Sentences with phrase «majority black populations»

A review reveals that in schools with majority black populations, principals adopted suspensions for truancy and tardiness as a matter of policy, while principals at schools with fewer black students do not suspend for any attendance issues as a matter of policy.

Not exact matches

They generally do not reach the masses of working people and underprivileged families who comprise the vast majority of the black population.

The vast majority of Ghana's population — 98 % percent — are Black Africans [171][172][173] Ghana is a multiethnic country.

Kahn directed the county to draw five majority - minority districts based on the black populations alone but nonetheless urged officials «not to ignore cross-racial voter coalitions in creating» the new lines.

Logically, if efforts are made to maintain the Rangel and Serrano districts as majority black and Hispanic, respectively, the same VRA imperative pertains in the Engel district which experienced growth in its minority population.

So the city population at this point is majority black and Latino.

The district, though majority Latino, boasts a large and higher - turnout black population that helped elect Mr. Stevenson and could propel someone like Mr. Benjamin, who is also black, into office again.

The highest HPV vaccine initiation rate was among girls living in communities where the majority of the population was Hispanic (69 percent), and the lowest rates were among girls living in majority non-Hispanic white communities (50 percent) and non-Hispanic black communities (54 percent).

The southeast United States has seen the Black population become the majority in many parts.

The vast majority of the recipients are black students who left schools with student populations that were disproportionally black relative to the broader community and moved to private schools that had more white students.

One of the first schools Grant visited in Raleigh, in the historic black district, serves a student population that is majority black with one - third of children from low - income families.

Although black students made up about 3 % of the total Seattle population in the mid-1950's, nearly all black children attended schools where a majority of the population was minority.

But even if one school has a student population that is 75 percent black and 25 percent white, and the other has those percentages reversed, there is still no evidence of any form of discrimination if the school with the majority black students has a higher overall discipline rate.

While KIPP serves a majority of black students, Hiawatha's student population — spread out at the elementary and middle school levels, with a new high school set to open in the fall of 2018 — is mostly Hispanic (89 percent of students).

While black and brown students make up a smaller fraction of the total student population, they account for a large majority of the students being suspended and expelled.

Black male teachers are low in number, as the majority of the teaching population is female and white; however, the presence of Black male teachers is beneficial for students of color and white students alike.

American can no longer afford economically, much less, morally, to have one out of every two black, Latino, and American Indian children struggling with literacy — especially when minorities make up the majority of enrollment in the southern and western states of the union (and large portions of school populations in the rest of the nation).

The only BASIS school in this report that enrolled significantly more students of color than the surrounding district was BASIS Chandler, and in this case it was because the majority of students were Asian; there were very few Black and Hispanic students in that population.

However at a way lower population percentage blacks commit the majority of violent crimes / murders / assaults / etc..

Majority black in population, the city has a historically rooted African American community.