Education – Page 43 – 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.

Rialto Unified hires law firm, vows to release Holocaust documents

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:52:51+00:00 August 11th, 2014|Education|

Rialto >> After repeated criticisms over the failure to release documents explaining the genesis of an assignment that asked the school district’s eighth-graders to argue whether or not the Holocaust occurred, the school board replaced its legal team on Saturday night and pledged to release documents “as soon as possible.”

http://www.dailynews.com/social-affairs/20140809/rialto-unified-hires-law-firm-vows-to-release-holocaust-documents

Daily News

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How the ‘Long Shadow’ of Family Background Helps Determine Which Children Succeed

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:52:51+00:00 August 11th, 2014|Education, Intergroup Relations|

To see how the circumstances of childhood shape the lives of young adults, Karl Alexander and his colleagues followed a sample of nearly 800 children from the start of first grade at Baltimore public schools into their late 20s. Their findings, documented in a new book, The Long Shadow, illustrate just how family background can

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New Politics of Partner Benefits

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:52:51+00:00 July 18th, 2014|Education, LGBTQ+|

Now that gay marriage is recognized in their state, faculty members and other employees within the University of Minnesota system with same-sex partners no longer need access to domestic partner benefits. Right?

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/07/18/partner-benefits-higher-ed-evolve-more-states-recognize-gay-marriage#ixzz37pjUNOAk
Inside Higher Ed

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Both Sides Find Reason for Optimism After Latest Ruling on Texas Affirmative Action

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:52:51+00:00 July 18th, 2014|Education|

When federal judges on Tuesday upheld the University of Texas’ use of race as a factor in college admissions, the decision sent two important signals. To proponents of affirmative action, the ruling was confirmation that diversity, particularly race and ethnicity, in education is an essential and constitutional goal. To the opponents who have waged a

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Both Sides Find Reason to Cheer in Ruling on Transgender Student’s Suit

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:52:51+00:00 July 15th, 2014|Education, LGBTQ+|

Both parties in a transgender student’s lawsuit against California Baptist University claimed a partial victory last week, after a judge ruled that the institution could exclude the student from on-campus classes but not from other campus services that are open to the public.

http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/jp/both-sides-find-reason-to-cheer-in-ruling-on-transgender-college-students-suit?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

The Chronicle of Higher Education

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UCLA settles claim by African American judge over traffic stop

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:52:51+00:00 July 14th, 2014|Education, Intergroup Relations|

UCLA has agreed to pay $500,000, including $350,000 in scholarships, to settle a claim by a prominent African American judge over alleged mistreatment and racial profiling by campus police during a traffic stop last year, officials announced Friday.

http://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-ucla-cunningham-20140712-story.html

Los Angeles Times

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EXCLUSIVE: Holocaust denied by students in Rialto school assignment

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:52:51+00:00 July 14th, 2014|Education, Intergroup Relations|

Dozens of Rialto eighth-graders questioned whether the Holocaust occurred in essays written for an in-class assignment this spring.

http://www.dailynews.com/social-affairs/20140711/exclusive-holocaust-denied-by-students-in-rialto-school-assignment

Daily News

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Christian College’s President Seeks Exemption From Ban on Anti-Gay Bias

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:52:52+00:00 July 9th, 2014|Education, LGBTQ+|

The president of a Christian college in Massachusetts is defending his decision to sign a letter requesting a religious exemption to a forthcoming federal ban on anti-gay discrimination by federal contractors.

http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/jp/christian-colleges-president-defends-stance-against-ban-on-anti-gay-bias?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

The Chronicle of Higher Education

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El Rancho schools don’t wait on state, adopt ethnic-studies curriculum

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:52:52+00:00 July 8th, 2014|Education|

While some California legislators hope to implement a statewide ethnic-studies curriculum in coming years, one school district has decided not to wait.

http://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-ethnic-studies-20140708-story.html

Los Angeles TImes

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Expert Sees AAPI Churches, Elders as Keys to LGBT Inclusion in Higher Ed

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:52:53+00:00 July 1st, 2014|Education, LGBTQ+|

SAN FRANCISCO — Jess Delegencia came out as a gay man to his Baptist mother about six years ago, but she hasn’t actually said the word “gay” yet. It’s not as if she could have forgotten his sexual orientation either because, whenever she leaves her native Philippines to visit her son, she stays at the

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