Sentences with phrase «majority minority»

The normal proportional representation system does not have majority minority districts.

That's why every community in Wisconsin has a tradition of democratically elected school boards, but the same people who support Carr don't want democracy for Milwaukee's majority minority population.

I can't imagine they are all interested in political suicide (Klein, Savino and Smith all in majority minority districts and Carlucci having a seemingly bright future in the Democratic Party).

This is generating a scandal in Portugal, the argument being that the rights of minorities should not be referendable, exactly to avoid the Tyranny of the majority

(Personal anecdote: as a teacher for over 28 years — almost exclusively in majority minority schools, including stints in Harlem and South Los Angeles — I have never seen a teacher or administrator act in a prejudicial way toward any minority kid.)

By mandating that redistricters had to include majority minority districts where possible, the system encouraged districts that African - American candidates could win.

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Majority minority districts were a reaction to states spreading out their African - American voters so that there were always more white voters in their voting districts.

Women are starting businesses at twice the rate of men, and in 25 years, the U.S. will be a «majority minority» country.

Already, 13 of the largest 40 U.S. metro areas are majority minority.

One in seven of those people stayed in a majority minority neighborhood like Harlem.

One of the election reforms created something called a majority minority district.

«This idea that somehow because you create a majority minority district, the majority will turn out, is not always the case,» he said.

The district is majority minority, with sizable populations of Hispanics, Asians and people from the Indian subcontinent.

Florida has a «majority minority» mix of students, with non-Hispanic white students making up 48.3 percent of the total, African Americans about 24 percent, and Hispanics 25 percent.

That these schools and their magnet programs tend to have a racial composition closer to that of the neighborhood — majority minority — only reduces their attractiveness to whites.

As the minority K — 12 student population continues to grow into the majority in the United States, it stands to reason that the student population at colleges and universities will also soon become, says University of Pennsylvania Professor Marybeth Gasman, «majority minority.»

However, the city's student population — majority minority and mostly eligible for lunch subsidies — is typical of other urban centers where school reform is growing.

In fact you don't spot a majority minority student population state until Texas pulls in at # 19.

Did I mention before that Arizona charter schools are majority minority?

Arizona charter schools educate a majority minority student body, both overall and specifically in 2017's 8th grade class.

Our research team took a closer look at the enrollment data and found something that some may find surprising: Arizona public charter schools serve a «majority minority» student population.

Arizona public charter schools serve a «majority minority» student population.

The 2014 Representative Assembly (RA) voted to pass MCEA's plan «to recruit and hire a majority minority co-hort of educators for the next school year» that mirrored the county's «diverse majority minority population.»

It's worth noting that Arizona's charter schools serve a» majority minority» student population, with non-white students comprising 55 percent of those enrolled in charters.

The public schools of the city do a fine job serving their majority minority students, of whom nearly 60 percent receive free or reduced - priced lunch.

In 2014, Nevada's population was 48.5 percent minority, and it's expected to have a majority minority population within the next 10 years.

A radical change in city demographics was taking place — in the early 1970s, Minneapolis was just 14 percent nonwhite, but by 1995 the Minneapolis Public Schools student body was majority minority.

It's not hard to understand why many charter schools have a majority minority population.

Our 800 students are majority minority and majority low - income.

Works by Annu Palakunnathu Matthew's series To Majority Minority will be shared at the exhibition (un) expected families at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.