income, race, or achievement (see «A Closer Look at Charter Schools and Segregation,» check the facts, SuSegregation,» check the facts, Summer 2010).

The decision was momentous for the opposite reason: it halted the startlingly short - lived national effort to desegregate public schools, heavily segregated by race because of widespread segregation in housing.

But there would be no low - income (or high - income) communities if there were no segregation by income and race in the housing market.

«This is what we are talking about when we look at interaction between race and neighborhood — it's something not explained by income but explained by the segregation of neighborhoods,» he said, adding that the problem is so tenacious that it affects generation after generation of African Americans.

I would want to address the growing segregation of public schools by race and class.

Orfield and his colleagues concede that the segregation is not due to the explicitly racist laws that prescribed school attendance by race.

Segregation (by race, by wealth, by language) creates huge obstacles to student achievement.

If anything, they should realize that laws that limit school choice by residence have exactly the same results in terms of racial segregation and inferior education as the laws limiting school choice by race that the NAACP is so rightfully famous for doing away with.

Charters, by severing the tie between residential neighborhood segregation and school segregation, might help reinvent the old idea of the American common school, where students of different races, incomes, and religions could come and learn together under a single schoolhouse roof.

Shanker believed having separate schools by race and class was inherently undemocratic, and he and some other early charter school backers saw charters as a way of breaking down 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.

Other possible reasons why public school segregation increased as neighborhoods became more integrated include gerrymandering of public school attendance zones by race or class and other decisions made by local public school boards.

A New Wave of School Integration Districts and Charters Pursuing Socioeconomic Diversity shows responses to greater segregation today by race than in 1970s, despite decades of research showing academic, cognitive, and social benefits of integrated schools.

Private Action with «Neutral» Intent The fourth area impacting residential segregation, and the one proving hardest to combat, is the exacerbation of spatial inequality by the choices of private citizens that are not motivated by race, but by other factors that are often correlated with race; these factors have racialized consequences when acted upon.

All persons shall be entitled to be free, at any establishment or place, from discrimination or segregation of any kind on the ground of race, color, religion, or national origin, if such discrimination or segregation is or purports to be required by any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, rule, or order of a State or any agency or political subdivision thereof.