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.
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.
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.
Research shows that white or affluent parents often avoid schools that have
high concentrations of minority and low - income students.
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.»
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.
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.
Food deserts are often located in impoverished and in areas with
higher concentrations of minorities; though this is not always true.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
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.»
Second, the Cristo Rey Schools are Catholic
high schools located in urban areas with
high concentrations of economically disadvantaged and
minority students.
Most
of these schools and districts have two features in common: poverty and
high concentrations of racial
minorities.
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.»
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.
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
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.
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.