Sentences with phrase «income youth of color»

Strengthening school districts — Launched in 2009, the Irvine - funded California Linked Learning District Initiative was implemented over seven years within nine California school districts that, together, served 14 percent of the state's public high school students (including a high percentage of low - income youth of color, within rural and urban geographies).

Not exact matches

Taking steps to address the growing income divide in our state, including targeted policies that address the disproportionate impact on people of color, especially African Americans and Latinos, as well as LGBTQ people, women and youth.

Most compelling is the potential these hearings have to illuminate the unique circumstances of GLBT youth who often remain invisible and silenced in these conversations and who are multiply marginalized — those from lower - income backgrounds and youth of color — given the commission's call for youth from diverse backgrounds to participate.

These youth are disproportionately students of color (particularly African American males), students from low - income backgrounds, and students with disabilities.

The SIG will foster research that examines the ways in which organizing efforts affect school improvement and youth development, particularly in low - income communities and communities of color.

The impact is greater in schools that serve low - income youth, particularly students of color, whose education these laws and policies were supposedly designed to improve.

««By teaching to the test, we are depriving a generation of youth, particularly youth of color growing up in low - income communities, from developing the critical thinking skills they need, and our country needs, to be competitive in this global economy,» added Matt Cregor, Assistant Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund.

The most recent 2016 report shows that chronic absence affects 7.3 % of California elementary school students, with disproportionately high rates of absenteeism and suspensions for youth of color, as well as low - income, homeless, foster and special education students.

We expose opportunity and achievement gaps that separate students of color and low - income students from other youth, and we identify and advocate for the strategies that will forever close those gaps.

ETW's mission is therefore to expose the opportunity and achievement gaps that separate students of color and low - income students from other youth, and identify and advocate for the strategies that will forever close those gaps.

The nonprofit National Center for Fair and Open Testing, known as FairTest, which fights the misuse of government - mandated standardized tests, says on its website that the average student takes 112 tests between kindergarten and 12th grade and that the assessments «are frequently used in ways that do not reflect the abilities of students of color, English language learners, children with disabilities, and low - income youth.»

Harsh punishments are disproportionately used on children of color, low - income children, children with disabilities, and LGBT youth.

Libraries will be selected to include a representative sample of the United States, including geographical diversity as well as programs that focus on girls, youth of color and those from lower income communities.

With programs like Divvy for Everyone, Indego's equity program, BIKETOWN for All, Citi Bike for Youth, and many more, the people in this room are making sure that bike share is reaching lower income residents, people of color, women and others who have been historically underserved by transportation options.

Youth Together's Kids Count campaign met with the education advisor to California Governor Brown and the state board of education executive director about school funding inequities by race — a key factor linked to low - income students of color being pushed out of schools.