Sentences with phrase «thousands of children of color»

«Buffalo is a better place today because Carl Paladino no longer has any power or authority over the lives of tens of thousands of children of color in the Buffalo Public Schools,» the Buffalo chapter of Showing up for Racial Justice, which has staged a series of anti-Paladino protests, said in a statement.

«Only democrat not taking tons of money from the teachers union which is the largest single lobby to the democrats... if not for Cuomo, thousands of children of color and white middle class kids would have been forced out of the charter schools their parents fought hard to get their kids into,» she wrote.

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August 28, 1963: Two hundred thousand Americans participate in the March on Washington and hear Martin Luther King, Jr., proclaim his dream of a country in which his children will be judged by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin; ten months later, Congress enacts the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

The one unambiguous, reform - driven victory of the last two decades has been the successful networks of urban charter schools that we used to call «no excuses» schools before the term, which once meant there's no excuse for adults to fail children, fell into disrepute and it became de rigueur within the movement to criticize those schools» discipline practices instead of applauding them for sending tens of thousands of low - income kids of color to college, which not long ago was nearly the entire point of the movement.

The student plaintiffs argue that Connecticut's actions, which the State knows are causing severe harm to tens of thousands of students of color and those from low - income families, infringe upon the constitutional rights of Connecticut children.

As a result of these restrictions, thousands of children — mostly poor children and children of color — have been left behind.

These tests deny diplomas to tens of thousands of students, disproportionately children of color, immigrants or youth with special needs; they do not improve college or career prospects but feed the school - to - prison pipeline; new Common Core tests are likely to increase the dropout rate; and more.

Death by a Thousand Cuts: Racism, School Closures, and Public School Sabotage, a stunning report released this week by Journey for Justice (J4J), cuts through the ideological babble on school «reform» and lets us listen as «voices from America's affected communities of color» — parents, students, and community leaders — tell us how school closures and privatization are affecting them, their neighborhoods, and their children.

That's why hundreds of thousands of low - income families of color are on charter school waiting lists across the country right now, desperately hoping for the chance to get their children out of their dismal traditional public schools.