Not exact matches
Black survivors of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High
School in Parkland, Florida, say that the gun control debate that has been raging since the tragedy has largely overlooked them — and argue that recent moves to increase school safety by increasing security would actually put them more at
School in Parkland, Florida, say that the gun control debate that has been raging since the tragedy has
largely overlooked them — and argue that recent moves to increase
school safety by increasing security would actually put them more at
school safety by increasing security would actually put them more at risk.
«The Plantation» is how some Colorado players refer to the
school's athletics facility, because that's where
largely black football and basketball teams make the money that supports
largely white non-revenue teams.
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.
An at - large voting system for electing members to the East Ramapo
school board — long dominated by Orthodox Jews whose children attend private yeshivas — has prevented public
school parents who are
largely black and Latino from electing candidates of their choice, according to a lawsuit filed by NYCLU.
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.
Most of the seven hundred or so children who attend this K - 12 institution located in a tough neighborhood in Northeast Washington enter scoring well below their grade level in reading and math; the
school is overwhelmingly
black and
largely poor or working - class.
Even as
school systems redrew their boundaries, fired
black teachers and principals, and tore up foundational enrollment structures to comply with desegregation orders, they
largely ignored Coleman's earlier research on motivation and academic achievement, which found that competition «has a magic ability to create a strong group goal.»
The final plan is based
largely on a proposal aired in February by John A. Murphy, the superintendent of
schools, but contains several revisions designed to ease the fears of some
black parents and activists that the plan would...
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.
Concerned about the absence of
black and Latino students in the field of computer science, Margolis launched a three - year study of students» computing experiences at three high
schools in Los Angeles — one with a predominately African - American student population, one with a
largely Latino student body, and a third with a significant percentage of white students from wealthy families.
Parents, initially skeptical about
school reform efforts, or accustomed to thinking of them as concessions aimed
largely at luring parochial and private
school students back into a low - income,
black - majority system, flocked to the new
schools, even lining up in pre-dawn hours to assure a child's admission.
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.
As one of the founding members of the Association of
Black Psychologists, the group
largely responsible for minimizing the use of IQ tests in
schools, I continue to find the testing debate fascinating, even though it has taken several politically irresponsible turns of late.
The real inner workings of
schools, from teacher morale to academic culture to student safety, remain
largely a
black box for parents.
One paper that Fryer and Levitt wrote suggested that the gap in early test scores between
black and white schoolchildren is
largely caused by the fact that most
black children attend worse
schools.
The nation's
schools had become more racially integrated, certainly, but were still profoundly segregated: Poor kids,
black and white alike, found themselves clustered in
largely poor
schools.
The most - fervent criticism
largely deals with the
school discipline data, which has shown that
black students account for 46 percent of students suspended more than once even though they account for 18 percent of enrollment.
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.
Black families
largely support charters and
school choice.
The state's public
school system remains
largely segregated and
black students continue to fare worse economically and academically than white students.
Despite evidence that primarily
black and Hispanic students are underperforming in comparison with white students —
largely due to the unequal, segregated
schools they attend — efforts to support the reintegration of public
schools have been thwarted.
Surely professor Orfield knows that New Jersey charter
schools cluster in communities that are
largely Black and Hispanic.
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.
At a celebration in February for Teach for America's 20th anniversary, Education Secretary Arne Duncan sang the praises of an all - male,
largely black charter
school in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago, Urban Prep Academy, which replaced a high
school deemed a failure.
(Though the New Orleans
schools are
largely not - for - profit, the charter shift there, which began after Hurricane Katrina, was perceived as having been made behind the backs — and at the expense — of predominantly
black, veteran teachers.)
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.
The study's authors — a group of academics in favor of more robust
school integration policies — came away impressed with the state's information campaigns in the
largely black neighborhoods of north Minneapolis.
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.