Education – Page 73 – 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.

In Texas, a Legal Battle Over Biblical Banners

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:28:02+00:00 October 22nd, 2012|Education, Intergroup Relations|

KOUNTZE, Tex. — In a barrage of recent e-mails, telephone calls and letters to his office, Kevin Weldon has been called some of the worst things a Christian man in this predominantly Christian town can be called: un-Christian, and even anti-Christian.

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Admitted, but Left Out

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:28:02+00:00 October 22nd, 2012|Education, Intergroup Relations|

WHEN Ayinde Alleyne arrived at the Trinity School, an elite independent school on the Upper West Side in Manhattan, he was eager to make new friends. A brainy 14-year-old, he was the son of immigrants from Trinidad and Tobago, a teacher and an auto-body repairman, in the South Bronx. He was soon overwhelmed by the

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Texas Judge, Siding With Cheerleaders, Allows Bible Verses on Banners at School Games

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:28:02+00:00 October 19th, 2012|Education, Intergroup Relations|

KOUNTZE, Tex. — A judge on Thursday gave a group of cheerleaders here a temporary victory in their fight to display Bible verses on banners at public school football games, allowing them to continue to use the signs for the rest of the season.

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Florida Officials Defend Racial and Ethnic Learning Goals

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:28:02+00:00 October 18th, 2012|Education|

MIAMI — When the Florida Board of Education voted this month to set different goals for student achievement in reading and math by race and ethnicity, among other guidelines, the move was widely criticized as discriminatory and harmful to blacks and Hispanics.

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Editorial: UC Berkeley’s ‘hostile environment’ question

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:28:03+00:00 October 15th, 2012|Education, Intergroup Relations|

The U.S. Department of Education has launched an investigation into whether Jewish students at the university are the victims of a “pervasive hostile environment” in violation of federal civil rights laws.

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Too Conservative for Law School? Trial Begins Monday in Iowa Bias Case

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:28:03+00:00 October 15th, 2012|Education, Intergroup Relations|

Conservatives regularly rail against liberal bias in academe, but rarely do such complaints turn into lawsuits that make it all the way to trial. On Monday, Teresa R. Wagner gets to make that argument in a federal court in Davenport, Iowa. She maintains that University of Iowa law-school faculty turned her down for teaching jobs

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Justices Weigh Race as Factor at Universities

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:28:03+00:00 October 11th, 2012|Education, Intergroup Relations|

WASHINGTON — With the future of affirmative action in higher education hanging in the balance, the Supreme Court on Wednesday grappled with two basic questions, repeated by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. in various forms at least a dozen times.

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Gallaudet Puts Diversity Officer on Leave for Allegedly Signing Anti-Gay Petition

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:28:03+00:00 October 11th, 2012|Education, Intergroup Relations, LGBTQ+|

T. Alan Hurwitz, Gallaudet’s president, said in a statement on Wednesday that he had placed the official on leave for participating in an effort “that some feel is inappropriate for an individual serving as chief diversity officer.” She allegedly signed a petition to put on the Maryland ballot this November a measure opposing same-sex

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Why Fisher Will Win and Texas Will Lose

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:28:03+00:00 October 11th, 2012|Education, Intergroup Relations|

When we examine controversial topics and the respective arguments made for each side, sometimes we see one group reaching for support that stretches a point so far that it looks more like desperation than reasoning. The quality of evidence is so flimsy and thin that we don’t wonder whether it’s right or wrong. We ask,

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On U. of Texas’ Flagship Campus, Soul-Searching Over Diversity

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:28:03+00:00 October 11th, 2012|Education, Intergroup Relations|

Not long after the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear Abigail Fisher’s case against the University of Texas at Austin, a lighthearted joke made the rounds at the Warfield Center for African and African-American Studies here on the flagship campus. At its core was a high-energy fifth-year student from Houston named Tedra Jacobs.