Education – Page 69 – 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.

State school-board president defends Hitler post on Facebook

By Carmen Chandler| 2013-01-25T16:32:24+00:00 January 25th, 2013|Education|

State Board of Education President Debe Terhar said she was not comparing President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler when she posted a photograph of the Nazi leader on her Facebook page with a message critical of the administration’s new gun-control efforts.

Group Suggests Improvements in Aid System With an Eye to Completion and Nontraditional Students

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:12:14+00:00 January 25th, 2013|Education|

A coalition of higher-education experts, civil-rights organizers, policy makers, and others is endorsing a set of proposals to improve the student-aid system.

Immigrant-Rights Group Unveils a ‘Fair Common Application’

By Carmen Chandler| 2013-01-25T16:25:04+00:00 January 25th, 2013|Education, Immigration|

Activists in a student-led immigrant-rights group have unveiled a spinoff Web site modeled on the Common Application that aims to pressure the widely used admissions portal to include “undocumented American” in its demographic questions and “undocumented status” in its nondiscrimination clause.

Read more in The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/article/Immigrants-Rights-Group/136839/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

Museum Cancels Troy U. Faculty Art Show Over Images Called Offensive

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:12:14+00:00 January 24th, 2013|Education, Intergroup Relations|

An art show at an Alabama museum that was meant to feature the work of Troy University faculty members has been called off after the museum’s board deemed some of the images submitted by one of the artists to be offensive.

Group Finds Texas Admissions Policy Does Not Lead to Increased Diversity

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:12:14+00:00 January 23rd, 2013|Education|

The Texas law that guarantees admission into a public university for students who graduate in the top ten percent of their high school class “lives up to some of the expectations of its proponents,” but there is little evidence that the law leads to notable increases in diversity.

Read more in Diverse Issues in Higher Education:

Among University of California Applicants, Latinos Take the Lead

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:12:14+00:00 January 22nd, 2013|Education, Intergroup Relations|

As colleges continue to review — and tally — the thousands of applications that have poured into their admission offices this school year, a demographic milestone has cropped up in California.

Read more in The New York Times: http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/18/latinos-university-california/

Backed by State Money, Georgia Scholarships Go to Schools Barring Gays

By Carmen Chandler| 2013-01-22T17:18:23+00:00 January 22nd, 2013|Education, Intergroup Relations, LGBTQ+|

ATLANTA — As the nation works its way through the debate over vouchers and other alternatives to traditional public education funding, a quieter battle over homosexuality, religious education and school tax money is under way in Georgia.

Report Criticizes School Discipline Measures Used in Mississippi

By Carmen Chandler| 2013-01-17T17:04:18+00:00 January 17th, 2013|Education, Intergroup Relations|

ess than three months after the Justice Department sued Meridian, Miss., after finding that school students there were routinely arrested without probable cause, a report by a group of civil rights organizations says that “overly harsh school disciplinary policies” are common throughout the state.

Forging Path to Starting Line for Younger Disabled Athletes

By Carmen Chandler| 2013-01-16T17:13:27+00:00 January 16th, 2013|Education|

Some young disabled athletes are having their own Oscar Pistorius moments — not by breaking barriers in the Olympics, but by battling sports officials over whether and how they should be accommodated in competitions with able-bodied athletes.

Gifted, Talented and Separated: In One School, Students Are Divided by Gifted Label — and Race

By Carmen Chandler| 2013-01-14T17:03:33+00:00 January 14th, 2013|Education|

IT is just a metal door with three windows, the kind meant to keep the clamor of an elementary school hallway from piercing a classroom’s quiet. Other than paint the color of bubble gum, it is unremarkable.