The Office of Civil Rights of the Department of Health, Edu cation and Welfare is investi gating a complaint by Puerto Rican parents on the Lower East Side that the Board of Education's redistricting plan for Manhattan schools fosters segregation.
The DOJ also asserts that the court could even interfere with the award of scholarships in the 35 racially unitary districts no longer under court order, if the program supports, results in, or fosters segregation or discrimination.
These problems of poverty influence education and are magnified by housing policies that foster segregation.
We need policies that actively promote integration, rather than foster segregation and ultimately lead to greater social isolation.
But many also worry that charters foster segregation, siphon funding from traditional public schools and cater to policymakers' obsession with standardized tests.
Clark, who had grown up in Harlem and was a professor at the City College of New York, then turned his attention to the city government, which, he charged, had fostered segregation in the schools.
A Manhattan judge has scheduled a hearing next month to determine whether the city's plan to develop public housing in a rundown patch of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, would essentially foster segregation.
Some fret that schools for children of a particular faith foster segregation; others cite parents' right to educate their offspring as they see fit, adding that religious schools outperform secular ones (though opponents say that is because richer children go to them).
This is the structure that fosters occupation, segregation, discrimination, humiliation, and, at the same time, saps the will and the means to do anything about it.
Such shifts, in turn, will impact scores at those schools, and the cycle will repeat, fostering deeper segregation.
Nor is there evidence linking the promotion of competition between schools to improved standards or more innovation, though it does tend to foster social segregation, which is more pronounced here than in almost all other comparable countries.
