Sentences with phrase «socioeconomic integration»

Ask your state board of education to include progress toward racial and socioeconomic integration in its statewide accountability system.

The new competitive funding program would offer planning and implementation grants for voluntary, community - developed socioeconomic integration plans.

But unlike the current system, student - based budgeting supports socioeconomic integration, as schools receive more local money to educate poor children, they say.

Finally, the authors identified a handful of districts that have implemented socioeconomic integration policies and have relatively low levels of economic segregation.

In addition to federal policy, school districts and charter networks across the country are doing their part to promote racial and socioeconomic integration by considering socioeconomic factors in student assignment policies.

Parents would express preferences among a cluster of schools, and an algorithm would make matches by balancing personal preferences with the shared civic goal of maximizing socioeconomic integration.

The conference provides an opportunity to learn about racial and socioeconomic integration incentives in current and proposed federal policies, regulations and spending programs.

Encourage state to adopt progress toward racial and socioeconomic integration as a fifth indicator.

It prioritizes the creation of magnet schools that promote socioeconomic integration and diversity.

«The Mayors» Charter Schools: Innovation facilitates socioeconomic integration and high performance,» by Michael Magee

After the 2007 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1, which limited the voluntary use of race in school assignment plans, 33 the number of schools and districts using socioeconomic integration policies grew rapidly.

Take socioeconomic integration.

Supported by research showing that socioeconomic integration correlates with academic achievement, more district leaders are looking at new levers, like housing and student assignment policies, to diversify schools.

Socioeconomic integration improves student outcomes because mixed - income schools are more likely to have certain resources or characteristics that foster achievement.

Some charter schools pursuing socioeconomic integration have shown how systems of school choice can be used to foster diversity as an alternative to redrawing attendance zones.

In Wake County, North Carolina, frequent student reassignments created controversy over the school district's long - standing socioeconomic integration plan.

Research supporting socioeconomic integration goes back to the famous Coleman Report, which found that the strongest school - related predictor of student achievement was the socioeconomic composition of the student body (Coleman et al., 1966).

Suburban residents can also join the lottery for places in the interdistrict magnet schools, which reserve a certain number of seats for suburban residents to help facilitate racial and socioeconomic integration [12].

In coordination with the National Coalition on School Diversity, Magnet Schools of America has promoted this action and also recommends that states include racial and socioeconomic integration goals in their accountability systems.

This improvement in test scores is attributed to the fact that racial and socioeconomic integration creates more equitable access to experienced teachers, good facilities, more challenging curriculum, and more funding for students (Wells et al. 2016).

Intensive community education and input to the development of socioeconomic integration plans is one of the biggest hurdles school integration efforts face.

While the report suggests the numbers of racial minorities in charters should be higher, it's more important for charter schools to support socioeconomic integration and for students to be exposed to other students from all racial and ethnic backgrounds.

Genesee Community Charter School in Rochester is serving as an example of socioeconomic integration in Rochester schools.

To what extent do magnets further goals of racial or socioeconomic integration?

It restricts families» education options and imposes a top - down, government - run, social - engineering scheme based on somebody's view of the value of racial and socioeconomic integration.

It should include more (and better) specialized charters created in systematic ways: schools that focus on STEM, career and technical education, high - ability learners, special education, socioeconomic integration, and other realms within the K — 12 universe that cry out for better options than what's there today.

Last semester students from Mehta's class presented a 22 - page wiki site focused on a wide range of hot topics in education policy including desegregation and METCO, teacher preparation, merit pay, and socioeconomic integration of schools.

This indicates that while there are many reasons why school districts and states might want to seek to integrate relatively advantaged and relatively disadvantaged students within the same school, it appears unlikely that a policy goal of reducing the test score gap between students in these groups will be realized through further socioeconomic integration (at least once there gets to be the degree of socioeconomic integration necessary to be part of this study to begin with).

Should Washington, D.C. assign students to schools in a way that provides some socioeconomic integration?

Overcoming the attendant challenges requires an adroit school leader who understands the value of racial and socioeconomic integration, who can infuse optimism into the integration skeptics within the school community, and who can skillfully shepherd such a motley flock.

He is aware that «it is unfashionable these days to talk seriously about ways to increase racial and socioeconomic integration.

In 2007, about 40 districts were implementing socioeconomic integration plans; by 2016, that figure more than doubled to 100 school districts and charter networks, according to The Century Foundation.34 Today, 4.4 million students attend school districts or charter school networks with socioeconomic integration plans — representing about 8 percent of the public schooling population.

In late 2014, the state launched a first - of - its - kind desegregation plan — the Socioeconomic Integration Pilot program — using federal School Improvement Grant, or SIG, funds.

Districts should also focus on methods of socioeconomic integration that increase the availability of special programs and improve school quality.

Not only does the bipartisan legislation promote high - quality choices for parents, but it does so by acknowledging the importance of racial and socioeconomic integration and diversity.

The law prioritizes racially and socioeconomically diverse charter schools and reauthorizes MSAP to increase racial and socioeconomic integration with magnet schools.

However, from the field notes collected at the school fairs and open houses we visited, racial and socioeconomic integration were rarely mentioned.