Sentences with phrase «unequal systems»

We reject the bad - faith manipulation found in SB 1362 which legitimizes using scant dollars meant for our public schools to create separate, unequal systems of tax - payer funded schools.
Lucas and other House Democrats held a press conference today railing against the legislation, saying it would create separate and unequal systems of educating children.
The impact of this idea is being fiercely felt today with state legislatures spending billions of tax dollars to fund separate, unfair and unequal systems of publicly funded education choices, including private school vouchers championed by Betsy DeVos and Jeb Bush.
«Today when less than 20 % of students in our state are black, but over 90 % of the students consigned to neighborhood schools that perform in the bottom 5 % are black, we have to take a critical look at how we have let the blood, sweat, and tears of freedom fighting generations past turn into today's segregated and unequal systems of schools.
America has a uniquely unequal system of higher education.
«It is absurd that Connecticut's current funding system severely underfunds urban schools and keeps high performing schools of choice, like the one my children attend, in a separate and unequal system,» she said.
An unequal system where some schools have more money, smaller class sizes, and the latest in technology while most are underfunded, have overcrowded classes, and are left with crumbling, outdated facilities.
The Charter School Turnaround Heist, HB 5105 by Rep Diaz, does exactly what Rep. Kionne McGhee said in the Tampa Bay Times, «This bill, in my humble opinion, creates a separate but unequal system» that «runs afoul» of the state and U.S. Constitutions»
The Charter School Turnaround Heist, HB 5105 by Rep Diaz, does exactly what Rep. Kionne McGhee said in the Tampa Bay Times, «This bill, in my humble opinion, creates a separate but unequal system» that «runs afoul» of the state and U.S. Constitutions» Charter school lobbyists, led by Rep. Diaz wrote HB 5105 to trigger the...
Although the state sends more money to higher need school districts it doesn't make up the gulf created by a blatantly unequal system substantially funded through local property taxes.
8) National: Jennifer Berkshire and Noliwe Rooks discuss segrenomics, «the combination of the segregation that continues to define education in the US, and economics — whole industries that make money off of our unequal system.
If other school systems opt for the New Orleans Model, they need to do so knowing that the result will be a separate and unequal system of «college prep» and «prison prep» schools.»

Not exact matches

While inequality in market outcomes have been increasing since the beginning of the eighties, the tax system seems to have compensated this rise until the early nineties, at which point after - tax income also started growing more unequal.
Also, there is nothing wrong with being sexually aroused by naked men or women, the disturbing thing with the unequal power of division (or lack of division) of power in society produces systems where women continuously lessened, by objectification (more than) men.
This reflects fairer parental leave systems and less unequal pay.
It reveals that too often midwives report their efforts are constrained by unequal power relations within the health system.
For neighbourhood organisations, parties not only coordinated the democratic transition with the military, they agreed to implement an unequal economic system that strengthened class segregation.
Higher education is evolving into a caste system with separate and unequal tiers that take in students from different socio - economic backgrounds and leave them more unequal than when they first enrolled.
They have profited from the creation of a separate and unequal shadow education system at the expense of students, their families and all taxpayers.»
By raising and spending money in avoidance of the cap and the CFB system, the Mayor has not only created an unequal playing field but used the system to attempt to boost his standing with the voters and deter potential challengers in the coming election.»
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.
The legacy of communist times — in particular, the traditional underfunding of science and inefficient research system — puts Eastern European scientists on unequal footing with Western groups, Pál says.
Gender inequalities facilitate unequal exchanges at the global level of the coffee exchange, as well as the micro levels, Austin explains in her latest paper, «Brewing Unequal Exchanges in Coffee: A Qualitative Investigation into the Consequences Of The Java Trade In Rural Uganda,» published in the Journal of World - Systems Reunequal exchanges at the global level of the coffee exchange, as well as the micro levels, Austin explains in her latest paper, «Brewing Unequal Exchanges in Coffee: A Qualitative Investigation into the Consequences Of The Java Trade In Rural Uganda,» published in the Journal of World - Systems ReUnequal Exchanges in Coffee: A Qualitative Investigation into the Consequences Of The Java Trade In Rural Uganda,» published in the Journal of World - Systems Research.
«We use the functionality and advantages of both components,» says the study's lead author, Dr. Helge Hattermann, «The combination of the two unequal quantum systems could enable us to create a real quantum processor with superconducting quantum lattices, atomic quantum storage, and photonic qubits.»
Noble, author of «Chocolate and the Consumption of Forests: A Cross-National Examination of Ecologically Unequal Exchange in Cocoa Exports,» recently published in the Journal of World - Systems Research, says this further impairs possibilities for successful or sustainable development in less - developed nations.
That system has led to unequal access to organs, forcing some patients, especially those in high population areas, to suffer worsening illness and progress closer to death before receiving transplants.
I'm glad Peele went a different way, because his movie isn't really about «the system» — or maybe it is, but it's about a system of which unequal justice is only one manifestation.
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.
The negative effects are those one would expect in a market system: an increase in inequality, unequal educational achievement, and unequal wages in adult life.
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.
The question facing pension advocates is how long they want to protect this unequal and unfair system.
In an «equitable» school system, students» special needs and unequal socioeconomic backgrounds are recognised and resources (for example, teaching expertise) are distributed unequally in an attempt to redress disadvantage due to personal and social circumstances.
You wrote: «In an «equitable» school system, students» special needs and unequal socioeconomic backgrounds are recognised and resources (for example, teaching expertise) are distributed unequally in an attempt to redress disadvantage due to personal and social circumstances.
It's easy to argue that the current system provides equal pay for unequal work, as two teachers with the same education and experience can vary widely in their effectiveness in the classroom.
The K — 12 system remains overwhelmingly unequal, and chaining Pell eligibility to it even further ensures that both ends of the educational process remain unequally distributed.
Then there's the unequal distribution of wealth through a global economic system that has the super-poor work for almost nothing to supply the super-markets of the super-rich.
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.
Given that the ADA reported by the state varies from district to district and if the «revenue limits» are constant across districts, then I'd say that the system is totally unequal and subject to manipulation by the likes of Superintendent Deasy, who claimed, in his «state of the district» address (http://lausd.wistia.com/medias/douylpe31y) that LAUSD only gets «5,221 pathetic dollars» while New York spends $ 17k.
Today, as we celebrate Martin Luther King, jr., I am thinking about the continuing plight of black boys and men in America, especially the issue of unequal treatment by our school system — including with regard to discipline and punishment — and the related reality of our nation maintaining a massive prison complex disproportionately filled with black and brown men.
«Until school admissions are properly policed we will continue to have a highly divided and unequal schooling system and society.»
The system is already unequal enough, no need to make it worse.
Yet America's public school system remains deeply segregated and unequal in terms of both race and income.
Sixty years after Brown v. Board of Education ruled that separate was inherently unequal and put an end to dejure segregation, many students of color — particularly black, Hispanic, and some Asian American and Pacific Islander students — still have to fight for their constitutional right to a high - quality public education in what has emerged as a system of de facto school segregation.
«When we talk about whether or not education is the great equalizer, I don't even think we can ever get there, if the funding system is so unequal and inequitable,» Hinojosa said.
The truth, as researcher Linda Darling - Hammond has stated, is that «the U.S. educational system is one of the most unequal in the industrialized world, and students routinely receive dramatically different learning opportunities based on their social status.
Opting out is a disaster for kids who have been trapped in a separate and unequal school system for way too long.
In the closing paragraphs of Savage Inequalities, Jonathon Kozol exposes the effect of unequal public school funding systems, noting: «From the top of the hill... the horizon is so wide and open... one wonders what might happen to the spirits of these children if they had a chance to breathe this air and stretch their arms and see so far... Standing there by the [river]... one is struck by the sheer beauty of this country, of its goodness and unrealized goodness, of the limitless potential that it holds to render life rewarding and the spirit clean.
«A «state's rights» educational system is structured to be «separate and unequal — 50 states, 3,067 counties, tens of thousands of cities, 15,000 school districts and 85,000 schools — all «separate and unequal,» each with varying degrees of opportunity, funding and quality,» says Sharpton.
Citizens are left with a separate, unequal and unfair caste system funded by public dollars.
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