Sentences with phrase «whose school colors»

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On Thursday, the board voted 6 - 2 to demand Paladino's resignation, with members calling him «unambiguously racist,» «morally repugnant,» and a person with «a pattern of racist and negative behaviors» whose words would have an «incalculable» impact on the children of color who constitute the majority of Buffalo's public - school students.

A strength of NCLB is that it draws attention to the academic skills of children from low - income families, children of color, children whose first language is not English, and children with disabilities — groups that historically have not been well served by American schools.

Carter works hard to create community - building and visioning processes amongst her diverse teaching staff and between the teachers and the low - income parents of color whose children attend the school.

That is, chartering is a movement that began with the aspiration of starting many kinds of schools, but it may have morphed into one that is only adept at starting one type of school: a highly structured school that is run by a CMO or an EMO and whose goal is to close achievement gaps for low - income kids of color while producing exceptional test scores.

So last week, instead of attending an enrollment fair organized by the mayor's office, Maxwell and a group of parents whose children attended The Indianapolis Project School stood outside holding brightly colored signs protesting Greg Ballard's decision to close the sSchool stood outside holding brightly colored signs protesting Greg Ballard's decision to close the schoolschool.

Yet for all the skill and dedication of New York's teachers, our schools fall short for too many children — particularly those living in poverty, those of color and those whose first language is not English.

The impact is greater in schools that serve low - income youth, particularly students of color, whose education these laws and policies were supposedly designed to improve.

While the new law isn't all we hoped for, it does eliminate some of the most damaging components of the previous law's high - states testing and accountability regime and gets rid of the School Improvement Grants program, whose school closures, chartering and reconstitution requirements have destabilized communities of color across the coSchool Improvement Grants program, whose school closures, chartering and reconstitution requirements have destabilized communities of color across the coschool closures, chartering and reconstitution requirements have destabilized communities of color across the country.

Earlier this year, the city council created a steering committee to determine whether students at charter schools - many of whom are low - income students of color whose families struggle to afford college - are eligible for the scholarship funds.

In addition, a school serving low - income students of color is overseen by a nonelected board whose president lives not in Milwaukee but in an affluent white suburb, and who does not have an educational background but is head of the chamber of commerce.

But supporters touted the benefits of the Montessori teaching model, which includes multi-age classroom groupings and self - directed learning, for students of color and those from low - income backgrounds whose parents can't afford a private school.

In other words, if parents had their druthers — particularly parents of color whose children comprise 91 % of charter school students — enrollment would be much higher.

«The NAACP, a proud organization with a historic legacy of expanding opportunity for communities of color, now itself stands in the schoolhouse door, seeking to deny life - changing educational opportunities to millions of children whose parents and families desperately seek alternatives to schools that have failed them for too long.»

Innovate Public Schools is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to build the parent and community demand for world - class public schools, and to accelerate the growth of these schools, particularly for low - income students and students ofSchools is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to build the parent and community demand for world - class public schools, and to accelerate the growth of these schools, particularly for low - income students and students ofschools, and to accelerate the growth of these schools, particularly for low - income students and students ofschools, particularly for low - income students and students of color.

The painter Jane Freilicher, whose airy, radiantly colored still lifes and landscapes made her a leading light of the 1950s New York School and one the great representational artists of postwar America, died on Tuesday in New York.

A painter associated with the Washington School of Color Field Painters, Davis was a self - taught artist whose early work represented several phases of experimentation, including Abstract Expressionism, Neo-Dada, and Proto - Pop.

André Emmerich, an influential Manhattan art dealer whose gallery was an early champion of the 1950s and»60s school of Color Field painting and who also mounted important shows of pre-Columbian art, died yesterday at his home in Manhattan.

Of equally lasting importance, it was at the institute that Truitt met Kenneth Noland, the brilliant young painter who would go on to become one of the leading lights of the Washington Color School, a group whose abstract color paintings would lead the art - world limelight to shine oh so briefly on the nation's capital in the 1Color School, a group whose abstract color paintings would lead the art - world limelight to shine oh so briefly on the nation's capital in the 1color paintings would lead the art - world limelight to shine oh so briefly on the nation's capital in the 1960s.

One of the most significant additions is a 1966 painting by Alma Thomas, a force in the Washington Color School and the first African - American woman whose art is included in the White House permanent collection.

Paul Reed was an American Color Field painter and artist whose pieces were part of the show that launched the Washington Color School.

Paul Reed, whose vibrant geometric paintings were part of the exhibition that launched the Washington Color School, a style of abstract art that flourished in Washington in the 1960s, died Sept. 26 at his home in Phoenix.

David Richard is one of few contemporary art spaces in town that is committed to certain styles whose immediate impression is their visual impact - even more so, I think, than the conceptual: the Op Art, Hardedge, and Color School movements, for example.

She majored in Fine Arts at the Corcoran College of Art in Washington DC, where she studied under several prominent members of the Washington Color School (WCS), an influential non-objective painting group whose principal members included Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Thomas Downing, Howard Mehring and Paul Reed.

From the 1960s are Charles Green Shaw's Black on White against Yellow (1968), in which Shaw revived the polygon from his art of the 1930s to create a new minimalist statement, Leon Berkowitz's Cathedral, No. 11 (1968), a work by the Washington Color School artist in which imperceptible shifts of color and an emanating luminosity produce a meditational quality, and Betty Parsons's Miami (1966), which evokes the artist's enthusiasm for Native American art, while demonstrating the influences on her work of the leading abstract painters of the era, whose art she championed at her gallery on 57 th StColor School artist in which imperceptible shifts of color and an emanating luminosity produce a meditational quality, and Betty Parsons's Miami (1966), which evokes the artist's enthusiasm for Native American art, while demonstrating the influences on her work of the leading abstract painters of the era, whose art she championed at her gallery on 57 th Stcolor and an emanating luminosity produce a meditational quality, and Betty Parsons's Miami (1966), which evokes the artist's enthusiasm for Native American art, while demonstrating the influences on her work of the leading abstract painters of the era, whose art she championed at her gallery on 57 th Street.

It is when you are applying to law school and have better LSAT scores and undergrad grades but are passed up for someone whose only superior qualification is a politically correct skin color.

When I shot a mural of Sojourner Truth on a school in my neighborhood, the Razer Phone delivered richer color than did my GS8 Plus, whose images looked a tad washed out.