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The article focuses on the racial segregation persisting in schools in the U.S. based on research conducted by veteran education lawyer John W. Borkowski, which may have influenced observation by U.S. Justice Sonia Sotomayor in a U.S. Supreme Court hearing. Topics discussed include statements from Sotomayor about this problem occurring in schools across the nation, and a 2019 report from the Civil Rights Project at the University of California-Los Angeles cited in Borkowski's brief.

The article focuses on various laws passed by California Governor Gavin Newsom in September 2023 regarding schoolchildren's safety including banning textbooks' rejections from school boards on the basis of racial discrimination, teachers' cultural competency training, and gender-neutral restrooms in schools.

The article presents information on Angela Ward, Supervisor of Race and Equity Programs Austin Independent School District Austin, Texas. Topics include lessons by the educational leader as to understand the sociopolitical impacts of institutional racism on ability to shit the outcomes of marginalized students; and mentions collaboration as key to recognize the wealth of knowledge which creates the opportunity for rich dialogue and opens each person to new perspectives and growth opportunities.

The article discusses how African American parents force the end of academic tracking. Topics include the findings of Human Relations Commission and the federal education department in 2015 for a long-standing pattern of discrimination that steered African American students into low-level classes; the Upper Dublin settlement that could be a model for parents in other districts who are in a similar situation; and use of data to track performance to see where gaps exist.

The article explores the implications of artificial intelligence (AI) in education, focusing on how inherent biases in AI systems reflect and potentially exacerbate societal inequalities. It highlights concerns about AI tools used in schools, such as their potential to reinforce existing biases related to race, gender, and socioeconomic status due to the data they are trained on.

The article explores the reasons why few women are hired as chief executives of school districts in the U.S. despite the K-12 education being largely a female enterprise. It includes the preference of some women teachers to remain as teacherss than to become superintendents, the limited opportunities for women leaders to network, and the harsh treatment and scrutiny facing women superintendents.

The article presents the author's views on the impact of children's race on their schooling experiences in the U.S. in context of former Los Angeles City Council member and president Nury Martinez' comments about beating her African American colleague's son. She opines that Martinez' comments against African American students signifies the inclusion of racism in school policies.

The article focuses on the challenges surrounding the admission of Latino and African-American students into New York City's elite public high schools. Topics include percentages of selective-admissions high schools in the country; fostering diversity with high schools; and U.S. Supreme Court ruling on eliminating race in assigning individual students to schools.

The article focuses on U.S. Department of Education released the 700 pages of proposed rules on the 50th anniversary of the landmark legislation that banned sex discrimination in schools, colleges, and universities. It mentions proposed changes to federal Title IX rules could mean broader protections for LGBTQ students and clearer processes for reviewing sexual assault and harassment allegations. It also mentions Title IX would include sexuality and gender identity.

The article calls for schools to educate white students about racism and how it is perpetuated by white men. Topics discussed are inequalities in educational opportunities, consequences of conspirational great replacement theory and other racist propaganda that portray white people as victims of discrimination, the need for school administrators and teachers to conduct bias audits and to teach white students about civil rights heroes of color and white men who fought to undo racist systems.

The article analyzes the education consequences of the great replacement theory, which traces to the notion that members of the white ethnic groups of developed countries are being replaced by people of color. It reveals that hate speech and hate crimes were racially motivated and targeted towards African American students and other students of color, according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). Also noted are policies to prevent white supremacy and racial violence are noted.

The author reflects on the 70th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision, highlighting how the promise of educational opportunity for all, particularly Black students, with segregation persisting and access to quality schooling becoming increasingly challenging. Topics include the ongoing struggle for educational equity, the impact of segregation on Black students' opportunities, and the sobering reality that progress in education may not be inevitable,.

The article focuses on the potential impact of the new Title IX regulation, suggesting that while it may lead to an increase in harassment complaints, it also offers districts the opportunity to simplify their handling of such cases. Topics include the broader coverage of harassment under the new rule, the flexibility it provides for streamlining complaint processes, and the legal considerations for districts navigating lawsuits challenging the regulation.

The article discusses the topics of racism and critical race theory being taught in public schools. It focuses on the poll among a representative sample of parents of school-age children that proposed new legislation aimed at classroom treatments of race play political football much more than it answers genuine parental concern.

The article discusses the federal case against the men who murdered Ahmaud Arbery, which needs to be included in classroom conversations about how to discuss racial justice in the United States with the students. It emphasizes creating space to let students talk about issues of the day, increasing racial literacy, and discussing current events to stimulate learning.

The article discusses efforts to counter racial biases and stereotypes in schools, with a particular focus on Colorado's school system. Details on the state's Adams 14 district, which is under a compliance agreement with the U.S. Department of Education's office for civil rights, are presented. It is suggested that school staff members often act on implicit biases surrounding race, ethicity, disability, and gender when making quick and subjective decisions regarding rules and discipline.

The article reports that Des Moines, Iowa, public schools held a series of anti-racist town hall meetings in the wake of the police-led killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and the disproportionate effects of COVID-19 on people of color in their community. It mentions large-scale analyses of research on implicit-bias training suggest it more often changes short-term knowledge about the vocabulary of diversity than long-term changes in behavior.

The article reports on the efforts launched by the U.S. Department of Education's office for civil rights to address unfair and discriminatory treatment in public schools. Under the administration of President Barack Obama, the civil rights office became much aggressive in dealing with unfair treatment in schools through outreach programs and public awareness programs.

The article highlights the findings of a report from Research for Action, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit, which used 2015-2016 federal data on all schools and measured how many high schools offer positive benefits such as teachers who are fully certified by the state, access to Advanced Placement courses, or low It reveals levels of chronic absenteeism among students and teachers and describes inequities in schools.

The article discusses the critical race theory and impact of structural racism on schools in New York, U.S. Topics include Education being a case study of progress on racial justice, prohibit the teaching of particular concepts about race and racism within public institutions, prohibition of teaching "divisive concepts" about race and gender ordered by President Donald Trump and how structural racism helps drive racial disparity in almost every meaningful area in education.

The article reports that according to a report published by the Philadelphia School Partnership, despite the steady progress Philadelphia public district and charter schools have made in improving school quality, stubborn inequity remains in how students are enrolled in schools.

The article focuses on the decision of Federal Appeals Court in the case Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College which argued that Harvard's admissions program's use of race violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

The article discusses the lack of awareness among U.S. students and parents concerning Title IX for students' access to help in vulnerable situations. Federal law allows students to ask their schools for help in case of a sexual assault under Title IX, which prohibits sex discrimination in education. In addition, districts are required to have a Title IX coordinator, but students and their families often don't know who their Title IX coordinator is.

The article focuses on the problems of racism in the U.S. schools. It mentions reforming education policies to reduce police killings or school suspensions of African American students. It also informs on abolitionists want to understand the conditions that normalize oppression and uproot those conditions, too, along with the comments of activist Bill Ayers on same.

The article highlights the challenges of black people and students to stay safe from the oppression of police brutality. It mentions a threat to the lives of Black people as they must distraction and disengagement from education; and also focuses on the relationship starts in the classroom with attentiveness to the craft of teaching and also with teachers.

The article highlights the steps that educators can take to remove anti-Black racism in their schools. It discusses suggestions such as pressing need for educators to develop a propensity, a knowledge, and the courage to discuss, name, and describe the levels of exclusion, oppression, hostility, and racism in the US; and trying to speak about belief in the inferiority of Black people, culture, and history.

The article informs that U.S. District Judge W. Louis Sands Sr. is releasing a southwest Georgia school system from a racial-desegregation order, ruling that African American enrollment isn't its fault, even though enrollment doesn't match the demographics of the surrounding community.

The article explores few ways to bring equality in education which includes identifying low-income families, helping historically marginalized groups, and analyzing cultural backgrounds of different groups.

The article presents debate on LGBTQ issues in Florida school. Topics include the discrimination that has taken palace for the LGBTQ community; closure of a Christian school's voucher program after officials found it did not have a state-mandated LGBTQ non-discrimination policy; and the finding of the Orlando Sentinel report on act of several businesses to end support for one of the tax-credit scholarship programs.

The article reports that the new study of North Carolina classrooms finds that as racial segregation between schools went down, the racial isolation within the classrooms inside those schools will increase. It mentions that the class-level isolation can limit black and Hispanic students' access to challenging courses and hamstring district efforts to encourage the broader social and academic benefits of diversity.

The article informs that a study conducted by the Urban Institute found that racial segregation tends to concentrate black and Hispanic children in schools where most of the students come from poor families because of the persistent connection between race and income in the U.S. The study argues that racial achievement gap in standardized-test scores should not be considered a racial gap.

The article discusses how updating school attendance boundaries using algorithms based on district goals and parent preferences can reduce racial segregation between white students and students of color by 14 percent on average in large districts. It also mentions the potential for greater efficiency and diversity in education without significantly lengthening students' bus rides.

The article focuses on the issues of increased rates of abuse and restraint in schools against students with disabilities in the U.S. Topics discussed include role of teachers in meeting the needs of all learners; inclusion of effective method of teaching students; and supporting special needs students in mainstream classrooms.

The article offers information on educational leaders for exploring the opportunities for the success of students. Topics include annual recognition of exemplary district leadership on powerful strategies to diminish the role of student's race, neighborhood, or family income; and work to extend instrumental music, dance, and other arts to disadvantaged schools for richer learning and academic gains.

The article discusses a report released by the U.S. Government Accountability Office which triggered a debate over racial and economic inequities. The report shows an increase in the number of schools with outsized shares of students in poverty who are also students of color from 2000 to 2014. Democratic Representative Bobby Scott is planning to introduce federal legislation to make it easier for individuals to take civil action against violators of provisions in the Civil Rights Act.

The article offers information on the life of Shomari Jones, Director of Equity and Graduation support for the Bellevue School District, Bellevue, Washington to ensure that its low-income, nonwhite students have the same opportunities to succeed as their more privileged peers. Topics include focus on closing achievement gaps between white and Asian students and their black, and Native American peers because the latter groups of students comprise a small portion of the district.

The article presents information on the Inequities in schools. Topics include meetings, which included parents, teachers, staff, and administrators, touched on issues of race, and class; also presents experiences of Roberto Padilla, a foster child and a former New York City principal. Padilla figured out how to navigate the city's layers of bureaucracy in order to demonstrate academic gains and quickly boost test scores in its toughest neighborhood.

The article cites a document obtained by the media organization the Associated Press to state that the U.S. Department of Education was aiming to narrow the scope of civil rights complaints in schools by focusing on individual grievances instead of systemic difficulties.

A letter to the editor is presented in response to the article "Few Women Run School Districts, Why?" that was published in the November 16, 2016 issue.

The article reports on a study conducted by Seth Gershenson and Stephen, researchers at American University in Washington, D.C., which reveals the impact of teacher demographic representation on student suspensions and attendance.

The article discusses the U.S. federal government's accusations of alleged discriminatory admission practices at the better schools in the Buffalo, New York school district. It notes that the district, led by Superintendent Kriner Cash, has rejected a recommendation to create a City Honors II school.

The article looks at gender equity in education, discussing a report from the United Nations agency UNESCO assessing the extent to which numerous countries have met the goal of the Education for All initiative to provide equal access to schooling for girls. It discusses barriers to girls' school attendance in some countries including child marriage and school fees.

The article reports on the launch of an investigation by the U.S. Department of Education's office for civil rights into claims that the New York State Department of Education and State Board of Regents discriminated against districts with large African American populations.

The article reports on the expulsion of 14 students in the Huntsville, Alabama school district for misconduct surrounding social media use and noting concerns of possible race discrimination within the district over the larger proportion of African American students who were punished.

The article looks at a report which found public high school in northern Virginia has dramatically increased the number of Black and Latino students offered admission under a new application system that some Asian American parents say discriminates against their children.

The article discusses how two superintendents, Jenny Risner of Ames, Iowa schools, and Gregg Palmer of the Brewer, Maine school district, are fighting anti-African American racism. Ames school district invested in anti-bias training for teachers, formed diversity and equity committees and changed curricula. The anti-racism efforts led by Palmer after the death of African American man George Floyd include forming a diversity and equity committee and conducting teacher training on diversity.

The article reports the US District Judge's ruling that Thomas Jefferson High School in Fairfax County, Virginia, discriminated against Asian Americans regarding the admissions policies for Science and Technology.