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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 ...
Some of the worst-performing elementary schools in California retrained teachers to teach reading with phonics. A new paper says the change worked.
The Unruh Civil Rights Act (colloquially the "Unruh Act") is an expansive 1959 California law that prohibits California businesses from engaging in unlawful discrimination against all persons (consumers) within California's jurisdiction, where the unlawful discrimination is in part based on a person's sex, race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, age, disability, medical condition ...
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.
Redlining is a discriminatory practice in which financial services are withheld from neighborhoods that have significant numbers of racial and ethnic minorities. [2] Redlining has been most prominent in the United States, and has mostly been directed against African Americans, as well as Mexican Americans in the Southwestern United States. [3]
The California Assn. of School Business Officials said that it supports "any statutory changes that recognize the enrollment realities are varying and unique" and "any opportunities to alleviate ...
[1] [7] [13] Specifically, the spatial separation of specific populations due to housing segregation leads to geographic concentrations of quality education. For example, public schools in suburban areas are usually more equipped with resources, have a higher percentage quality teachers, and produce a larger amount of successful students. [7]
School closure battles like Oakland's are playing out across California. Statewide, public schools lost 5.1 percent of their students between the 2019–2020 school year and the 2022–2023 school ...