Sentences with phrase «disproportionate rates»

Yet while numerous studies described the problem of disproportionate rates of suspensions, only a handful examined potential solutions.

According to the waiver request, different groups of students opt out of testing at disproportionate rates.

The study also found that even accounting for crime patterns in the city's various neighborhoods, officers stopped minorities at disproportionate rates.

• Change the Record is a coalition of leading Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, human rights, legal and community organisations calling for urgent and coordinated national action to close the gap in imprisonment rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and cut disproportionate rates of violence experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, particularly women and children.

However, Indigenous Australians continue to suffer grossly disproportionate rates of disadvantage against all measures of socio - economic status, including health (ABS, 2013; AIHW, 2011a, 2011b).

This problem is strongly correlated with family income: 64 percent of African American 4th - graders and 60 percent of Hispanic 4th - graders (two groups that experience disproportionate rates of poverty) scored below the basic level in reading in 1998.

Health Minister Sussan Ley will chair the roundtable on disproportionate rates of suicide in the Kimberley region, with Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion, and Assistant Minister for Health Ken Wyatt also attending.

The highest white / Asian disproportionate rates were seen in the West Midlands, Thames Valley, West Mercia and South Yorkshire.

«These findings build on previous studies into disproportionate rates of diabetes prevalence and hold important clues for efforts aimed at preventing diabetes and better managing the disease,» said Jane Bolin, JD, PhD, BSN, co-researcher and director of the Southwest Rural Health Research Center at Texas A&M.

Requiring that the analysis of resource inequities summarized in the plan include disproportionate rates of teacher assignments and disparities in per - pupil expenditures.

African American students, boys especially, continue to be referred for discipline or suspended from school at alarmingly disproportionate rates.

In a statement, Congressman Bobby Scott, a Democrat from Virginia, said he believes the report «dispels claims that racially disproportionate rates of discipline are based solely on income.

It requires states to develop educator equity plans describing how low - income students and students of color «are not served at disproportionate rates by ineffective, out - of - field, or inexperienced teachers» and to evaluate and publicly report on their progress in this area.

The Blueprint For Change, released in November 2015, provided a twelve principle plan to close the gap within imprisonment rates and to cut disproportionate rates of violence experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people; particularly women and children.

Many Aboriginal communities who currently have bilingual education programs have stated that the decision of the Northern Territory Government was made without appropriate consultation or a genuine desire to address the systemic issues underlying the vastly disproportionate rate of Aboriginal students» participation in education.

One reason trans people are overrepresented in the criminal legal system is that they experience disproportionate rates of poverty and homelessness resulting from barriers to housing, education, and employment.

Rather than require that all teachers of core academic subjects be «highly qualified,» the bill simply mandates that states must ensure that all teachers and paraprofessionals working in schools receiving Title I funds meet applicable state certification and licensure requirements, and provide a description of how low - income and minority children enrolled in these schools are not served at disproportionate rates by ineffective, out - of - field, or inexperienced teachers.

This increased prominence however, has not had an impact on the state of high vulnerability still experienced by black men - as illustrated by disproportionate rates of incarceration the UK and USA.

Newly released city data shows over the past two decades African - Americans have been arrested for pot at a disproportionate rate compared to white residents, even though the two groups make up a similar percentage of the population.

He goes on to say that if the bill becomes law, anyone who feels he or she is stopped based solely on identifying features could sue and win if his or her demographic is stopped at a disproportionate rate.

The investigation revealed that the Syracuse school district was suspending black students at a disproportionate rate.

Diabetes brings a wide array of complications that can harm the cardiovascular system and other organs, and it has been found to affect some groups, such as racial and ethnic minorities and people with low incomes, at a disproportionate rate.

«Percentage of US children who have chronic health conditions on the rise: Diseases such as asthma and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder have increased at a disproportionate rate among children living in poverty, according to new research being presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies 2016 Meeting.»

While the study didn't look for dementia symptoms specifically, the authors point out that the prevalence of Alzheimer's disease is rising — and that minority communities are affected at disproportionate rates.

Interestingly, this affluent sector of the population also had a disproportionate rate of disease and illness as compared to the lower classes that only had access to unrefined, natural foods.

Under President Obama, the federal education and justice departments aggressively directed school districts to modify disciplinary policies in response to concerns that black and Latino students are punished and suspended at disproportionate rates.

Disproportionate rates should not be regarded as unjustified merely because they reflect higher rates of improper behavior by minority students than by white students.

«And there are so many issues and such a disproportionate rate of college completion, that a program like this certainly speaks to a need.»

The report, issued by the Government Accountability Office on Wednesday, is the first national governmental analysis of discipline policies since the Obama administration issued guidance in 2014 that urged schools to examine the disproportionate rates at which black students were being punished.

Minimize the disproportionate rate of counseling office referrals, suspensions and expulsions for SFUSD African American and Latino students

Further reasons for concern are that exclusionary discipline such as suspensions and expulsions are applied at a disproportionate rate by age, gender, and race.

Disproportionate rates of suspension also exist for students with disabilities.

In the last several years, urban school districts have focused considerable attention on the disproportionate rate at which these students are suspended and expelled from school.

The changes are intended, in part, to reduce the disproportionate rate at which black students are being sent out of the classroom for behavioral issues, and to make better efforts to teach students how their bad decisions affect their peers.

Because there are no more than four ineffective teachers in any one district, Utah has determined that minority and low - income children are not served at disproportionate rates.»

Because students of color are harshly disciplined and pushed out of school at disproportionate rates, RJ and the culture that promotes learning from mistakes and positive support has been a key victory for us here in Fresno.

In December 2015, Congress passed the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), [1] which requires states and districts to determine whether low - income students and students of color in Title I schools are served at disproportionate rates by ineffective, out - of - field, or inexperienced teachers, and take steps to address any identified disproportionalities (i.e., gaps in equity).