These systems flagrantly favored school districts in affluent white suburbs and discriminated against poor districts in urban and rural areas with high minority populations. (psmag.com)
Such an effect might also see Labour move back towards the vast majority of BME candidates in high minority population seats — ie less Parmjit Dhanda / Ashok Kumar examples of representing areas with low BME populations — but one difference between Labour and the other parties is that Labour does hold such seats, and so the effect of very strong local preferences in the other parties would be stronger. (liberalconspiracy.org)
Fact: schools with high minority populations and low test scores have more teachers with unsatisfactory ratings. (studentsfirstny.org)