VCU, Penn State researchers shed light on racial, economic segregation in Virginia schools
Published Thursday, Apr. 29, 2021, 6:24 am
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A pair of new reports by researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University and Penn State explores the contours of school segregation by race and poverty in Virginia over the past decade and reveals how Virginia students do not have equal access to higher-level coursework, specifically Advanced Placement classes.
“Together the briefs show why segregation matters and the dynamics that shape it, particularly for Black and Latinx students in Virginia,” said author Genevieve Siegel-Hawley, Ph.D., an associate professor in the Department of Educational Leadership in the VCU School of Education. “The issue is especially urgent as racial demographics i
Member of Parliament Juliet Cuthbert-Flynn. Credit: Kate Chappell
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Feb 12 2021 (IPS) - It was a joyful, tearful celebration in the early morning hours of Dec. 30, 2020 for countless Argentinians when they heard the news: the senate had legalized terminations up to 14 weeks of pregnancy. Prior to this, activists have said that more than 3,000 women died of botched, illegal abortions since 1983. And across the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region, this renewed sense of optimism was compounded after President Joe Biden rescinded what is known as the “global gag rule,” which essentially denied funding to international non-profit organizations that provided abortion counseling or referrals.
At least one minister of religion is of the view that members of the Christian community should exercise a sense of humility, rather than arrogance regarding the issue of whether to legalise abortion in Jamaica.
At the same time, Rector at Christ Church in Vineyard Town, Reverend Father Sean Major-Campbell, has also posited that abortion is not an issue for the church, but rather the state. When it comes to human rights issues like safe access to abortions, it is a matter that the state needs to address, he contended.
He was one of the panellists at a recent webinar hosted by the Caribbean Policy Research Institute (CAPRI) as it presented its findings in a European Union-funded report titled: ‘Coming to Terms: The Social Costs of Unequal Access to Safe Abortions’.
Bishop Dr Alvin Bailey
A senior clergyman has described as atrocious, disgraceful and alarming a recommendation by the Caribbean Policy Research Institute (CAPRI) that minors be allowed to access an abortion on their own without the consent of a parent.
Bishop Dr Alvin Bailey, the chairman of the Jamaica Churches Action Uniting Society for Emancipation (CAUSE), said in a statement on Monday that the proposal by CAPRI must be rejected by all well thinking Jamaicans .
He added that such a call could be translated to mean that these persons of high intelligence and outstanding academic achievements are spiritually deprived in advocating abortion as a method of contraceptive.