Sentences with phrase «facing ethnic minority students»

The Minority Affairs Conference addresses the challenges facing ethnic minority students and educators in Tennessee, including the need for adequate funding for schools serving minority and disadvantaged students.

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In countries in the South, faced with the alliance between international capital, the comprador bourgeoisie and part of the middle class, the alternative consisted in using joint programmes and actions to bring together the different grass - roots groups such as workers, peasants, the informal sector, movements of the urban poor, co-operatives, minority ethnic groups, and also the vulnerable middle classes, students, etc..

Ms Turnely continued: «In the face of the government's campaign to broaden access to universities, elite public schools have actually increased the number of pupils they send to Oxbridge over the last five years, whilst ethnic minority students are twice as likely to attend modern universities than traditional universities.»

But the research clearly shows a correlation between school disciplinary policies and dropout rates and that students of ethnic and racial minority status, and for whom English is a second language, tend to be more likely to face disciplinary actions.

Many candidates start the conversation with, «Well, the first school must be a Title I school,» or «I understand that the first school has many second language students and ethnic minorities; it must face extraordinary challenges.»