Education – Page 6 – 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.

Less Accessible, Less Affordable

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-10-31T09:09:59+00:00 October 31st, 2018|Education|

A growing number of public universities are becoming less affordable and accessible for low-income students and people of color, according to two new reports released today.

In its report, New America found that more than half of the 600 public universities it examined expect the neediest first-year students to pay more than $10,000

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Right-wing groups are recruiting students to target teachers

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-10-30T08:37:04+00:00 October 30th, 2018|Education, Extremism, Hate Crimes, Intergroup Relations|

When the threatening letters started to arrive, Albert Ponce stopped letting his daughter touch the mail.

Ponce, a political science professor at Diablo Valley College in the San Francisco Bay Area, and his wife didn’t know how to explain to their 9-year-old that her father was receiving death threats. “Only Mom and Dad can touch the

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‘Degenerate and Murderous’: California Campus Republicans’ Platform Attacks College Culture

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-10-22T08:22:00+00:00 October 22nd, 2018|Education, Intergroup Relations|

The California College Republicans’ new platform says the state’s campuses are rife with what the group considers “degenerate” behavior. The document takes aim at university funding of birth control and abortion, the legitimizing of transgender people, and institutional support of Mexican and Muslim student organizations that the group accuses of being “ethnonationalist” and anti-Semitic.

“In addition,

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‘You Are Still Black’: Charlottesville’s Racial Divide Hinders Students

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-10-16T09:35:49+00:00 October 16th, 2018|Education, Intergroup Relations|

Zyahna Bryant and Trinity Hughes, high school seniors, have been friends since they were 6, raised by blue-collar families in this affluent college town. They played on the same T-ball and softball teams, and were in the same church group.

But like many African-American children in Charlottesville, Trinity lived on the south

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Harvard Admissions Trial Opens With Arguments Focused on Diversity

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-10-16T09:30:50+00:00 October 16th, 2018|Education, Intergroup Relations|

Harvard University defended its race-conscious admissions policy in a crowded courtroom in Boston on Monday, pushing back against claims that it discriminates against Asian-American applicants. It was the first day of a trial that has come to represent that latest front in the country’s fight over affirmative action in college admissions.

The university was accused

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Searching for Middle Ground

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-09-28T09:46:32+00:00 September 28th, 2018|Education, LGBTQ+|

Azusa Pacific University, a private, evangelical Christian university in California, published a revised statement on human sexuality that no longer forbids romantic same-sex relationships as long as both parties abstain from sex. The new statement has social and legal implications for the university and comes a time of pressure

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Education for All… Even a ‘Nazi’?

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-09-27T09:19:15+00:00 September 27th, 2018|Education, Hate Crimes, Intergroup Relations|

Marc Johnson can recall just three times in his life when the news changed everything: the Friday afternoon in November 1963 when John F. Kennedy was assassinated; the morning of Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001; and the Saturday night in August 2017 when he looked down at his phone and saw a wire-service

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Is Your State Serving Black Students?

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-09-25T08:49:47+00:00 September 25th, 2018|Education, Intergroup Relations|

The issue is nothing new for universities: the need to diversify the student body (and their faculty).

Now every public university in the country can see how well it is serving black students — at least by a few metrics — with a new report card from the University of

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Suspensions in California schools drop, but trouble spots remain

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-09-24T09:22:20+00:00 September 24th, 2018|Education, Intergroup Relations|

What youth and civil rights advocates have called a decades-long suspension epidemic in California schools is showing signs of subsiding, with a new report finding that suspensions have dropped significantly across all student groups over a recent five-year period.

But alarming levels of lost days of instruction from suspensions remain, especially among African-Americans, Native Americans and students with

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AT UC-BERKELEY, A PLAN TO WELCOME UNDERSERVED STUDENTS PROVOKES THE IRE OF ONE ASIAN-AMERICAN GROUP

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-09-21T08:28:17+00:00 September 21st, 2018|Education, Intergroup Relations|

An Asian-American student advocacy group has accused the University of California–Berkeley of enacting racially conscious admissions policies that the group says would disadvantage Asian-American applicants, a charge the university has rejected as baseless. The standoff comes amid a lawsuit involving similar allegations against Harvard University, which many decry as a bid by conservatives to undercut access

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