Sentences with phrase «black charter school»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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