Sentences with phrase «white suburban»

Inclusive Communities alleged that the Texas Department of Housing and Community affairs had violated the federal Fair Housing Act by allocating too many tax credits to housing developments in predominantly black inner - city areas and too few in predominantly white suburban neighborhoods.

From John Hughes on down, the white suburban teenager is a cherished figure in American culture, and that may give their pleas heightened visibility — even, perhaps, across party lines.

And while it's impossible to say whether a particular all - white suburban jury will be less sympathetic to his version of events than one that includes urban African - Americans, there's no doubt that this is a statistically - measurable fact that your client (and you, in my opinion) need to carefully consider.

The recent Matisse / Diebenkorn exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) features a Matisse painting of Notre - Dame next to a California landscape by Richard Diebenkorn, with a river of dark asphalt leading to a hill where a pair of white suburban houses echo the French cathedral's towers.

This fragment of art by the epitome of middle class white suburban taste superimposed upon a foggy monochrome by a young black woman embodies the aesthetic collisions that are so rewarding in her work.

Valerie Strauss of the Washington Post reports that Duncan said, «It's fascinating to me that some of the pushback is coming from, sort of, white suburban moms who — all of a sudden — their child isn't as brilliant as they thought they were and their school isn't quite as good as they thought they were, and that's pretty scary.

The subtext here is clear: Duncan is asserting that «white suburban moms,» driven by the goal of providing advantages for their own children, are resisting the implementation of the Common Core because it exposes fears that their children really aren't doing very well in school.

Education Secretary Arne Duncan last month blamed some of the Core backlash on «white suburban moms who — all of a sudden — their child isn't as brilliant as they thought they were, and their school isn't quite as good as they thought they were.»

Democrats from Arne Duncan on down are trying to frame the growing nationwide revolt by parents, K - 12 educators, university professors, and child development specialists as «Tea Party extremism» or overwrought «white suburban moms.»

Black students in white suburbs also have experiences associated with white suburban education, such as going on field trips and having project based learning experiences, which are considered optimal learning experiences in American society (Lewis, 2003).

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan learned it last year when he criticized «white suburban moms.»

When the former Education Secretary, Arne Duncan, made a statement, «The Opt Out Movement is led by white suburban mom's because they don't want to hear their children aren't as smart as they think they are,» many parents across the nation were infuriated.

State Commissioner John King and the Board of Regents dismissed parent complaints, and Secretary Arne Duncan brushed them off as the whining of «white suburban moms» who were disappointed to learn that their child was not as brilliant as they thought and their public school was not as good as they thought.

«It's fascinating to me that some of the pushback is coming from, sort of, white suburban moms who — all of a sudden — their child isn't as brilliant as they thought they were and their school isn't quite as good as they thought they were, and that's pretty scary.

Lawmakers pander to white suburban voters.

.@arneduncan says foes of Common Core = white suburban moms who find their «child isn't as brilliant as they thought» & «that's pretty scary

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan told a group of state schools superintendents Friday that he found it «fascinating» that some of the opposition to the Common Core State Standards has come from «white suburban moms who — all of a sudden — their child isn't as brilliant as they thought they were, and their school isn't quite as good as they thought they were.»

In a November 17, 2013 speech to state school superintendents, then U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan commented that it was «fascinating» that some of the opposition to the Common Core was coming from «white suburban moms who — all of a sudden — their child isn't as brilliant as they thought they were, and their school isn't quite as good as they thought it was.»

Efforts to reverse it have included a court - ordered program that has been busing thousands of black St. Louis students to mostly white suburban schools since the early 1980s.

In fact, your «white suburban moms» comment shows that you measure intelligence and the success of schools by test scores.

Arne Duncan Makes Wild Claim About Why Some «White Suburban Moms» Oppose #CommonCore http://t.co/B5mHUxxUIc (@HarrietBaldwin)

Even if minority voters aren't entirely won over, Dowd said, GOP candidates still benefit from talking up school choice: «It gives the message to moderate white suburban voters that they're tolerant, they're expansive — they care.»

In a blog post on the department website, Duncan said when he mentioned the white suburban moms, he had been trying to «encourage a difficult conversation and challenge the underlying assumption that when we talk about the need to improve our nation's schools, we are only talking about poor minority students in inner cities.»

Duncan told a gathering of state superintendents of education on Friday that «white suburban moms» were upset because their kids were doing poorly on new, more rigorous exams linked to Common Core.

Duncan, a white suburban dad who has two children in public schools, said he knows that «no one enjoys hearing tough news from school.»

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan touched off a torrent of criticism last November when he told a group of state school superintendents that opposition to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) was coming from «white suburban moms who — all of a sudden — their child isn't as brilliant as they thought they were, and their school isn't quite as good as they thought.»

The fact is, the children of the white suburban moms Duncan mentioned had been doing just fine.

White suburban moms, among many others, have certainly played an important role in organizing resistance to high - stakes tests in actions that have led to important victories in Texas, New York, and beyond as they fight to defend their children from abuse by a multibillion - dollar testing industry that is homogenizing education and draining resources from cash strapped school districts.

«Education Secretary Arne Duncan, who has been supportive of the new rules, didn't help the cause when he said in November that opposition comes from «white suburban moms who [find]-- all of a sudden — their child isn't as brilliant as they thought they were, and their school isn't quite as good as they thought they were.»

Education Secretary Arne Duncan dismissed these concerns, telling a group of state school superintendents at Richmond, Va., on Nov 15: «It's fascinating to me that some of the pushback is coming from, sort of, white suburban moms who — all of a sudden — their child isn't as brilliant as they thought they were.»

In 2013, former federal education secretary Arne Duncan famously portrayed the opposition to Common Core standards and tests as a bunch of «white suburban moms» upset that their precious children were being challenged.

As parent and Connecticut journalist Sarah Darer Littman recently explained, «Democrats from Arne Duncan on down are trying to frame the growing nationwide revolt by parents, K - 12 educators, university professors, and child development specialists as «Tea Party extremism» or overwrought «white suburban moms.»

In 1989, Elizabeth Horton Sheff began a crusade against Connecticut on behalf of minority students in the state, demonstrating Black and Latino schools in urban areas were less privileged than those of the white suburban schools.

Charles F. Coleman, Jr. supported this last ditch effort for the «testocracy» when he took up former Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's argument that opposition to standardized testing was only from out of touch «white suburban moms.»

In particular, Gabriel's dissertation studies how Latina / o youth navigate their schooling by examining their enactments of identity and efforts to forge community in a predominately white suburban high school.

«The two, white suburban legislators, they propose that the white county executive appoint a commissioner who will have parallel authority to the democratically elected school board, and in my book, that's an attack on the democratic rights of the citizens of Milwaukee, the majority of whom are black and brown,» Peterson says.

It should give people pause when two white suburban legislators propose having a white county executive appoint a «commissioner» to be able to pluck schools away from the democratically elected school board of an overwhelmingly nonwhite district.

If Americans know Education Secretary Arne Duncan for anything at this point, it would be as that guy who claimed last week that opposition to the Common Core national K - 12 educational standards sprang from «white suburban moms» who feared that tougher requirements would reveal their children to be as not «brilliant» as they thought.

One of those strategies was the elimination of the Chapter 220 program, which allowed for students of color from high - poverty neighborhoods to attend schools in predominantly white suburban school districts.

Secretary Arne Duncan got in trouble in 2013 for characterizing the opposition to Common Core as «white suburban moms.»

SECRETARY ARNE DUNCAN: And it's fascinating to me that some of the pushback is coming from sort of white suburban moms who, all of a sudden, their child isn't as brilliant as they thought they were, their schools aren't quite as good as they thought they were.

(Only high - income mostly white suburban high schools send more kids to college with 73 percent of the students enrolled in college in the fall).

He told a groups of school superintendents last November that he was «fascinated» by the backlash from «white suburban moms who — all of a sudden — their child isn't as brilliant as they thought they were, and their school isn't quite as good as they thought they were.»

Given that the one out of every eight white suburban fourth - graders not on free - or - reduced lunch are struggling with reading is equal to the levels in big - city districts — and the rate of black fourth - grade suburban counterparts who are functionally illiterate is only four percentage points lower than that of big - city peers — suburban districts are actually falling down on their jobs.

Accompanied by their mothers, first - grader Mary Rose Foxworth and second - grader Daphne Perminter became the first African American pupils at the previously all - white Suburban Park School in Norfolk when they enrolled on September 8, 1959.

These rates defy the stereotype that the movement is a rebellion of petulant «white suburban moms.»

Parents are reacting to a comment by Arne Duncan that some of the opposition to Common Core standards comes from white suburban moms who are upset that their children are not doing well on the new common core - aligned tests.

As you may have heard, after New York announced that their test scores under the Common Core dropped a full 30 percent, Obama's Secretary of Education notoriously singled - out «white suburban moms» as particularly vociferous opponents of the Common Core standards - which are coming soon to a school near you.

In addition, the plan to accept transfer students from low - income, predominantly black communities at mostly white suburban schools was, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported, «met with acrimony.»

He had just told a gathering of state superintendents of education that «white suburban moms» were rebelling against the Common Core academic standards — new guidelines for math and language arts instruction — because their kids had done poorly on the tough new tests.