Education – Page 16 – 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.

Bill Would Require Stronger Campus Hate-Crime Reporting

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-01-29T11:01:39+00:00 January 29th, 2018|Education, Hate Crimes|

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Maryland’s public colleges and universities would be required to develop stronger policies for reporting and documenting campus hate crimes and bias incidents under a measure introduced in the General Assembly on Friday in response to the stabbing of a Black Bowie State University student at the University of Maryland.

Democratic Delegate Angela

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Trump Admin To Transgender Kids: We Won’t Deal With Your Civil Rights Complaints

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-01-16T09:57:55+00:00 January 16th, 2018|Education, LGBTQ+|

In Texas, a transgender teenager said his high school discriminated against him for almost two years. He was not allowed to use the bathroom that corresponded with his gender identity. When he traveled overnight with one of the school’s teams, he wasn’t allowed to room with

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How an LA teacher’s lawsuit put White House’s DACA repeal on hold

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-01-16T09:55:42+00:00 January 16th, 2018|Education, Immigration|

When the Trump administration announced last fall it would phase out a program that provides deportation relief to thousands of undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as young children, Los Angeles teacher Miriam Gonzalez Avila didn’t want her students to think she could be defeated so easily — so she sued.

“I knew signing up as

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A DYING TOWN: Here in a corner of Missouri and across America, the lack of a college education has become a public-health crisis.

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-01-16T09:45:24+00:00 January 16th, 2018|Education, Employment & Housing, Intergroup Relations|

Drive 90 miles north on Interstate 55 from Memphis, then 20 miles west on Route 412, cutting through seemingly endless fields of cotton, rice, and soybeans. You’ll know you’ve arrived when you see the sign: Welcome to Kennett. Hometown of Sheryl Crow.

This small town in southeastern Missouri used to greet visitors with a different motto:

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The NCAA as Modern Jim Crow? A Sports Historian Explains Why She Drew the Parallel

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-01-16T09:36:33+00:00 January 16th, 2018|Education, Intergroup Relations|

College athletics, wrote Victoria Jackson in an explosive op-ed for the Los Angeles Times on Thursday, are the “21st century Jim Crow.”

Ms. Jackson, a sports historian at Arizona State University, drew from her scholarly research and from her own experience as a Division I track-and field-athlete at the University of North Carolina at Chapel

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When Promises Are Not Enough

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-01-12T08:57:20+00:00 January 12th, 2018|Education|

Promise scholarships have been regarded as key to economic growth in many states and municipalities. The idea of providing funding for college-bound students within a designated area as an incentive for remaining in that same area post-college seems harmless enough.

However, evidence taken from reported outcomes of Promise programs such as Georgia Hope show that

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How the Right Weaponized Free Speech

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-01-09T09:09:00+00:00 January 9th, 2018|Education, Intergroup Relations|

I was 10 years old when my father was suspended from his job as a high-school social-studies teacher. Two years later, he was fired for insubordination and conduct unbecoming a teacher because he refused to cooperate with an investigation into purported communist infiltration in the New York City public schools. His defense was eloquent….

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Is Protesting a Privilege?

By Carmen Chandler| 2017-12-06T09:36:04+00:00 December 6th, 2017|Education, Intergroup Relations|

Campus protests advocating for diversity occur more frequently at elite colleges, a study suggests.

Since her days as a Ph.D. student at Vanderbilt University, Dominique J. Baker says, she had wondered, “Why do certain universities have protests and others don’t?”

That curiosity led Ms. Baker and a colleague to study differences in protests among higher-education institutions…

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umina Foundation to Award $2.5 Million in Grants for “Addressing Hate”

By Carmen Chandler| 2017-12-06T09:16:08+00:00 December 6th, 2017|Education, Intergroup Relations|

Violence and racial chaos in Charlottesville earlier this year sparked a call to action for one philanthropic foundation dedicated to making post-secondary education accessible to all.

Mobilized to back words with action, Jamie Merisotis, president and CEO of the Lumina Foundation, announced Tuesday that the foundation will award $2.5 million in grants for community-building programs and

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US charter schools put growing numbers in racial isolation

By Carmen Chandler| 2017-12-05T09:39:54+00:00 December 5th, 2017|Education|

Charter schools are among the nation’s most segregated, an Associated Press analysis finds — an outcome at odds, critics say, with their goal of offering a better alternative to failing traditional public schools.

National enrollment data shows that charters are vastly over-represented among schools where minorities study in the most extreme racial isolation. As of school

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