Sentences with phrase «by race and income»

Congress approves Public Housing reforms to reduce segregation by race and income, encourage and reward work, bring more working families into public housing, and increase the availability of subsidized housing for very poor families.

Yet the United States and Nebraska continue to have significant gaps in educational achievement by race and income.

These numbers — which illustrate sharp educational disparities by race and income and the closing of the doors of educational opportunity for millions of youngsters — should be cause for alarm.

In Michigan, and across the country, school districts are becoming more segregated — both by race and income.

U.S. schools have become more segregated since 1990, and students in major metropolitan areas have been most severely divided by race and income, according to the University of California at Los Angeles's Civil Rights Project.

The odds are greater that it will, but too many problems stand in the way: the opposition to «all things Obama,» a spending freeze on the part of Republicans, the consternation among civil rights groups fearful that Congress will remove things like annual testing and reporting results by race and income, or the disagreement among conservatives about what the conservative thing to do is.

Much like disaggregating test score data by race and income in the early 2000s revealed inequities in what were generally considered to be good school systems, breaking apart graduation rates by school district shows that even high - performing states have pockets of failure.

They wring their hands about having some of the most segregated public schools in the country — both by race and income — then keep quiet about neighborhood unzoned schools, where middle - class parents send their children in order to avoid failing public schools.

But the report found that Southern states must deal with historic inequities in education — student performance varies widely by race and income — that hold back many parts of the region.

Would require states to give mathematics and reading tests to all students in grades 3 - 8 who attend schools receiving federal Title I aid and to publish annual school - by - school report cards with student performance broken down by race and income.

The waivers have allowed states to set race - and income - based goals, that is, to lower expectations for student achievement by race and income.

If school choice policies are shaped differently and coupled with strong civil rights policies, it «could give D.C. families a choice that has never been present in most of the city — strong schools, well - integrated by race and income, where students... learn skills essential to living and working... [in a] multiracial city,» the Civil Rights Project notes.

They agreed that states would be required to «disaggregate» test scores by race and income, so that schools and districts could be judged on the performance of individual groups.

While many of the nation's public schools remain stubbornly segregated by race and income, some charter schools and districts are starting to experiment with using weighted lotteries to increase diversity.

Segregation by race and income continues to menace our public schools, as does inequitable allocation of resources.

Teachers may be encouraging all students to continue their education beyond high school, but the message may be heard differently by male and female students, and moderated by race and income.

Washington, however, is a city starkly divided by race and income, which prevents Haynes from achieving significant diversity.

A report examining whether students are using the school choice mandates of the No Child Left Behind Act highlights these districts, where it says choice is helping to integrate schools by race and income.

Charters ranging from the Denver School of Science and Technology network to the E. L. Haynes Public Charter School in Washington, D.C., intentionally draw a mix of families, by race and income.

Don't settle for knowing that many, too many, schools remain separated by race and income.

Not exact matches

For all of the dynamism and strength of the US economy, it has come to be characterized most fundamentally by enormous disparities in wealth, income and opportunity that strongly correlate to race, ethnicity and geography.

These may have lessened the fall in Canadaâ $ ™ s corporate tax revenue losses, but not by much. Even worse, this tax shifting makes the overall net impact even more negative as any revenue gains from income shifting come at the expense of even greater revenue losses elsewhereâ $» and fuel a race to the bottom with tax cuts.

The data were weighted by age, gender, education, race, region, and income to be representative of the general population.

The achievement gap between low - income and wealthy students has grown significantly, exacerbating socioeconomic and racial tensions and heightening the sense of inequality among various underserved communities, as large achievement gaps in educational outcomes based on race and ethnicity remain, or by some accounts, even worsen.

Mean and standard errors of monthly weight gain after adjusting for maternal age; race / ethnicity; education; household income; marital status; parity; postpartum Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children program participation; prepregnancy body mass index (calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared); infant sex; gestational age; birth weight; age at solid food introduction; and sweet drinks consumption.

Breastfeeding estimates varied by race / ethnicity, mother's age and education, participation in WIC, and ratio of family income to the federal poverty threshold.

By looking within families, research takes into account factors like parental education, household income and race

«It's time we restore integrity to this office by ensuring that everyone — regardless of gender, race or income — gets treated with dignity and respect.

Today's latest poll, conducted by Ipsos MORI for STV news, addresses three of the key questions about the future of Scottish politics — the race for second place at Holyrood, the debate about whether the Scottish Parliament should be attempting its new income tax powers in the near future, and the impact that a UK -LSB-...]

Many young people of all races, classes and income levels have been misled by the medical / pharmaceutical profession and drawn into a opioid addiction that consumes their health and their futures.»

Basically, school quality varies because schools predominantly draw from quite narrow geographic areas and neighborhoods are extremely segregated by education, income, race and other demographic factors, by design.

Elizabeth Warren and Eric Schneiderman, who called for stricter regulation and prosecution of of executives involved in the housing bubble; Bill de Blasio, who won a mayor's race by attacking income inequality and promising to raise taxes on the wealthy to fund social programs.

Income segregation among black and Latino families is now much higher than among white families, which means that low - income communities of color suffer more than ever from a double segregation by race and Income segregation among black and Latino families is now much higher than among white families, which means that low - income communities of color suffer more than ever from a double segregation by race and income communities of color suffer more than ever from a double segregation by race and class.

With higher rents for higher - income residents, these projects will be self - sustaining and contribute to desegregating New York's metropolitan areas, which are among the most segregated cities in the nation by race and class,» Hawkins said.

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn is currently leading the pack in the mayor's race, bolstered by support from higher income wage earners and people from Manhattan, her home borough.

«I think this kind of race is really door to door, building by building, block by block organizing, and I think particularly in the case of a relatively low income district, you need good, old - fashioned organizing.

Towne and colleagues also found that race and ethnicity, education level and income affected prevalence rates: People with lower income or lower educational levels had a higher prevalence of diabetes, and the diabetes rates were highest among American Indians or Alaska Natives, followed by African Americans and Hispanics.

Equally surprising is that the disparity is driven not so much by income or race — long thought to be the greatest factors — but by behaviors such as inactivity and metabolic conditions such as diabetes (set of three graphs).

Undergraduate enrollment among low - income Native American, African - American, and Hispanic males is less than their race's females by 27 %, 18 %, and 7 %, respectively.

The research team, which was also led by Dr. Kirsten Beyer of the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, adjusted the results to make sure they weren't confounded by race, age, income level, education, marital status, employment and other factors.

This allowed them to detect subtle differences in health status and behaviors, and to analyze these differences further by income and race / ethnicity.

«U.S. women's awareness of breast density varies by race, ethnicity, education and income.»

Television watching, for example, turns out to be a better predictor of bad eating habits than does parental weight, race and income, and a child's gender and ethnicity — together — according to a study by Harrison and her team.

The smaller sample was drawn from the Southwest Baltimore site of the Exploring Health Disparities in Integrated Communities (EHDIC) study, an ongoing study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions of race disparities within communities where approximately equal numbers of both African Americans and non-Hispanic whites live and where median incomes are similar.

Future studies are needed to examine sodium trends by race / ethnicity and income to identify vulnerable subpopulations that further interventions should target,» the article concludes.

The predicted 10 - year risks of developing CVD varied significantly by age, gender, race - ethnicity, educational attainment, household income, and state of residence.

«A more nuanced interpretation includes the proposition that access to top - level income is influenced by historic patterns of race and class inequality.»

Gender, specific age, race and income did not influence the association; the study found that all demographic groups were equally affected by the link between social media and eating and body image concerns, indicating that preventative messages should target a broad population.

They sliced the data by income, race, insurance status and other factors and found that unmarried cancer patients are suffering from higher death rates than their married counterparts.

Although we addressed this issue in several ways, including the use of a natural experimental design exploiting the quasi-randomized assignment of patients to hospitalists, it is still possible that unmeasured confounding (eg, residual differences in socioeconomic status of patients that are not explained by patient race / ethnicity, Medicaid eligibility, and household income level) could explain the observed differences in patient outcomes.