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There are still many on the left who call out educational redlining, including brave groups like Brown’s Promise, which urges an end to “school gerrymandering.” But district executives and ...
A new paper says the change worked. Some of the worst-performing elementary schools in California retrained teachers to teach reading with phonics. A new paper says the change worked.
Federal data also show that schools serving mostly Black and Latino students have fewer seats in their GATE- and AP-track courses, and far too many schools do not offer college-track programs at all.
Greenlining introduced AB 624, which was a piece of "sunshine" legislation which would have require large foundations operating in California to gather and disclose pertinent diversity data. AB 624 would not have required foundations to invest in minority communities, nor would it have created racial quotas for grant-making and employment.
Proposition 209 (also known as the California Civil Rights Initiative or CCRI) is a California ballot proposition which, upon approval in November 1996, amended the state constitution to prohibit state governmental institutions from considering race, sex, or ethnicity, specifically in the areas of public employment, public contracting, and ...
Since middle school students tend to value education more, [citation needed] retention should be used when they are judged not to have adequate skills before entering high school. It is also argued that social promotion, by preventing elementary students from advancing at their own pace, is a key reason why they do not take their education ...
Commenary by Eric Payne of the Central Valley Urban Institute.
Proposition 227 [2] was a California ballot proposition passed on the June 2, 1998, ballot. Proposition 227 was repealed by Proposition 58 on November 8, 2016. According to Ballotpedia, "Proposition 227 changed the way that "Limited English Proficient" (LEP) students are taught in California. Specifically, it