Sentences with phrase «higher percentages of minority»

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

According to the districts and OCR, the fact that these school districts have higher percentages of minority students justifies the investigation.

She is part of a growing number who represent the highest percentage of minority women nursing their children since researchers began tracking such data.

School districts with high percentages of minority students have the highest number of ineffective teachers.

He previously showed that in comparison to white children, a higher percentage of minority children are not helped by inhaled asthma rescue medicines, called beta - agonists, used to rapidly re-open airways during asthma episodes.

This is clearly an inappropriate analytic strategy because the geographic placement of charter schools practically ensures that they will enroll higher percentages of minorities than will the average public school.

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).

In other words, the geographic placement of charter schools practically ensures that they will enroll higher percentages of minorities than will the average public school in the nation, in states, and in large metropolitan areas.

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.

White parents fled in huge numbers to the suburbs to avoid busing / integration for their children, leaving many cities with high percentages of minority communities.

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.

Wisconsin schools — including Madison's — have few minority teachers, compared to their high percentages of minority students.

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.

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.

And urban schools with high percentages of minorities badly lag their suburban counterparts.

Theme may be important too; looking at the table above, we can see that the themes with the highest percentage of minority students, character education *, college prep, and career prep, enroll 48.5 %, 43.5 %, and 43.1 % Hartford students, respectively, while the themes with the lowest percentage of minority students, early childhood *, STEM, and arts, enroll 24.8 %, 35.7 %, and 39.4 % Hartford students respectively (weighted averages based on total school enrollment).

Schools with high percentages of minority students and urban schools are harder to staff, and teachers tend to leave these schools when more attractive opportunities become available.

These conditions are more widespread in low performing schools with high percentages of minority populations (Loeb, Darling - Hammond & Luczak, 2005) and where induction programs are less common (Darling - Hammond et al., 2009).

Not exact matches

I certainly want to see a higher percentage of investments for minority - owned startups and women - founded startups.

Five of PepsiCo's 13 top officers are minorities — one of the highest percentages among large corporations.

You're misinformed... while the percentage of poverty among African - Americans is substantially higher than it is among white Americans, only a minority of African - Americans are poor.

Also, generally when statements are made like this in politics, it's an underhanded shot at minority communities with higher percentages of single parent households, or else a message with religious undertones (ie divorce is bad).

(b) Those missing from the registers form high percentages of the young, the poor, ethnic minorities and the rootless who often live in bedsitter land.

Attorney Richard Washington, student Tyler Anderson of the Debate League and Paul Nichols argued that the numbers and percentages of investigations run suspiciously and disproportionately high among minority legislators.

In California, both NME and pertussis clusters were associated with factors characteristic of high socioeconomic status such as lower population density; lower average family size; lower percentage of racial or ethnic minorities; higher percentage of high school, college, or graduate school graduates; higher median household income; and lower percentage of families in poverty.

It affects a disproportionally higher percentage of low - income, urban minority children, and is also the most common disease - related reason for children missing school.

The highest percentages of treatment occurred among publicly insured individuals and separated, divorced, and widowed persons; whereas the lowest percentages occurred among uninsured adults, racial / ethnic minorities, and men.

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 formula included weights for housing prices, minority, English - as a second language learners, children with special needs, children who are permitted free school meals, schools located in rural under - privileged areas, rusting economic areas and with high percentages of «working classes».

The letter warns that if the percentage of minorities receiving disciplinary action is disproportionately high, even when resulting from ostensibly race - neutral policies such as zero - tolerance, schools could be faulted for civil - rights violations.

Typically, urban and rural schools serving poor and minority students have the highest turnover rates, and as a result they have the highest percentages of first - year teachers, the highest percentages of teachers with fewer than five years of teaching experience, the lowest paid teachers, and the lowest percentages of accomplished teachers.

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.

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.»

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.

The higher the threshold — say, requiring a subgroup to represent at least 15 percent of the student body, as opposed to 5 or 10 percent — the lower the failure rate will be for schools with small percentages of disadvantaged minority students.

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

But once more than a certain percentage of a school is drawn from low - income, high - minority neighborhoods, this peer effect begins to dissolve and the school in general becomes more likely to decline.

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.

According to data from the Kentucky Center for Education and Workforce Statistics, high poverty, high minority schools and low performing schools employ a higher percentage of new teachers.

More than 55 % of the College Connection enrollees are minorities and a higher percentage of this population is entering ACC as compared to the general ACC District student population.

They point out that charters tend to have a higher percentage of poor and minority children than most American schools, and in a sense they are right.

This finding is particularly important given that schools with higher percentages of low - income students, lower performing schools, or schools with predominantly minority students more often report difficulty finding and keeping principals.

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.

But it's only at the end of the fourth paragraph that Toppo notes that for low - income, high - minority urban traditional schools, most comparable to charters, the college persistence rate is eight percentage points lower.

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.

Another possible explanation is that many of Hartford's suburbs also have a high percentage of racial minorities.

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.»