Jessica Emola Oliver English 1301 12-3-2016 Bryan Texas school zone issue: School zones have been an issue in Bryan and College Station for a while now and are always changing. The school zones we have had cause unequal distribution of race and economic status throughout the schools, leading to unequal funding and disciplinary problems throughout the students. The Bryan Independent School District and the College Station Independent School District really need to sit down, talk about and act on the only solution to this problem, which is creating school zones that benefit everyone equally, economically and racially, to help improve the issues inside our schools. Bryan …show more content…
Instead, the current system decided which school you attend based on what side of the road you live on or what area of town you live in. A school zone doesn't have to be a straight line, such as going straight down highway 6 or straight down highway 21, this is what has been done in the past and it just doesn't work. The best thing to do would be for the school board to meet up and put a map in front of them, the next step would be to start from one side of Bryan and start separating the North and South side, but not into a straight line as usual. The separation needs to be down backroads and alleys where the equality can come into play. This can be done by adding poor neighborhoods and rich neighborhoods to each school zone equally. The Bryan Independent School District website has a preview of the 2017 school zone map and, it looks like they are starting to figure out these simple changes. “These maps reflect months of careful planning and input from stakeholders, including multiple small group discussions and two public forums”(bryanisd.org). Changes to the maps were implemented after public input in order to incorporate feedback and enhance or improve the zoning maps, where possible. Once school zones are put into place that divide the school districts into more equal and fair parts, the school districts can start to work on the racial and economical diversity that divide the
The overt racism of this system is exposed when districts with little money run out of space for their kids and try to rent empty space from wealthier districts. Those that agree require the kids to stay entirely segregated from the white student body,
While segregation is said the have been abolished, we can still see its effects through “second-generation discrimination” (Nieto, 2010). Nieto describes this as unequal access to learning through practices such as inflexible tracking and differentiated curriculum in different classroom and schools. When I first heard this term, it made me think about how neighborhood develop. In the cities I have traveled to I see how different areas of a town can lead to similar cultures and races forming together in specific areas. I feel this ties directly into the previous topic of funding. Every major city I have lived in had the affluent neighborhood and, on the flip side, the poor section of town. Since areas have different income levels, they will contribute to the school districts in different ways. This situation becomes exacerbated over the years as people select where to live with their families and the gap becomes wider and wider. As an Army recruiter, while not
The article from the Austin American-Statesman provides relevant information regarding the history of Austin and segregation policies that ultimately affected the particular East Austin area where we hope to provide and improve better education access and outcomes for poverty-stricken children. Starting as far back as the late 1800s and early 1900s, Hispanics and African Americans lived in different patches throughout the city of Austin, Texas. In 1917, the United States Supreme court issued a ruling of segregation zoning laws and like many other cities in the South, Austin began to develop these news policies to isolate minorities. By doing so, the city of Austin, unintentionally, created a setback for the education of minorities. Additionally,
“When we can predict how well students will do in school by looking at their zip code, we know we have a serious systemic problem” (Gloria Ladson-Billings 20). When we are able to forecast how a child will perform by where the child resides, then how can we say that every child is receiving quality education. The unsuccessful educational system infused into the United States is affecting the majority of minorities. In the United States students due to their race and social class, suffer from underfunded public schools, inexperienced teachers, and housing segregation, which in turn inhibit their opportunity to succeed through education. These difficulties plaque students from the very beginning of their public school experience and follow them throughout their academic life. There are a few solutions to these issues but they have to be implemented and enforced with a slow integration.
Thus, if district lines were drawn on the basis of race, or if discriminatory acts of one district caused segregation in another, an inter-district remedy may be in order. However, this is not the case here (cases.org).” The District Courts cannot redraw the lines of integrated school systems to achieve racial balance in a segregated school system absent an inter-district violation or effect.
Medomak Valley High School, located in Waldoboro, ME, is the only high school in Maine School Administrative District #40 and serves students from Friendship, Waldoboro, Warren, Washington, and Union in midcoast Maine. For decades, the school district had two middle schools - A.D. Gray Middle School, which served students from Friendship and Waldoboro, and D.R. Gaul Middle School, which served students from Warren, Washington, and Union. In the fall of 2008, the year I started at Medomak Valley High School, the district opened Medomak Middle School to serve all seventh and eighth grade students in the district and closed A.D. Gray Middle School and D.R. Gaul Middle School. The new middle school was built at the Medomak Valley High
In this detailed and shocking book, Jonathan Kozol describes the horrific and unjust conditions in which many children in today’s society are forced to get their education. Kozol discusses three major reasons for the discrepancies in America’s schools today: disparities of property taxes, racism, and the conflict between state and local control. The first of these reasons is that of the differences of available property tax revenues. Kozol discusses the inconsistencies in property tax revenues and the problem that the poorer districts aren’t getting the same opportunities for education as the more affluent neighborhoods. He says the reason for this is that the
America’s school system and student population remains segregated, by race and class. The inequalities that exist in schools today result from more than just poorly managed schools; they reflect the racial and socioeconomic inequities of society as a whole. Most of the problems of schools boil down to either racism in and outside the school or financial disparity between wealthy and poor school districts. Because schools receive funding through local property taxes, low-income communities start at an economic disadvantage. Less funding means fewer resources, lower quality instruction and curricula, and little to no community involvement. Even when low-income schools manage to find adequate funding, the money doesn’t solve all the school’s
I believe in giving students their best chance at success. Toward that end, I am eager to put my educational skills to use by serving Chautauqua Striders as a tutor and I am ready to step into this role immediately. My content specialty is mathematics and I would be comfortable tutoring grades K-12 so I am interested in both positions listed on your website: Elementary / Middle School Tutor and After-school Tutors @ Chautauqua Striders. My younger sister, Tiffany Jager, tutored for Chautauqua Striders prior to attending Caltech and it is because of this connection that I learned about this opportunity through word of mouth. Mathematics has been my favorite subject since childhood, and throughout my education I discovered my desire and
In Texas, there are many laws that place restrictions on the challenge of abortion. According to the Oxford Dictionary, abortion is defined as "the deliberate termination of a human pregnancy, most often performed during the first 28 weeks of pregnancy." Currently, with the Texas Senate Bill 5 declaring unconstitutional, there are fewer rules on abortion. However, many women cannot have abortions due to procedural and procedural restrictions.
The State Board of Education (SBOE) sets the policies and standards for Texas public schools. In Texas the Texas Education Agency (TEA) oversees primary and secondary education of students. The TEA helps provides the resources, guidance and leadership to help schools meet the educational needs of all students, according to the TEA. The SBOE is composed of three committees; committee on instruction, committee on school finance and a committee on school initiatives. The SBOE has adopted curriculum standards called the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS). The TEKS describe what students should know and be able to do, in each grade and subject area.
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Recently, the issue of allowing transgender people access to public facilities according to the gender they identify with has caused much debate throughout the United States. The bathroom bill seeks to control access to public facilities of transgender individuals, based on the gender they were assigned at birth. In 2015, bills were passed stating entering a bathroom not assigned to a person at birth was a crime. Surrounded by misconception, the bill does “not legalize harassment, stalking, violence, or sexual assault.” Since the bill arose, there have not been a rise in violence or other incidents in the states protecting the transgender rights (Transgender Equality). The bill simply states if one is living as a woman, to use the women’s restroom,
Sar and Guzman aren’t the same exact person nor did they have exactly the same political strategies concerning the economy and government. What they did have in common was a general outlook on how power should shift from one place to another. In practice, it shows that Chairman Gonzalo and Pol Pot had very similar methods of externalizing their desires, and both left a disastrous wake in their path.
Local control of school districts has proven to have mixed results. Local control allows districts to experiment and keeps problems from one district affecting another. At the same time however, local control keeps good ideas from spreading quickly. Local districts have produced a diverse range of possible solutions to the problems that public schools face. Unfortunately, the huge amount of diversity that is present from district to district has also made progress harder to measure.