Sentences with phrase «high minority concentrations»

HomeReady ™ is limited to certain low - income census tracts; and areas with high minority concentrations.

HomeReady ™ is limited to certain low - income census tracts; and areas with high minority concentrations.

HomeReady ™ is only available in low - income census tracts, to low - income borrowers, in areas of high minority concentration, and in regions declared a disaster area.

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A Minority Business Enterprise and member of the Northern Ohio Minority Business Council, New Horizons currently serves customers across the country with its highest concentration in the Midwest.

Populated areas tend to have a higher concentration of minorities — who overwhelmingly vote Democrat — and often have large universities, where Democrats also hold a commanding majority.

Given the fact that nearly 90 % of ethnic minorities vote Labour and the highest concentration of them live in London it gives that particular interest a huge sway in selections.

During the years of his administration, the School contained the highest concentration of women and minorities of all the Harvard University faculties.

This comparison is likely to generate misleading conclusions for one simple reason, as the authors themselves point out on the first page of the executive summary and then again on page 57 of the full report: «the concentration of charter schools in urban areas skews the charter school enrollment towards having higher percentages of poor and minority students.»

It is puzzling, then, that a coalition of prominent civil rights organizations last week issued a statement criticizing the Obama administration's current emphasis on chartering as a strategy to turn around low - performing schools and bemoaning the heavy concentration of charters in high - minority areas.

Yet the Civil Rights Project (CRP) sees only a geographic concentration «that skews the charter school enrollment toward having higher percentages of poor and minority students.»

Both proponents and critics have noted that charter schools are over-represented in communities with high concentrations of minorities, yet this fact alone does not explain the higher levels of support in areas with a charter school.

Second, the Cristo Rey Schools are Catholic high schools located in urban areas with high concentrations of economically disadvantaged and minority students.

Research shows that white or affluent parents often avoid schools that have high concentrations of minority and low - income students.

Most of these schools and districts have two features in common: poverty and high concentrations of racial minorities.

But a drive to South Seattle or parts of Eastern Washington shows we already have schools with higher concentrations of minority and low - income students.

Compared to neighboring district schools, KIPP middle schools have student bodies characterized by higher concentrations of poverty and racial minorities, but lower concentrations of special education and limited English proficiency students.

One study of 83 school districts found that «the districts with the fewest applicants were those with the most challenging working conditions, higher concentrations of poor and minority students, and lower salaries for principals.»

This chart shows that 38 percent or fewer of the 2013 high school graduates from the bottom quarter of low - income high schools with high concentrations of minorities went to college in the fall of 2013.

On average, low - income urban high schools with high concentrations of minority students sent about half, or 51 percent, of their 2013 graduates to college in the fall immediately following graduation.

Minorities frequently serve as teacher aides, office workers, volunteers, and translators at schools with a high concentration of minority students.

Rotberg cites studies showing, «In some communities, charter schools have a higher concentration of minority students than traditional public schools,» while «In others, charter schools serve as a vehicle for «white flight.»

At the same time, a dozen states (including those with high concentrations of Latino students like Arizona and Texas) report that a majority of Latino charter students attend intensely segregated minority schools.

As noted in the 2015 Texas Equity Plan, «schools with high concentrations of minority students and students living in poverty have higher percentages of inexperienced teachers than schools with low concentrations of those students.

t Montclair High School, my kids were struck by the heavy concentration of minority kids in the less challenging classes, too often in the basement.»

In district - level analysis, the Education Trust finds that nationally districts serving high concentrations of low - income students receive on average $ 1,200 less in state and local funding than districts that serve low concentrations of low - income students, and that gap widens to $ 2,000 when comparing high - minority and low - minority districts.17 These findings are further reflected by national funding equity measures reported by Education Week, which indicate that wealthy school districts spend more per student than poorer school districts do on average.18

This sets Minneapolis apart from other cities with high concentrations of minority and low - income students.

Do we need annual testing to tell us that communities with high concentrations of minority students from impoverished households struggle on test based measures?

This left some districts — Edgewood and San Antonio ISDs, for example — with high concentrations of minority students and low property values, Drennon said.

Under the conditions of high concentration of ownership and weak legal protection for small - and medium - sized shareholders in China, the distribution of dividends can be used as a way to limit large shareholders» ability to expropriate minority shareholders» rights or improper government intervention in the listed companies.

Food deserts are often located in impoverished and in areas with higher concentrations of minorities; though this is not always true.

Several areas showed proportions of visible minority communities as high as 90 per cent, with concentrations of people who identified as Chinese, for example, in places such as Scarborough's Agincourt neighbourhood and the city of Markham.

REALTOR ® Associations with well - planned diversity programs create a stronger of community, particularly in neighborhoods with high concentrations of foreign - born and minority residents who are moving up the socioeconomic ladder and are buying homes.