Sentences with phrase «largely black district»

Reconstruction led to political fence - mending between the North and South, spawning Jim Crow laws and institutionalizing racism in the largely black District of Columbia, once considered «a black man's paradise.»

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Upon election he immediately cast his support for Pataki's re-election over Carl McCall's candidacy, though his district is largely Democratic and Black.

Several hundred parents, largely from district schools around the city and almost exclusively black, attended the rally at Medgar Evers College in Crown Heights, where Assemblyman and future Cuomo official Karim Camara and City Councilman Robert Cornegy Jr. spoke.

Concerns stem in part from a majority of students in the district attending religious schools, while the Board of Education is largely dominated by Hasidic men making decisions for a largely black and Latino student body.

Sources suggested Mr. Seddio might run for the seat himself, or choose former Councilman Lew Fidler — who has had some well - documented health issues — to run to represent the diverse district, which covers largely black Brownsville, heavily Caribbean - American Canarsie and the predominantly Russian - Jewish enclave of Sheepshead Bay.

Take the desperate situation involving the school district in East Ramapo, where a school board dominated by Orthodox Jewish members is at odds with the parents of a student body that is largely black and Hispanic, in a situation that seemed to be crying out for some resolution at the state level.

In the second decade after the Brown decision, debate shifted from whether a black student could enter a schoolhouse to how best to bring black and white students together in school districts, particularly in light of the largely segregated housing patterns that existed in most communities.

Since 2007, the proportion of D.C. students scoring proficient or above on the rigorous and independent National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) more than doubled in fourth grade reading and more than tripled in fourth grade math, bringing Washington up to the middle of the pack of urban school districts at that grade level, while the city's black students largely closed gaps with African American students nationwide.

Even in large urban school districts, where the student body is largely minority, only about 18 percent of teachers are black and 9 percent Hispanic.

New data related to the White House report released Tuesday found that many of these large school districts poised to lose funding serve largely black or Hispanic populations.

This included firing four percent of district teachers, mostly black, and replacing them largely with TFA - style teachers, mostly white, whom one astute black Washingtonian labeled «cultural tourists.»

In 2003, just 15 percent of teachers in large urban districts across the country were black but in New Orleans, teaching was largely a job done by black women: 71 percent of teachers were black and 78 percent were women.

On cross examination, plaintiffs» attorney Marcellus McRae tried to chip away at the heft of Fraisse's testimony by having the witness concede that the districts he led were relatively small with few schools and had student populations that were largely white, with much smaller percentages of blacks and African Americans.

Though Brizard touts improvements in graduation rates and test scores among his accomplishments in his 3 1/2 years, opinion is sharply divided on whether he has made a significant difference in the performance of the district's largely low - income black and Latino students....

Yet this is a pivotal moment not just for Caputo - Pearl and Crenshaw but for a black community that has been largely absent from an education reform movement that hit a milestone last week with the passage in Sacramento of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's bill to gain more control over the school district.

It's hard to imagine public authorities closing down 50 schools largely populated by middle class Euro - Americans; but this policy was enacted in the largely black and Latino district of Chicago, and it was done in the face of strong protests by the community.