Sentences with phrase «for racial composition»

Real estate professionals use schools as «a proxy for the racial composition of a neighborhood,» accuses the NFHA, which found that some practitioners told white buyers that schools located in interracial neighborhoods were «bad.»

In 1978, it found that the plan had brought all of Louisville's schools within its» «guidelines» for racial composition» for «at least a substantial portion of the [previous] three years.»

Not exact matches

The reasons for the differences in maternity care practices by racial composition of the areas are not clear.

All facilities, regardless of the racial / ethnic composition of the populations they serve, can support the breastfeeding decisions of their patients by implementing evidence - based policies and practices shown to be critical for establishing breastfeeding, so that more infants are able to reap the numerous health benefits of breastfeeding.

Prevalence of facilities meeting indicators for recommended maternity care practices, * by racial composition † of the zip code areas where the facilities were located — Maternity Practices in Infant Nutrition and Care Survey (mPINC), United States, 2011

«Government can create opportunities for job creation and workforce participation, but can not mandate results, especially by ethnic or racial composition,» an Empire State Development spokesman said.

Last month, for example, the Supreme Court upheld a verdict that two North Carolina districts were drawn with racial composition in mind (see «Battleground state»).

In fact, there have been relatively few studies on the racial and ethnic composition of populations that apply for federal research funding.

«White parents may be avoiding school districts where black and Latino children live because they use racial composition as a proxy for quality of a school and a neighborhood,» she said.

I also control for the characteristics of the school, including total enrollment, pupil - to - teacher ratio, racial composition, percentage of students eligible for free lunch, and percentage of returning students.

In a 2014 study, Stephen Billings and his colleagues used administrative data and variation in school assignments for students who lived on opposite sides of new catchment area boundaries in Charlotte - Mecklenburg, North Carolina, following the district's release from court supervision to identify the effects of changes in racial composition and school resources.

But in a new article for Education Next, «Desegregation Since the Coleman Report: Racial composition of schools and student learning,» Steven Rivkin of the University of Illinois at Chicago identifies a key trend masquerading as resegregation: the decreasing enrollment share of white students due to the increasing ethnic diversity of public schools.

To ascertain whether this is the case, I draw on the best available public data on the racial composition of the nation's schools: the Public Elementary and Secondary School Enrollment and Common Core of Data issued by the Office for Civil Rights within the U.S. Department of Education.

When we controlled for factors such as school racial composition, grades served, and religiosity, the coefficient on tuition became insignificant in Louisiana, but remained highly significant for the enrollment measure.

For an embargoed copy of «Desegregation Since the Coleman Report: Racial composition of schools and student learning» or to speak to the author, contact Jackie Kerstetter at [email protected].

Regarding the second question, Coleman reported that families were more important for learning than were school resources, and, further, that school resources varied more by region than they did by a school's racial composition within any specific region.

The analysis also incorporates data from the National Center for Education Statistics on the racial / ethnic composition of each school, the percentage of students eligible for free or reduced - price lunch (an indicator of family poverty), the average number of students in each grade (a measure of school size), and the school's pupil - teacher ratio (an measure of class size) in the 2007 - 08 school year.

In practice it is unlikely that an assessment system will have access to data on student backgrounds beyond what is routinely collected by school systems: the percentage of students with limited English proficiency, the percentage eligible for free and reduced - price lunch, and the ethnic and racial composition of the student population.

For this benchmark, we use the racial composition of the larger metropolitan or micropolitan area, the Core Based Statistical Area (CBSA) as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau, in which the school is located.

Data on private school enrollment and racial composition come from the Private School Universe Survey (PSS), a biennial survey conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).

Among the subset of students for whom data are available, we find that transfers made possible by the school - choice program overwhelmingly improve integration in the public schools that students leave (the sending schools), bringing the racial composition of the schools closer to that of the broader communities in which they are located.

2002); Brief for Armor et al. as Amici Curiae, with Rosen, Perhaps Not All Affirmative Action is Created Equal, N. Y. Times, June 11, 2006 (quoting David Armor as commenting»» [w] e did find the [racial] achievement gap changing significantly»» and acknowledging that he» «did find a modest association for math but not reading in terms of racial composition and achievement, but there's a big state variation»» (emphasis added)-RRB-.

Family, Neighborhood, and School Settings Across Seasons: When Do Socioeconomic Context and Racial Composition Matter for the Reading Achievement Growth of Young Children?

For the 2001 - 2002 school year, the deviation permitted from the desired racial composition was increased from 10 to 15 percent.

For instance, the racial composition of the school age population of the entirety of New York City has little relevance to concerns about and efforts to improve the racial balance of schools on Staten Island, which by virtue of its geography might as well be a part of New Jersey.

As I indicated previously, there is a lot of evidence that racial / ethnic groups prefer to live in areas in which their own group predominates, and that racial composition is very important when families search for schools.

Some school districts have opted out of interdistrict choice for fear of attracting students who would alter their schools» racial or class composition in ways that would upset district residents.

In its previous iterations, SB 337 would have established several other policies for public charter schools that have spurred significant debate, including the absence of a requirement for criminal background checks of employees and the elimination of the current under - enforced requirement that charter schools «reasonably reflect the racial and ethnic composition» in the area in which the school is located.

For example, schools can draw attendance zones based on the racial composition of particular neighborhoods because students in those neighborhoods would be treated the same regardless of race.

It includes measures of academic achievement and achievement gaps for school districts and counties, as well as district - level measures of racial and socioeconomic composition, racial and socioeconomic segregation patterns, and other features of the schooling system.

The states differ significantly in the racial or ethnic composition of students and in the characteristics of the families of students, so it would be expected that a significant part of the differences in the NAEP test scores might be accounted for by these differences.

I sent my kids to the schools I believed would be best for them, with no thought to racial composition.

Racial composition of the neighborhood where an applicant wants to buy, refinance or improve a house they are borrowing money for

What if there were a site that — for every U.S. public school district — tracked data on desegregation cases and linked it to trends in racial composition from 1968 - 2000?

As the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit observed, the defendant would have to investigate, over a number of cases, the race of persons tried in the particular jurisdiction, the racial composition of the venire and petit jury, and the manner in which both parties exercised their peremptory challenges.

Evidence of differing levels of supply, depending on the racial and ethnic composition of a neighborhood, may not be purely a function of different communities» demand or need for quality child care.

Thus, the court ruled that there was no duty, either fiduciary or contractual, for the Buyer's Representative to inform the Buyers about the racial composition of certain communities.

With just a click of the mouse, the racial and ethnic composition of a school is unveiled, and the sites feature a color - coded system for the school rating: green, yellow, and red.

The advocacy group National Fair Housing Alliance found in a 2006 report that discussing school quality was becoming a proxy for discussing the racial or ethnic composition of a neighborhood.