Education – Page 75 – 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.

Since Suicide, More Resources for Transgender and Gay Students

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:28:05+00:00 September 24th, 2012|Education, LGBTQ+|

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — It has been two years since Tyler Clementi, a gay freshman at Rutgers University, committed suicide after learning that his roommate had ridiculed his sexuality and invited friends to spy on him and another man through a webcam. That terrible episode brought the school national attention, none of it welcome: previously

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Segregation Prominent in Schools, Study Finds

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:28:06+00:00 September 20th, 2012|Education, Intergroup Relations|

The United States is increasingly a multiracial society, with white students accounting for just over half of all students in public schools, down from four-fifths in 1970.

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Study of anti-Semitic, anti-Muslim bias on UC campuses stirs debate

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:28:06+00:00 September 18th, 2012|Education, Intergroup Relations|

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is again extending its reach onto University of California campuses, raising questions about the limits of free speech and how welcome Jewish and Muslim students feel at their schools.

Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-uc-speech-20120918,0,6953567.story?234234

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Defying Governor, Arizona College Offers Tuition Break for Illegal Immigrants

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:28:06+00:00 September 14th, 2012|Education, Immigration|

Officials of the Maricopa County Community College District, in Arizona, said on Wednesday that young illegal immigrants who obtained work permits under the terms of the Obama administration’s deferred-action program would be allowed to use those documents to prove their state residency, thus giving them access to lower in-state tuition rates.

Minority Education Think Tank to Launch Online

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:28:06+00:00 September 13th, 2012|Education, Intergroup Relations|

A new online education think tank that aims to expand the involvement of people of color in the growing national debate over how best to educate America’s children is being launched this week in Washington by a group of Black business and education veterans complemented by a broad-based corps of volunteers with special interests in

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Scholars voice opposition to California Assembly resolution on “anti-Semitism”

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:28:06+00:00 September 11th, 2012|Education, Intergroup Relations|

In response to the California Assembly’s recent passage of a resolution calling on university administations to address what it calls “anti-Semitism” on California campuses, a group of academics have written an open letter of opposition to each of the 66 Assemblymembers who authored and/or sponsored the resolution.

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Catholic College Draws Fire for Course That Calls Homosexuality ‘Deviant’

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:29:25+00:00 September 11th, 2012|Education, LGBTQ+|

A course at the Franciscan University of Steubenville that cites homosexuality as “deviant behavior” has sparked an outcry from the Ohio institution’s gay alumni, and could jeopardize the accreditation of its social-work program, NPR reports.

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U.S. House Scrutinizes NLRB Over Recent Actions on Higher Education

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:29:25+00:00 September 11th, 2012|Education, Intergroup Relations|

The Republican-dominated U.S. House of Representatives is scrutinizing the National Labor Relations Board for its recent actions on labor organizing in higher education.

Read more in The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/article/US-House-Scrutinizes-NLRB/134292/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

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Court Rulings Help Illegal Immigrants’ College-Bound Children

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:29:25+00:00 September 6th, 2012|Education, Immigration|

Several states with financial difficulties have moved quietly in recent years to reduce spending on college education by denying low tuition rates and financial aid to American citizens who are the children of illegal immigrants.

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Florida: Judge Rules Against Tuition Inequality

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:29:25+00:00 September 6th, 2012|Education, Immigration|

Students at Florida’s public colleges and universities who are United States citizens or legal residents cannot be charged out-of-state tuition simply because their parents are in the country illegally, a federal judge has ruled.

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