Sentences with phrase «as racial disparity»

They plan to continue meeting this year to discuss other issues, such as racial disparity within the youth centers and the needs of people who identify as LGBTQ.

That gap was more than twice as large as the racial disparity in national graduation rates, which saw 87.6 percent of white students graduate in four years compared to 74.6 percent of black students.

But she cast the issue mostly as a racial disparity one, saying the vast majority of people arrested for marijuana are blacks or Latinos.

Sen, who also studies public - health issues such as racial disparities in obesity, wanted to follow up the firearm study, but shelved the idea for lack of funding.

«However, the present analysis suggests the exact opposite, with both absolute rates as well as racial disparities in adverse birth outcomes being greatest in southern states.»

The judge's finding that the district has not fully desegregated was based not on the racial composition of classrooms, but on such factors as racial disparities in academic achievement.

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In defending his record, Sessions is likely to point to his vote to confirm Eric Holder as the country's first black attorney general and to his co-sponsorship of the Fair Sentencing Act, which sought to reduce racial disparities in how black and white drug offenders are treated.

In April 2005, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer asked Wells Fargo and three other large banks for information on loan conditions and credit scores as he investigated whether the racial disparities in high cost loans violated state laws.

• In the USA, when the father's name is on the birth certificate, racial / ethnic disparities in infant mortality rates are reduced substantially, as is infant mortality itself.

Lack of diversity in lactation field: Not only are there blatant racial disparities in breastfeeding rates, there is a blatant disparity in breastfeeding leadership as well.

Unfortunately, significant racial / ethnic disparities in breastfeeding initiation and duration exist in the US with black and some Latina women having lower rates of both as compared with white women.

Racial and ethnic disparities persist in the prevalence of preterm birth and infant mortality, and group prenatal care may be particularly useful in addressing disparities in perinatal outcomes such as preterm birth among black women.

Speaking to about 1,000 people Nixon cast her support as primarily driven by racial disparity in marijuana arrests, declaring that «I want to do it first and foremost because it's a racial justice issue.»

«End the war on pot: We welcome the push to legalize and regulate marijuana» — Daily News Editorial Board: «After many decades of treating as a crime the personal possession and use of a drug that is a negligible threat to public safety, New York is awakening to the folly of — and racial disparities widened by — its approach.

And that same commitment is the reason why one of my first acts as Prime Minister was to establish the ground - breaking racial disparity audit - investigating how a person's race affects their treatment by public services, so that we can take action and respond.

Nixon also blasted racial disparities in marijuana enforcement as the mayor and the NYPD face criticism for persisting disparities, despite the fact that the city revised its policy in 2014 to address them.

«I am disappointed that there is racial disparity in arrests, as I have been and was in the leadership on stop - and - frisk, and I want to see it corrected,» Sharpton said, responding to a reporter's question about de Blasio's attitude toward the issue.

«In those cities lay inequality, racial disparities, things that have roiled the Democratic Party and the country as a whole.

Obama, reacting with the same horror as many Americans to a grisly video of a bloody, dying man in Minnesota who was shot by the police, begged the nation to confront the racial disparities in law enforcement while acknowledging the dangers that officers face.

Nixon also blasted racial disparities in marijuana enforcement as the mayor and the NYPD face criticisms for persisting disparities.

But, he struggled for concrete answers at other times, such as when debate panelists asked how he would reform the city's child welfare services to reduce racial disparities or what he would do about the city's jails.

Contributions include discussions on racial disparities in special education placements, the intersection of disability with other identity variables such as gender and sexuality; the exploitation of disabled bodies to generate resources for humanitarian projects; and suggestions for how a human rights framework can promote inclusivity and better health outcomes.

Few studies have explored potential reasons for the racial disparity in ASD diagnosis, though some researchers have suggested unequal access to healthcare and clinician prejudice as explanations.

They are now examining some of the outpatient factors that may result in disparities, such as frequency of follow - up, and further investigating racial and socioeconomic disparities in treatment and outcomes of children with Crohn's disease.

«The tendency to base classroom observation on the gender and race of the child may explain in part why those children are more frequently identified as misbehaving and hence why there is a racial disparity in discipline,» added Walter S. Gilliam, director of The Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy and associate professor of child psychiatry and psychology at the Yale Child Study Center.

For racial disparities in legal outcomes, such acknowledgment of potential problems need not be cast as a «political issue.»»

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«I'd like to see NIH go to a three - pronged standard [that includes socioeconomic factors],» she says, «so long as MARC students still demonstrate a desire to look at the racial disparities in our health care system.»

Ford, an associate professor in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology and an investigator at the Neuroscience Institute at the Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) in Atlanta, Georgia, says that when he came to the historically black MSM four years ago he chose stroke research as the area he wanted to concentrate on for two reasons: The medical school recognized the racial and regional disparities of the disease and placed stroke high on its list of illnesses to study, and the field combines the several prongs of his varied academic training and interests.

«And we hope to see racial and ethnic disparities in breastfeeding diminish as more hospitals serving low - income populations become «baby - friendly» and encourage breastfeeding through close maternal - infant contact after birth and discouraging formula use.»

As the costs of college in the U.S. continue to rise, the disproportionate level of student loan debt among black young adults is cause for concern, as high student loan debt loads may exacerbate racial disparities in college dropout and completion rates, and may also have broader implications across the life course, including young people's ability to attain other conventional markers of adulthood (such as marriage and becoming a parentAs the costs of college in the U.S. continue to rise, the disproportionate level of student loan debt among black young adults is cause for concern, as high student loan debt loads may exacerbate racial disparities in college dropout and completion rates, and may also have broader implications across the life course, including young people's ability to attain other conventional markers of adulthood (such as marriage and becoming a parentas high student loan debt loads may exacerbate racial disparities in college dropout and completion rates, and may also have broader implications across the life course, including young people's ability to attain other conventional markers of adulthood (such as marriage and becoming a parentas marriage and becoming a parent).

As to the reason why certain racial and ethnic minorities have poorer rates of treatment for cardiovascular disease and generally have poorer cardiovascular health outcomes compared to white patients, Dr. Ladapo concludes that no one has really explored whether there could be disparities in cardiac stress testing, which is a mainstay of diagnosing patients with heart disease in this country.

The racial disparity was almost twice as large as the well - documented difference between men and women.»

Recent Thyroid Cancer Trends in the United States Suggest Age, Racial Disparities April 1, 2017 In the United States, thyroid cancer incidence is rising among young people as well as Hispanics and African Americans, a new study reports.

Experts say that racial disparities have long been known to exist in who actually develops risk factors for the condition, with African Americans nearly twice as likely to be diagnosed with diabetes and more than a third as likely to have high blood pressure than Caucasian Americans.

More urgent matters took priority, though, with features screened on topics as current as gun control (Surviving Sandy Hook), the war on drugs (Cartel Land), sexual abuse on university campuses (The Hunting Ground), economic disparity (The Divide), racial tension (3 1/2 Minutes, Ten Bullets), and climate change and its continued denial (Merchants of Doubt).

As a consequence, the racial disparities in student achievement are no longer larger in the South than in other parts of the country.

Taking issue with the AFT's involvement in opt - out, Stewart wrote, «Why waste an opportunity to exploit the energy of white moms and the teachers that serve them who now see the obsession with closing racial disparities in schools as stealing joy from children of relative privilege?»

The B&B: 08/12 does not yet follow students as long as its 1993 counterpart (which ultimately followed students for 10 years post-graduation), but already provides sufficient follow - up to reveal distressing racial disparities.

Implication # 3: New repayment options such as the Revised Pay - As - You - Earn (REPAYE) plan may alleviate the worst consequences of racial debt disparities, while failing to address underlying causeas the Revised Pay - As - You - Earn (REPAYE) plan may alleviate the worst consequences of racial debt disparities, while failing to address underlying causeAs - You - Earn (REPAYE) plan may alleviate the worst consequences of racial debt disparities, while failing to address underlying causes.

Cross-sectional analyses which do not follow borrowers over time, as well as longitudinal analyses that track graduates from distant cohorts and / or rely upon self - reported debt amounts (which are known to be underreported [vii] and generally inaccurate [viii]-RRB-, can lead to dramatic understatements of racial disparities in student loan debt.

Long before the Risk report, the War on Poverty saw schools as key to reducing racial and other disparities in economic opportunity.

The rate of increase has slowed in the last two years, and, as with previous reports, the data show uncomfortably wide disparities for racial and ethnic groups.

Teachers are just as negative about federal attempts to eliminate racial disparities in disciplinary practices.

The Brookings Institution has linked the overrepresentation of African American students in these programs [for - profit graduate programs] to growing racial disparities in student debt, with black graduate students being twice as likely as whites to leave school with hefty loans.

Despite the wide disparities in expulsions and suspensions across racial groups, most people oppose policies that would require schools to suspend black and Hispanic students at the same rate as other students.

As a teacher working in a racially homogenous elementary school in Atlanta, Georgia, it was not the first time that El - Amin was reminded how race - based disparities and racial stereotypes affected her students.

But civil - rights advocates have recognized that shining light on disparities of result, such as the requirement that test data be disaggregated by racial and income groups under NCLB, is an important first step to reform.

It's no secret that the American educational system today lists under the weight of some massive, seemingly intractable burdens such as poor college preparation, modest achievement results compared with other nations, high dropout rates, significant teaching and performance disparities across racial and socioeconomic backgrounds, and a deficit of graduates equipped with the necessary skills for tomorrow's workforce.

As Arne Duncan said at the time, «racial discrimination is a major problem today,» and disparities are «not caused by differences in children.»