Sentences with phrase «disproportionately high percentage of»

The pressing need to explore justice reinvestment in Victorian is largely driven by prison overcrowding (prisoner numbers up 42 % since 2004), disproportionately high percentage of Aboriginal people making up the youth justice and adult prison populations, record high re-offending rates of prisoners at 40 %, and the rocketing expenditure (over $ 1 billion last year).

I suspect that a disproportionately high percentage of SlawTips readers, being so unusually sophisticated, informed, curious (and unabashedly good looking), will fall into the first camp — legal - information junkies who can't imagine the world after the Black Monday ahead...

As a result of our open - admission policy, we receive a disproportionately high percentage of animals that are not immediately adoptable.

The military high schools, JROTC, and Cadet programs enroll a disproportionately high percentage of students of color, reflecting the broader strategy to recruit African American and Latino males from low - income areas for first - responder positions in U.S. wars abroad.

Plaintiffs» lawyers in the Reed lawsuit had argued that the disproportionately high percentage of layoffs at the middle schools — 70 percent of teachers at one school — violated students» constitutional right to an equal opportunity for an education.

CPS, in fact, has a disproportionately high percentage of students categorized as learning disabled, and African - American students are more likely to be placed in special education than any other racial or ethnic group, state data show.

I have heard that we comprise a disproportionately high percentage of the troops for our population.

Because of sky - high property taxes on top of state and federal income taxes, many Nassau County residents pay disproportionately high percentages of their income in taxes every year.

Compared with the United States cancer populations, trials of lymphoma, CLL, CML, and myeloma enrolled a disproportionately higher percentage of patients younger than 65 years.

We find that schools and teachers that are integral to connecting preparation programs are atypical, with disproportionately high percentages of Hispanic teachers and students compared to the state averages.

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Attorney Richard Washington, student Tyler Anderson of the Debate League and Paul Nichols argued that the numbers and percentages of investigations run suspiciously and disproportionately high among minority legislators.

The letter warns that if the percentage of minorities receiving disciplinary action is disproportionately high, even when resulting from ostensibly race - neutral policies such as zero - tolerance, schools could be faulted for civil - rights violations.

While the rising percentage of high school graduates described by Murnane occurred at the peak of the testing and accountability movement, it is clear that high stakes accountability disproportionately affects those students in need of the most support.

The problem with this is that such are an unduly high percentage of the population of many states with only one or two representatives in Congress: thus their voices are disproportionately affective on the formulation of policy.