Sentences with phrase «racial minorities account»

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New research by Morgan, Farkas, Hillemeier and Maczuga once again finds that when you take other student characteristics — notably family income and achievement — into account, racial and ethnic minority students are less likely to be identified for special education than white students.

Research shows that racial and ethnic minority students are less likely to be identified for special education than white students when you take other student characteristics into account.

The new law calls for replicating magnet school programs that demonstrate «success in increasing student academic achievement and reducing isolation of minority groups» and «increase racial integration by taking into account socioeconomic diversity.»

By order of this Court, New Haven, a city in which African - Americans and Hispanics account for nearly 60 percent of the population, must today be served — as it was in the days of undisguised discrimination — by a fire department in which members of racial and ethnic minorities are rarely seen in command positions.

These cases include the recent constitutional challenge to the Affordable Care Act and the decisions invalidating Sarbanes - Oxley's accounting board, preventing the Justice Department from obtaining monetary relief against the tobacco industry under RICO, overturning the federal government's plan to statistically adjust the census, limiting the Justice Department's ability to create «majority - minority» districts, and upholding Proposition 209's ban on racial preferences in California

Racial differences in the length of stay in foster care and types of placements may also account for over-representation of minority children in out - of - home care.