Sentences with phrase «unequal schools»

Teacher evaluations, incessant standardized testing, privatization, closing school, etc, etc — these are some of Malloy's «answers» to the unequal schools that exist in the state of Connecticut.

Segregated, unequal schools are the product of conscious policies.

Separate and unequal schools were illegal and even separate but equal schools were illegal.

The idea of society providing a quality, comprehensive education for all children is inspiring and attainable, but the old model for delivering that education — a monolithic government entity led by politicians with a captive audience of students forced into grossly unequal schools — has got to go, one of the nation's pioneers in public school reform told a Tulane audience on Thursday.

The focus on monitoring outcomes ignores the problems created by separate and unequal schools.

This country can not continue its acceptance of separate, unequal schools.

Co-locations have prevented public schools from growing enrollment and programming and have led to separate and unequal schools.

«With half - a-million children trapped in NYC's separate and unequal schools, parents will hold a day of action in Albany to support charter schools, which are a critical solution to education inequality,» Jeremiah Kittredge, FES» CEO, said in a statement sent to POLITICO New York.

«New Yorkers are looking for new and bold leadership to fix our unequal schools and broken infrastructure; invest in good jobs and health care for all; and address economic and racial inequality.

Nixon, 51, is a longtime education activist who has criticized the state for what she calls unequal school funding.

School finance reformers have long lamented the Supreme Court's 1973 decision in San Antonio v. Rodriguez, which held that absent intentional discrimination, unequal school spending is not unconstitutional.

3) The tests show how unequal the school system is, and identify which schools need more help and resources because their students are falling behind.

An unusually broad coalition in Michigan is urging voters next week to tackle the state's long - running problems of high property taxes and unequal school spending by linking them together under the banner of statewide tax reform.

«Until school admissions are properly policed we will continue to have a highly divided and unequal schooling system and society.»

Opting out is a disaster for kids who have been trapped in a separate and unequal school system for way too long.

Stanford University economist Eric Hanushek, a fellow at the libertarian Hoover Institute, has been making this argument for three decades in academic papers, op - eds and courtrooms, where he is often called to testify in defense of unequal school funding schemes in which rich towns receive disproportionate state aid compared with their high - poverty peers.

Instead, this pamphlet - sized book offers brilliant political analysis, providing context for the nine days when Chicago teachers took on neoliberalism and the unequal school system it would create.

The audience energy increased when a spectator posed a question about creating two separate and unequal school systems.

The fact that the income achievement gap is large when children enter kindergarten — and does not grow substantially during the school years — suggests that the primary cause of the gap is not unequal school quality.

Not exact matches

Their schools are also grossly unequal.

And yet schools are starkly unequal, often along economic and racial lines, he said.

WHAT: The 2017 - 2018 executive budget underfunds schools, removes protections for disabled and special needs children, and promotes privatization and the unequal allocation of scant resources.

Those who support a convention say dramatic action is required to address corruption charges that have forced more than 30 officials out of office in a decade as well as issues such as New York's high taxes, unequal funding of schools, and the influence of big - money donors in campaigns.

Today New York schools are the second most unequal in the entire country.

Nixon, 51, has been a longtime advocate for more funding for public schools and a critic of what she calls unequal distribution of education funds.

He looks at charter schools as «separate but unequal.»

Larry Spring, superintendent of the Schenectady School District, said existing state funding formulas were already unequal — a long - held belief of many upstate districts.

Under this governor, New York is the single most unequal state in the country, and the gap between our richest and poorest schools is wider than it's ever been.

«New York's schools are the second most unequal in the entire country,» Nixon, the former Sex and the City star, said in her kickoff speech in March, «and the gap between the richest and the poorest schools has grown wider today, under Andrew Cuomo, than it's ever been.»

Charles Khan is an organizer at the Strong Economy For All Coalition, a coalition of labor unions and community groups focusing on legislative - driven campaigns to fight economic inequality, unequal funding of public schools, and corporate irresponsibility in New York State.

They are promoting a dual school system, separate and unequal.

«Policies supported by the Democratic and Republican parties in this state are creating a dual school system: separate and unequal.

Cuomo again slammed the city's 10 - year timeline for shutting down the troubled jail complex at Rikers, calling it either «gross incompetence» or «a statement that you just don't care» - as well as unequal funding distribution for schools.

In some school communities, like New York City, many poor and minority students are attending under - resourced schools that are not only separate and isolated, but that are also just as unequal as they were in the mid-20th century.

Forty - six years after Brown, it pointed out, «our schools are still separate and unequal.»

The reason: racially and socioeconomically isolated schools tend to have unequal educational resources, higher drop out rates, and prepare students poorly for life after high school.

States Step Up Efforts to Reduce School Segregation In response to a state Supreme Court ruling that children in Hartfords urban schools were receiving an inferior and unequal education, Connecticut stepped up efforts to improve the education of urban schools.

Parents would not want to go back to a system built on unequal access to schools, but they don't want to be denied options in the interest of maintaining quotas or forcing all children in a neighborhood to attend the same school whether it meets their needs or not.

: Culture, Institutions and the Unequal Effects of School Choice (New York: Teachers College Press, 1996).

Michael Petrilli called the Department's recent warning that it would take a closer look at these within - district allocations «meddling,» but it's shameful that our public policies disproportionately place students of color in schools with poor lighting, unsafe or temporary structures, and unequal access to technology and curriculum.

While the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision Brown vs. Board of Education ordered schools desegregated, many schools remain segregated, and because of that, unequal.

Culture, Institutions, and the Unequal Effects of School Choice (ed.

She adds, «The rhetoric of local control obscures separate and unequal conditions that have resulted when small, new school systems form that are racially identifiable.

Rather, we need to double down on redesigning the experiences of students in order to re-engineer the unequal results that schools currently produce.

«Though our schools will be our first major institutions to experience non-white majorities,» says Orfield, «our research consistently shows that schools are becoming increasingly segregated and are offering students vastly unequal educational opportunities.

Almost a half century after the U.S. Supreme Court concluded that Southern school segregation was unconstitutional and «inherently unequal,» a new study from The Civil Rights Project of Harvard University shows that segregation continued to intensify throughout the 1990s.

A coach who alleged school district retaliation for his complaints about unequal treatment of his girls» high school basketball team had no right to sue under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, a federal appeals court has ruled.

Following the Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954 that read, «Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal,» many of the schools closed or were repurposed by churches and civic groups.

Public television turns its cameras on education this month, airing specials that focus on unequal access to public education and the nationwide movement to make schooling more relevant to careers and jobs.

Commenting on the figures, Teach First's CEO Brett Wigdortz said, «Every parent wants the best for their child, but as the costs of housing have soared over the years, parents from low - income backgrounds face an unequal choice to ensure that their children's school offers what's best for them.