Archive | Race in Schools

Move will help black and Hispanic women “present themselves to the world.”

A reader's letter to a local paper warns what the future holds.

The town's white share of the population dropped over 25 percent in 20 years.

They claim it's all about "white toxicity and supremacist values."

"It’s well past the time for politicians to scapegoat public schools and educators." We agree.

School superintendent claims "The decision was based on operational considerations only, not religion."

Whites are seceding.

The model is wrong in so many ways.

Thorough integration and "equity" programs haven't closed achievement gaps.

The teacher was white; the student was black.

"The low scores reflect a lack of investment in early childhood education and in the public school system."

Seattle will work "ethnic studies" into art classes, too.

It’s not busing; it’s redistricting.

She was expected to agree that “there is White toxicity in the air and we all breathe it in.”

The focus in history will be on Western colonialism, the slave trade, and nationalism.

“For schools to become integrated and, more importantly, equalized, it means that some kids will suffer.”

Is it 2019 or 1957?

“Merit” is a code word for “white.”

It’s racially biased.

Even the local priest is booed for supporting illegal immigration.

The “special needs” school spends more than 7.5 times as much per student as Baltimore’s leading high school.

Race "is now becoming the most important issue of all."

Disrupting the "school-to-prison pipeline."

It was a “role-playing exercise” reenacting the Middle Passage.

Montgomery County blames the messenger.

Even if it’s not a noose, “it harms the community.”

One-fourth of Maryland schools are considered segregated.

There are too many children's books with white main characters.

Non-white teachers can’t pass the math tests.

Construction has begun!

Not enough black and Hispanic students are gifted.

State law bans Indian mascots in Maine.

They give blacks a "feeling of inferiority."

They’re as bad as the Confederate flag.

“District mismanagement,” not racial antagonism, was to blame for the segregation.

The school has the right to dictate dress codes, but it buckled just the same.

An “ethnic studies handbook” teaches children to be “agents of change.”

Black kid gave a white kid a concussion while playing dodgeball.

As Hispanics move in, whites move out.

Schools should “promote student agency to end societal inequities.”

Lawsuit says district officials harass whites due to their race.

Now the government is investigating.

Because blacks and Hispanics are more likely to receive long suspensions.

Painting over it will cost at least $600,000.

“I don’t think you’re a racist,” she said, before attacking him for racism.

The school system doesn’t reflect “how New York City looks.”

The solution is to hire more non-white teachers.

Creating a teaching force of revolutionaries and radicals.

White teachers' bias causes black and brown failure.

Students who get extra time to take the elite public high schools admissions tests are often white or well off.

Black fragility.

Expanding gifted programs to every neighborhood may increase segregation.

Liberal thinks “lazy” a code word for “black."

Marlen Ochoa-Lopez never saw it coming.

Victims of the department's crusade against “toxic whiteness.”

Obligatory anti-white training for all teachers in NYC schools.

Cal State sociology prof: Their actions show a lack of cultural intelligence.

Black superintendent wants to train teachers and staff in “racial equity, diversity, and inclusion.”

School thinks the OK sign will signal "white supremacy" to future colleges and employers.

It's part of a broader approach to root out "white supremacy" in the workplace.

Today marks 65 years since Brown v. Board of Education.

Only theoretically.

The genetic hypothesis seems to be stronger than the cultural one.

Alas, stereotypes confirmed.

Maryland school officials find creative ways to exclude whites and Asians.

Washington Post writer thinks whites should send their children to underperforming schools.

"Is the State of California saying its teachers are racist?"

"Very white" curricula must change too.

They probably shouldn’t visit Mount Rushmore.

Black student's weighted GPA was lowered because of courses she took at a historically black school.

You'll never guess why.

Asian admissions plummeted after magnet schools sought greater "diversity."

"The purpose of the text is to promote critical thinking."

The charter schools want more money than the law allows.

Local historian calls it a "modern-day book burning."