Sentences with phrase «advocating racial minority»

Wanting to show that he could serve a multicultural student body well, Superintendent Wilson distanced himself from advocating racial minority concerns early in his administration.

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During Mr. de Blasio's run for public advocate four years ago, Ms. McCray sat in on focus groups in which minority voters talked about the strong appeal of the family's racial diversity — images of which Mr. de Blasio featured prominently in campaign brochures and mailers.

Civil - rights advocates were initially skeptical, but many saw the potential power of a reform movement that would not brook separate and lower expectations for poor children, immigrants, or racial minorities.

As a parent and advocate for minority children in Seattle public schools, she says she's frustrated at how racial segregation has morphed and mutated — hidden but apparent to those facing it.

That measure drew strong opposition from advocates for English - language learners, racial minorities, disadvantaged students and those in special education who saw it as watering down accountability.

Liberals divided Finally, because alternative certification has been sought by racial minority groups advocating for education reform, the issue has divided political liberals into uncomfortable camps.