Sentences with phrase «high percentages of minority students in»

For example, charter public schools in Colorado have outperformed other public schools in nearly every area while serving high percentages of minority students in traditionally urban areas.

In the past few years, charter public schools in Colorado have outperformed comparable public schools in nearly every area, while serving high percentages of minority students in urban areas.

Not exact matches

We chose three urban districts with high percentages of minority and low - income students (at least 60 percent on both counts) in each region (Northeast, Midwest, South, West).

Despite serving a substantially greater proportion of students from low - income families and minorities than district schools, a higher percentage of CMU schools (86 percent) made AYP in 2010 - 11 than did public schools statewide (79 percent).

Moreover, this «diversity - gap» between students and teachers tends to be wider in areas where percentages of minority students are higher.

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.»

The school characteristics include whether it is in an urban area, grade level (e.g., high school), the number of students enrolled, student - teacher ratio, the percentage of students who are eligible for the free or reduced - price lunch program, the percentage of minority students, and measures of student achievement in reading and math.

Approximately 95 percent of CSGF's member schools enable students to outperform comparable district schools in both math and reading; nearly 70 percent of schools enable their students to outperform state averages in both math and reading, although they serve much higher than average percentages of low - income and minority students.

And more than one - third of the studentsare minorities — the highest percentage of such students onany campus in the state.

Uncertified teachers, teaching fellows, and TFA corps members all tend to teach in schools that, relative to those employing more certified teachers, have a higher percentage of minority students; more low - income, ESL, and special - education students; and students with lower achievement levels.

In fact, compared to district schools nationally, charter schools enroll a higher percentage of low - income and minority students.

These five schools were located in neighborhoods with some of the highest retention rates in the city (after the promotion policy took effect), and they had large percentages of minority and poor students.

Over the last several years, charter public schools in Colorado have outperformed comparable public schools in nearly every area, while serving high percentages of minority students.

The data, part of the benchmark test known as the National Assessment of Educational Progress, show that New York City fourth graders have made progress in closing the gap between their scores and the state and national results in reading, despite the higher percentages of poor and minority students in the city.

Since 1989, increasingly higher shares of black students in Northern Virginia enrolled in predominantly minority and intensely segregated schools, though at much lower percentages than in other metros in the state.

This discovery was highlighted in a StudentsFirstNY report released last month that examined the distribution of teacher quality across NYC and found that students in schools with high poverty or percentages of minority students were more likely to have teachers rated «Unsatisfactory.»

This makes the new goal set by the major charter school networks, to grade themselves on the percentage of their students who go on to earn four - year college degrees in six years, all the more radical — especially given the fact that these networks educate low - income, minority students, whose college graduation rates pale in comparison to their more affluent white peers — a mere 9 percent earning degrees within six years, compared with 77 percent of students from high - income families as of 2015.

Higher percentages of charter school students of every race attend predominantly minority schools (50 - 100 % minority students) or racially isolated minority schools (90 - 100 % minority students) than do their same - race peers in traditional public 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.

In some states, charter schools serve significantly higher percentages of minority or low — income students than the traditional public schools.

The state leads the nation in the percentage of students graduating from high school, and in high school graduation rates among minority students.

More than 1.2 million students in the United States and Canada drop out of high school each year (with the percentages skewed toward males, low - income and minority students).

Social relations between students in interracial schools may affect minority students» academic achievement or later occupational success (Schofield, 1991), meaning they could have jobs where there are a higher percentage of whites or have a job that pays more than.