Will Charter Schools Re-segregate Public Schools? You Decide!

Will Charter Schools Re-segregate Public Schools? You Decide! 

 

Brown v. Board Fails: Resegregation is Accidentally on Purpose #Brownat60 | Cloaking Inequity

Brown v. Board Fails: Resegregation is Accidentally on Purpose #Brownat60 | Cloaking Inequity: Brown v. Board Fails: Resegregation is Accidentally on Purpose #Brownat60Since it’s inception the United States has enacted and supported racially discriminatory policies. On May 17, 1954, the US Supreme Court handed down a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education, outlawing racial segregation i

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Charter segregation adds layer in Brown v. Board debate

Charter segregation adds layer in Brown v. Board debate: Charter segregation adds layer in Brown v. Board debateSixty years after the Supreme Court ordered an end to segregated schools, the problem of separate and unequal hasn't gone away — and some say charter schools are part of the problem.About 6 percent of Nashville public school students attend charter schools, but with the state's blessing

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Still apart: Map shows states with most-segregated schools

Still apart: Map shows states with most-segregated schools: PUBLIC SCHOOLS STILL SEGREGATEDIn its 1954 Brown v. Topeka Board of Education ruling, the Supreme Court ruled separate is not equal, and segregation by race is unconstitutional. But 60 years later, segregation is still widespread in America's public schools.Segregation is still widespread at American public schools, 60 years after the lan

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Louisiana Special Education Bill Would Segregate Students With Disabilities, Advocates Say

Louisiana Special Education Bill Would Segregate Students With Disabilities, Advocates Say: Louisiana Special Education Bill Would Segregate Students With Disabilities, Advocates SayShould schools expect students with a disability to know the same things as other kids their age to advance and graduate?This decades-old question, which strikes at the heart of the civil rights movement for students w

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Devastating Report Condemns Corporate Reform as Civil Rights Fraud - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher

Devastating Report Condemns Corporate Reform as Civil Rights Fraud - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher: Devastating Report Condemns Corporate Reform as Civil Rights FraudBy Anthony Cody on May 16, 2014 8:11 AMAs the 60th anniversary of Brown vs. Board of Education arrives, a report has been released by the Journey 4 Justice Alliance, a coalition of community, youth and parent-led organiz

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Feds remind charters of civil rights obligations :: SI&A Cabinet Report :: The Essential Resource for Superintendents and the Cabinet

Feds remind charters of civil rights obligations :: SI&A Cabinet Report :: The Essential Resource for Superintendents and the Cabinet: Feds remind charters of civil rights obligationsby Tom Chorneau(District of Columbia) Despite the claims of some critics that charter schools are largely unaccountable to key education mandates, the U.S. Department of Education issued clear noticethis week that

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Death by a Thousand Cuts: Racism, School Closures, and Public School Sabotage

Journey for Justice has just issued a new report Death by a Thousand Cuts: Racism, School Closures, and Public School Sabotage. It’s well researched and heavily footnoted, but more than that, it is a powerful, moving piece of social and political commentary: The move toward the expansion of charter schools, and away from public schools, in communities of color has been staggeringly swift, and it

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5-16-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum

Seattle Schools Community Forum:

Friday Open Thread

Seattle's Central Library celebrates its 10-year birthday.  Lots of fun events starting today with a concert by Harry and the Potters and ending with a big party next Friday, May 23rd.  Music, temporary tattoos, cupcakes and a Lion Dance, starting at 10 a.m.Lots of awards for high school students.  From SPS Communications:Keeley Michael, a senior at Ingraham High School, won the 2014 Congressional

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5-15-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum

Seattle Schools Community Forum: More Money for Everything Except K-12: More Money for Everything Except K-12Because I know that Sacajawea's principal got notified last night, at the last possible minute, that the district had cut 1.0 FTE at the school.  "Decreased enrollment" was the reason but it has been suggested that many parents got spooked by no bus service outside the boundaries.

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5-16-14 LA School Report - What's Really Going on Inside LAUSD

LA School Report - What's Really Going on Inside LAUSD (Los Angeles Unified School District):

Kayser loses one 2015 opponent (Torres) but gains another (Torres)

Barbara Torres is sworn into office by Local 99 Treasurer Maggie Johnson Bennett Kayser, the LA Unified board member for District 5, thought he had challenger next year in SEIU Local 99 President Barbara Torres. That was true until yesterday. Barbara Torres said today she is stepping out of the race. But that doesn’t mean Kayser is without a challenger. As of today, he has a new one: Barbara Torre

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Attention District 1 voters: Deadline to register is Monday

This just in from the LA City Clerk’s Office: Monday is the deadline to register for any LA Unified District 1 resident who intens to vote in the June 3 special election. Registrants must be a citizen of the United States, live within the school district, be 18 years old by Election Day and not be in prison or on parole for a felony. Registered voters who have moved or changed their names since th

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LAUSD School board candidates are gathering for another forum

School Board Candidates will meet at Holman United Methodist Church They’re baaaaaack. The seven candidates for LA Unified’s open District 1 seat are gathering again tomorrow for another forum to address answer questions  and address issues facing the district. Sponsored by community groups and the host site, Holman United Methodist Church, located in south-central LA, the event will honor the 60t

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As write-in candidate, ‘Marilyn V’ says she would ‘not be bullied’

Marilyn Veincentotzs Seventh in a series of profiles of candidates for LA Unified’s open District 1 board seat. With less than a month to go before the LA Unified special election to fill the vacant District 1 seat, write-in candidate Marilyn Veincentotzs is taking a tough stand against the status quo that she says isn’t working in LA Unified. Specifically, she blames Superintendent John Deasy fo

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McKenna, leading in school board race, won’t commit on Deasy

With three weeks to go before the election, George McKenna, a leading candidate for the LA Unified school board representing south LA, is refusing to clarify whether he supports John Deasy, the district’s current superintendent. McKenna’s unwillingness to provide a clear answer comes at an important time for the school district, the second-largest in the country, as it faces contract negotiations

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LAUSD finds a sleeker approach for its website makover

The LA Unified School District got a makeover. Well, not the district. Its website. Samuel C. Gilstrap, a district spokesman, said the idea was to move all the various administrative office sites from a dated, non-integrated collection of platforms onto a one-stop-shopping site that is easier to access and navigate. Two key reasons for the upgrade, he said: One, upgrades will improve the quality o

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Mar Vista charter school meets with neighbors to ease tensions

CWC Mar Vista Charter School They came. They ate. They talked. And they came up with a few ideas they say might work. Four people from Citizens of the World Charter School (CWC) and four of its Mar Vista neighbors shared a meal at the school last night and discussed the traffic and parking problems that have angered local residents, causing friction between CWC and its co-located school, Stoner El

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Morning Read: LAUSD’s Kids Ocean Day beach cleanup a hit

Thousands turn out for LAUSD’s Kids Ocean Day beach cleanup On its 21st birthday Thursday, Kids Ocean Day came full circle as an alumnus returned to clean up the beach with her class of North Hollywood third-graders. Fair Avenue Elementary School teacher Armine Pogosian was a youngster in 1993 when she attended her first Kids Ocean Day, pitching in to pick up litter on the beach and learning about

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5-15-14 LA School Report - What's Really Going on Inside LAUSD

LA School Report - What's Really Going on Inside LAUSD (Los Angeles Unified School District): Morning Read: CA among worst in the nation in school segregationCalifornia among worst in the nation in school segregation As racial separation in education steadily grows, California now leads the nation in children going to school with their own kind, a UCLA study released Wednesday contends. On the 60t

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Bad Medicine | EduShyster

Bad Medicine | EduShyster:

Bad Medicine

 The Obama administration prescribes pay-for-performance for doctors. What could possibly go wrong?

Do you ever feel as though reading one more word about our failed and failing public schools will cause your head to pop off of its very brain stem and spin wildly in the air before reattaching itself at an angle most askew? That is what is known as a medical condition, reader, which is why I am prescribing for you an immediate treatment course consisting of a winebox, bed rest and a change of scenery. Today’s topic: health care—specifically the Obama administration’s brilliant new policy of rewarding the excellence of doctors and hospitals through an innovative approach called *pay for performance.* What could possibly go wrong?

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As the consumer of a great many medical dramas, I know that the first step towards treating an improbably obscure ailment is to diagnose it. In short, our health care system is (f)ailing and all of its graduates will eventually pass on to the waiting Bad Medicine | EduShyster:

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit 5-16-14

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit:

From the AALA Update: GOV. BROWN PRESENTS MAY BUDGET REVISION + LAUSD SCHOOLS DOMINATE NATIONAL ACADEMIC DECATHLON

From the Associated Administrators of Los Angeles Weekly Update Week of May 19, 2014 | http://bit.ly/1j2xus5 GOVERNOR BROWN PRESENTS MAY BUDGET REVISION May 15, 2014 | While scores of speakers addressed the LAUSD Board of Education regarding budget priorities at its meeting on Tuesday, May 13, 2014, Governor Brown released the May Revision to the 2014-15 State Budget. The revision brings good

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4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit 5-14-14

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: First impressions: THE GOVERNOR’S MAY REVISE BUDGET + May Revision Budget Documentvia email/in order received from ESEA Cabinet Report May 13, 2014 No major improvements for schools in May Revise by Tom Chorneau (Calif.) Focusing his attention and much of the $2.4 billion in unanticipated state revenue in other directions, Gov. Jerry Brown offered a rev

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Brown v. Board Fails: Resegregation is Accidentally on Purpose #Brownat60 | Cloaking Inequity

Brown v. Board Fails: Resegregation is Accidentally on Purpose #Brownat60 | Cloaking Inequity:

Brown v. Board Fails: Resegregation is Accidentally on Purpose #Brownat60

Since it’s inception the United States has enacted and supported racially discriminatory policies. On May 17, 1954, the US Supreme Court handed down a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education, outlawing racial segregation in our  nation’s schools. Brown overturned the doctrine of “separate but equal,” which the Court had established in the 1896 case of Plessy v. Ferguson. Brown marked a turning point… 

Fast forward to May 17, 2014… the 60th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education…

Nevada “rancher” Cliven Bundy and current L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling are not racist. At least that would they would have you believe. Cliven Bundy stated to CNN:

At least a half-dozen (black) people sitting on the porch, they didn’t have nothing to do.

Because they were basically on government subsidy, so now what do they do?” he added in comments first reported by The New York Times and later seen on video. “They abort their young children, they put their young men in jail, because they never learned how to pick cotton.

And I’ve often wondered, are they better off as slaves, picking cotton and having a family life and doing things, or are they better off under government subsidy? They didn’t get no more freedom. They got less freedom.

Bundy’s “apology” to CNN was:

Maybe I sinned, and maybe I need to ask forgiveness, and maybe I don’t know what I actually said, but when you talk about prejudice, we’re talking about not being able to exercise what we think. … If I say Negro or black boy or slave, if those people cannot take those kind of words and not be (offended), then Martin Luther King hasn’t got his job done yet

We need to get over this prejudice stuff.

Donald Sterling, LA Clipper owner, also has been in the news recently. The conversation that his mistress taped Brown v. Board Fails: Resegregation is Accidentally on Purpose #Brownat60 | Cloaking Inequity:

Charter segregation adds layer in Brown v. Board debate:

Charter segregation adds layer in Brown v. Board debate

Sixty years after the Supreme Court ordered an end to segregated schools, the problem of separate and unequal hasn't gone away — and some say charter schools are part of the problem.

About 6 percent of Nashville public school students attend charter schools, but with the state's blessing and start-up money behind it, they're poised for exponential growth. The problem with that, critics say, is that charter systems pay more attention to student achievement than to racial diversity and, in some cases, end up with neither.

Charter advocates here and nationwide counter by listing a number of limitations on their recruitment, including the facts that they draw from already-segregated traditional schools and that school choice means just that — parents don't have to pick them. But at the same time, there's a new movement within the charter community locally and nationwide to open schools with a premium on racial balance.

Today, just before Saturday's 60th anniversary of the landmark Brown vs. Board of Education U.S. Supreme Court decision that integrated public schools, renowned University of California-Los Angeles desegregation researcher Gary Orfield releaseda new report on the state of racial balance in U.S. schools.

Segregation overall is increasing after the 2007 Supreme Court decision ending the practice of assigning students based on race, and federal courts dropping oversight of school districts' desegregation plans, the report says. Tennessee is 13th most segregated in the nation, it says, with only a quarter of black students attending majority-white schools when two-thirds of public school students in the state are white.

Orfield insists charter schools should seek diversity — and states should enact laws that force them to — recruiting by socioeconomic status that often follows racial Charter segregation adds layer in Brown v. Board debate:

Still apart: Map shows states with most-segregated schools

Still apart: Map shows states with most-segregated schools:

PUBLIC SCHOOLS STILL SEGREGATED

In its 1954 Brown v. Topeka Board of Education ruling, the Supreme Court ruled separate is not equal, and segregation by race is unconstitutional. But 60 years later, segregation is still widespread in America's public schools.

Segregation is still widespread at American public schools, 60 years after the landmark Brown v. Topeka Board of Education ruling, a new report shows.

And it no longer impacts just black and white students.

Black and Latino students are more likely to attend schools with mostly poor students, while white and Asian students are more likely to attend middle-class schools, according to a report released Thursday by the Civil Rights Project at UCLA.

In New York, California and Texas, more than half of Latino students are enrolled in schools that are 90% minority or more. In New York, Illinois, Maryland and Michigan, more than half of black students attend schools where 90% or more are minority, the report shows. Latinos are now the largest minority in public schools.

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Black student attendance at majority-white schools steadily increased since the civil rights era but has been on the decline since the early 1990s. In 2011, only 23% of black students attended a majority white school -- the same percentage as in 1968, according to the report.

Although segregation is most serious in large cities, it's also "severe" in the suburbs, the report points out. In particular, Latino students are "significantly more" segregateStill apart: Map shows states with most-segregated schools: