Sentences with phrase «black charter»

In each case, a reasonable conclusion is that the average charter student left a heavily black traditional public school for a heavily black charter school.

When black people say, «I don't like education reform,» they don't mean individual black charter leaders are bad.

Seventy percent of black charter school students attend schools that are intensely segregated — schools in which 90 to 100 percent of the students are black or Latino.

Forget about its slow opening segment, in which Jack Black charters a boat to mysterious Skull Island, and its predictable final segment, in which the captive Kong goes ape - you - know - what on New York's Chrysler Building.

[T] he average black charter student outscored the average black traditional school student by an average of 18 points over the last four years of publicly available data.

At a celebration in February for Teach for America's 20th anniversary, Education Secretary Arne Duncan sang the praises of an all - male, largely black charter school in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago, Urban Prep Academy, which replaced a high school deemed a failure.

Another confusing element of KIPP's performance metrics was highlighted in a letter — issued March 16 during both the charter expansion and the disparate suspension controversies — which said KIPP had made a clerical error and did not have the nation's third - highest suspension rate (71 percent) for black charter school students in 2011 - 2012.

More than 500 charter schools suspended Black charter students at a rate that was at least 10 percentage points higher than the rate for White charter students.

The typical black charter - school student attends a campus where nearly three in four students also are black, researchers with the Civil Rights Project at UCLA said Thursday.

At the national level, seventy percent of black charter school students attend intensely segregated minority charter schools (which enroll 90 - 100 % of students from under - represented minority backgrounds), or twice as many as the share of intensely segregated black students in traditional public schools.

Forty - three percent of black charter school students attended these extremely segregated minority schools, a percentage which was, by far, the highest of any other racial group, and nearly three times as high as black students in traditional public schools.

I don't know enough about the decision - making process on NAACP's charter resolution to say how much politics or misinformation were at play, but black charter school parents from across the country drove and flew to Cincinnati only to feel shut out of the process and upset that an organization they respect has disregarded their interests.

For example, a 2010 report by UCLA's Civil Rights Project found that black charter school students were twice as likely to attend schools that enrolled fewer than 10 percent non-minority students as their counterparts in traditional public schools.

They find it «astonishing» that 43 percent of black charter - school students attend schools where 99 to 100 percent of students are minorities (compared to 15 percent of black students at traditional public schools where that is the case).

I allowed myself to believe that the NAACP might have gotten the message from all these black moms and dads and kids enrolled — or yearning to be enrolled — in charter schools across America... not to mention the black advocates and the black charter educators out there.

In Washington, D.C., for instance, private schools proliferate in the white, wealthier areas of the city and majority - black charter schools are situated in the black, poorer neighborhoods (see figures 1 and 2).

On what planet does it make sense for the NAACP to tell a black charter school leader like Christopher Goins, whose black students average 19.5 on the ACT, to stop serving students when the national average for ACT scores among Black students is 17?

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According to research released in 2010 by professor Gary Orfield of the Civil Rights Project at the University of California, Los Angeles, 70 percent of black charter school students attend a school where the bulk of their peers are also minorities — compared to 40 percent in traditional public schools.

According to a report he plans to release Friday, from 2010 - 2011 almost 90 percent of black charter - school students in the Twin Cities are in segregated schools — a number that actually increased by 8 percentage points over the last decade.

Nationally, 70 % of black charter students attend schools where at least 90 % of students are minorities.