Sentences with phrase «latino students in districts»

«The seven Orthodox members of that board, Jewish members of that board, discriminate against the black and Latino students in that district.

«After reviewing Mr. Kayser's record in the light of day, we are left with a preponderance of evidence that suggests Mr. Kayser is, at best, out of touch with the educational hopes and aspirations of the Latino students in his district and at worst, dismissive of them entirely,» said Marquez.

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Total population in the district is roughly 157,000 adults and students, and 85 % are Caucasian, 7.8 % are of Hispanic or Latino origin, and 1.4 % are African American.

Sal Valenza of the West New York School District in New Jersey, which also serves primarily Latino students who overwhelmingly receive free and reduced lunch, has also had positive feedback from the students and administrators, and says changes to nutritional standards nationwide could have a big impact.

I'm greatly oversimplifying here, but there are roughly 9000 Black and Latino students in the East Ramapo District.

Concerns stem in part from a majority of students in the district attending religious schools, while the Board of Education is largely dominated by Hasidic men making decisions for a largely black and Latino student body.

Davids argued that black and Latino students in struggling districts across the city ultimately pay the price for thinning standards.

Roughly 9,000 students, the vast majority of them black or Latino, attend public schools in the district, while about 24,000 students who live there attend yeshivas.

Roughly 8,500 students, most of them black and Latino, attend the public schools in East Ramapo, while another 23,000 students in the district attend private schools, mostly yeshivas.

«I found that white and Latino student integration in the district was increasing, while black student integration fell.

The 100,000 - student school district was previously comprised of mostly black and white students, but in the last decade, Jefferson County doubled in Latino student enrollments.

For example, the Los Angeles Unified School District student body in 2010 was majority - minority, with 74 percent Latino and 9 percent white.

Fifty years ago, 94 percent of MCPS students were white, but today students of color predominate in the 159,000 - student district: 30 percent of students are Latino, 29 percent white, 22 percent black, and 14 percent Asian, while MCPS teachers are 75 percent white, roughly mirroring national statistics.

ENLACE programs have been set up in 13 school districts in seven states with the highest populations of Latino students — Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, New Mexico, New York, and Texas.

The students in grades 2 through 6 in the district are predominantly white (73 percent), with a sizable ethnic minority (Latino students compose 21 percent of the elementary population); 48 percent of them receive a free or reduced - price lunch.

In some prominent school districts such as San Francisco, APIs are the «majority» minority with 40 % of the student population, larger than the Latinos (30 %), Whites (14 %) and African - Americans (9 %).

Solis is the sole Latino on a nine - person board which oversees 160,000 students — 72 percent Latino — in one of the largest school districts in the country.

Even before this letter was mailed, the school district in Oakland, California, had settled charges of bias brought by the federal department of education by agreeing to «targeted reductions in the overall use of... suspensions for African American students, Latino students, and students receiving special education services.»

A similar pattern was seen among Latino and white students, particularly in urban districts with charter schools.

On the west side of Indianapolis, the students in the Wayne Township district are mostly Latino and African - American, and 75 percent of them qualify for free and reduced - price meals.

On recent New York State tests, students in city charter schools, serving a population of more than 90 percent African - American and Latino students, exceeded district - wide proficiency rates in math by 13 percentage points and by 5 percent in English.

The largest unified districts in Southern California tend to achieve better outcomes in educating traditionally underserved student populations than their Northern California counterparts, based on newly - released assessments of how well schools are teaching Latino, African - American and low - income students.

By and large, L.A. Unified charters also outperform the district average in API scores and graduation rates for Latino and African American students, and students from low - income families; in other words, they are succeeding at closing the socioeconomic achievement gap that plagues U.S. education.

Locke, where nearly all the students are either black or Latino and most of them are low - income, is located in a highly transient neighborhood in a highly transient district; more than a fourth of the students move every year.

Then there is North Carolina, which expects that its districts will get only 61.7 percent of black students in grades three - through eight toward reading proficiency in 2012 - 2013, while expecting only 64.7 percent of Latino and 65.2 percent of American Indian and Alaska Native kids to become proficient in reading; by 2014 - 2015, far lower than the proficiency rates for white and Asian peers; Tar Heel State leaders expect districts bring black, Latino, and Native students to proficiency levels of 69.3 percent, 71.7 percent, and 72.2 percent, respectively, by 2015.

Reliance upon supplemental funding through bonds and overrides disadvantages schools; while wealthy districts may be able to generate additional resources, they don't always have community support and underprivileged communities — serving Latino students in particular — often don't take the risk due to the little reward.

Thirty - eight percent of students in the district are Asian, 26 percent are Latino, 13 percent are white, and 8 percent are African - American.

More than half of the students there are Latino, the highest concentration of any district in Indiana.

From kindergarten through high school students get a state - of - the - art science education in a district where more than one third of the students are Latino, many of them English language learners, and 70 % receive free or reduced - price lunch.

From the embarrassment of approving abysmally low — and Plessy v. Ferguson - like — proficiency targets (including that for Virginia, which had only required districts to ensure that 57 percent of black students and 65 percent of Latino peers were proficient in math by 2016 - 2017), to complaints from House Education and the Workforce Committee Ranking Minority Member George Miller and civil rights - based reformers about how the administration allowed states such as South Dakota to count General Education Development certificates in their graduation rate calculations (and minimize graduation rates as a factor in accountability measures), the administration finds itself contending with complaints from civil rights - based reformers as well as from centrist Democrats finally acknowledging the high cost of their push for revamping No Child at any cost.

In addition, white students are nine times more likely than African - American students and 18 times more likely than Latino students to attend a high - quality district school.

In 2015 - 16 in Oakland Unified, according to district data, 75 percent of white students graduated high school on time, yet only 59 percent of African - American students graduated high school on time, and 55 percent of Latino students graduated high school on timIn 2015 - 16 in Oakland Unified, according to district data, 75 percent of white students graduated high school on time, yet only 59 percent of African - American students graduated high school on time, and 55 percent of Latino students graduated high school on timin Oakland Unified, according to district data, 75 percent of white students graduated high school on time, yet only 59 percent of African - American students graduated high school on time, and 55 percent of Latino students graduated high school on time.

For instance, schools participating in the Carnegie Foundation's Student Agency Improvement Community, a network of researchers and practitioners applying the science of learning mindsets to daily classroom practice, have seen stronger outcomes among low - income black and Latino students since implementing interventions focused on learning mindsets.34 Equal Opportunity Schools, a national nonprofit organization, has also partnered with school, county, and district leaders to increase the number of black and Latino students enrolled in advanced placement courses and has seen gains in both participation and passage rates as a result.35 In addition, several studies show that learning mindsets interventions can reduce the effects of stereotype threat among female, black, and Latino students in math and science classes.in the Carnegie Foundation's Student Agency Improvement Community, a network of researchers and practitioners applying the science of learning mindsets to daily classroom practice, have seen stronger outcomes among low - income black and Latino students since implementing interventions focused on learning mindsets.34 Equal Opportunity Schools, a national nonprofit organization, has also partnered with school, county, and district leaders to increase the number of black and Latino students enrolled in advanced placement courses and has seen gains in both participation and passage rates as a result.35 In addition, several studies show that learning mindsets interventions can reduce the effects of stereotype threat among female, black, and Latino students in math and science classes.in advanced placement courses and has seen gains in both participation and passage rates as a result.35 In addition, several studies show that learning mindsets interventions can reduce the effects of stereotype threat among female, black, and Latino students in math and science classes.in both participation and passage rates as a result.35 In addition, several studies show that learning mindsets interventions can reduce the effects of stereotype threat among female, black, and Latino students in math and science classes.In addition, several studies show that learning mindsets interventions can reduce the effects of stereotype threat among female, black, and Latino students in math and science classes.in math and science classes.36

Roses students are only slightly outperforming black and Latino students in Oakland's district schools, but Duncan - Andrade thinks they will start pulling ahead after more time at the new school.

Last month, the administration scrambled to get Virginia to scrap its low expectations for poor and minority children amid outcry from reformers and civil rights activists over the Old Dominion's move to approve AMO targets that only require districts to ensure that 57 percent of black students (and 65 percent of Latino peers) are proficient in math by 2016 - 2017; those targets were blessed by the administration back in June as part of its approval of the state's waiver proposal.

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During the 2012 - 13 school year in New Haven, a school district serving predominantly Black and Latino students, the district handed out nearly 2,000 out - of - school suspensions in a population of approximately 21,183 students.

It also reclassifies EL students at a higher rate than the district, 19 percent last year compared to 12 percent for the district, with Latino and disadvantaged students increasing their performance in both English and math this year.

In light of California's two - decades - old ban on affirmative action programs, it is not clear the extent to which districts will be able to establish programs targeted at black and Latino students specifically.

In her first year as Union City's superintendent, Silvia Correa - Abbato reinvested in the technological infrastructure for all 14 schools, created successful summer camps on coding and 3D printing for students in grades 2 to 5, and is currently working on implementing the district's first computer programming course for Latino studentIn her first year as Union City's superintendent, Silvia Correa - Abbato reinvested in the technological infrastructure for all 14 schools, created successful summer camps on coding and 3D printing for students in grades 2 to 5, and is currently working on implementing the district's first computer programming course for Latino studentin the technological infrastructure for all 14 schools, created successful summer camps on coding and 3D printing for students in grades 2 to 5, and is currently working on implementing the district's first computer programming course for Latino studentin grades 2 to 5, and is currently working on implementing the district's first computer programming course for Latino students.

A deeper look at five large districts and charter schools as a sector in Idaho shows that districts did better when they have a lower concentration of poor and Latino students.

Celerity Troika, located in Board District 5 and co-located on two campuses, Luther Burbank Middle School and Garvanza Elementary School, enrolled 609 students as of last October, with 68 percent qualifying for free or reduce - price lunch, 24 percent English language learners, 77 percent Latino and 4 percent African - American.

This report highlights growth in U.S. Latino students» reading scores over the last decade, using scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reading assessment to compare progress across states and major cities, and for some major urban school districts.

Graduations Up, Dropouts Down in LAUSD, Statewide High school graduation rates for Los Angeles Unified and districts across California increased last year, with Latino students showing larger gains than their white and Asian classmates, the state Department of Education said Tuesday.

Attempting to show that even a well - managed school district can't close achievement gaps in student learning, McRae showed Fraisse data from the state Department of Education showing significant differences in test scores between African - American and Latino students and white students in some of the administrator's former school districts.

Though Brizard touts improvements in graduation rates and test scores among his accomplishments in his 3 1/2 years, opinion is sharply divided on whether he has made a significant difference in the performance of the district's largely low - income black and Latino students....

Roughly 8,500 students, most of them black and Latino, attend the public schools in East Ramapo, while another 23,000 students in the district attend private schools, mostly yeshivas.

«I think in terms of some of the highlights, we're glad that there's growth across ELA and math for most grade levels,» said Derrick Chau, the district's senior executive director of P - 12 Education in the Division of Instruction, pointing to improvements for African - American and Latino students.

Responding to a comment by DeVos that she couldn't think of an ongoing civil rights issue that would warrant federal involvement, Lhamon, in an op - ed for The Hechinger Report, ran down the types of cases her office had worked on: a North Carolina University revoking a student's acceptance after discovering he had cerebral palsy; a segregated Alabama school district offering advanced courses at its high schools that served primarily white students, but not at the high school that served virtually all of its black students; California district employees ignoring sexual assault cases because they considered them part of their Latino students» «urban culture.»