Education – Page 11 – CAHRO – California Association of Human Relations Organizations

Next to complaints relating to law enforcement, the concern for schools and education generates the greatest demand for the attention of human relations commissions. Because school decision making is diffused between boards of education, school administrators, and faculties human rights commissions are usually not able to establish strong working relationships with the education community and special strategies need to be developed.

Outstanding resources and model programs are available that cover just about every facet of education that would be of concern to a commission. Commissions may form education committees to examine specific needs, identify resources and programs, and develop strategies.

Campus Cops Handling Racism

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-05-14T09:02:35+00:00 May 14th, 2018|Education, Police & Community|

In the past few weeks, a black student at Yale University had the police called on her for napping in a common room, and two Native American teenagers, prospective students at Colorado State University, were stopped on a campus tour after another parent was reportedly nervous, calling them “creepy” in a 911 call.

While generally much

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Incidences of Campus Racial Intolerance Spark Calls for Change

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-05-11T09:18:44+00:00 May 11th, 2018|Education, Intergroup Relations|

Some say the current racial and political climate contributes to the problem. They have “heightened the othering of people of color,” says Dr. Marybeth Gasman, director of the Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions and Judy and Howard Berkowitz Professor of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. “I think there are Whites who consider spaces

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African-American students with disabilities suspended at disproportionately high rates

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-05-08T09:28:41+00:00 May 8th, 2018|Disability, Education|

African-American special education students nationwide lose substantially more instruction time due to discipline than their white counterparts, according to a report by The Civil Rights Project at UCLA and the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard University.

The report, “Disabling Punishment: The Need for Remedies to the Disparate Loss of Instruction Experienced by

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UC Berkeley report says political clashes ‘tore at the campus’s social fabric’

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-05-04T09:10:11+00:00 May 4th, 2018|Education, Intergroup Relations|

Why did some students host a series of conservative and far-right speakers at UC Berkeley in 2017? Why did the left and far-left, after ignoring similar events in the past, respond with outrage and, in some cases, violence?

“Our conclusion,” wrote the campus’s Commission on Free Speech in a report sent to students Wednesday, “is

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Racist behavior on campus will be discussed at upcoming Cal Poly forum

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-05-04T09:07:51+00:00 May 4th, 2018|Education, Intergroup Relations|

A diversity specialist and panel discussion to address a string of recent racially-charged incidents and how the campus community can move forward will be the subject of Cal Poly’s biennial Baker Forum on Friday afternoon.

The event, called “Our Collective Journey Begins: Real and Raw, An Intimate Dialogue to Get Us on Track,”

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Texas, six other states sue Trump administration to force an end to DACA

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-05-02T11:44:48+00:00 May 2nd, 2018|Education, Immigration|

Texas and six other states are suing the Trump administration over its failure to terminate an Obama-era program that provides work permits to hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children.

The lawsuit signals growing GOP frustration with

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Why Are New York’s Schools Segregated? It’s Not as Simple as Housing

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-05-02T11:39:14+00:00 May 2nd, 2018|Education, Employment & Housing|

When asked about school segregation in New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio has said that schools are segregated because neighborhoods are: “We cannot change the basic reality of housing in New York City.”

Now, as a debate about plans to integrate middle schools has engulfed

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The Real Free-Speech Crisis Is Professors Being Disciplined for Liberal Views, a Scholar Finds

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-05-01T09:14:23+00:00 May 1st, 2018|Education|

Many conservative pundits will tell you that one of the most vaunted of American values, free speech, is under siege by undergraduates across the nation. And their prime targets are conservative speakers, among them Milo Yiannopoulos, whose aborted speech last year at the University of California at Berkeley at the hands of riotous protesters

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Despite progress, California’s teaching force far from reflecting diversity of students

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-04-30T09:34:32+00:00 April 30th, 2018|Education|

California has a far more racially and ethnically diverse teaching force than it had 20 years ago — and a more diverse one than is the case nationally. About about 1 in 3 of the state’s 305,000 teachers are teachers of color, compared to 1 in 5 teachers across the nation.

But during the same period, California’s

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STATE OF CONFLICT: How a tiny protest at the U. of Nebraska turned into a proxy war for the future of campus politics

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-04-30T09:24:20+00:00 April 30th, 2018|Education, Intergroup Relations|

The first month of the fall semester had not gone as Hank M. Bounds, president of the University of Nebraska, had hoped. It was shaping up to be a tough budget year, for the school and the state, and he had hoped to press the case for how valuable the university was to the state.

Instead,

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