Sentences with phrase «minority city population»

It's a concept that has many detractors: a mostly minority city population is concerned it's needs won't be heard and more suburban citizens fear their taxes will end up bailing out a city with major financial problems.

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Detroit also has the fourth - largest number of minority - owned small businesses among American cities, though it ranks only 23rd by population.

To find evidence that the evangelism offices of the denominations are trying to undo that captivity and deal seriously with the cities and the ethnic minority populations that live in them is not easy.

Kennedy: «I'm disappointed with the addition of the 63rd Senate seat, besides adding to the cost of government, it was put in a place that has no impact on western New York and quite frankly has no impact on the population shift in New York state and if there was going to be an additional seat added that despite the fact that I disagree with you that the Constitution was in fact violated and you say that it was not violated — the fact that this additional seat adding to the cost and size of government was added to a place in the Capital Region rather than a place where distinctly the population grew down in New York City I believe was based upon the fact that had an additional district been added in the city where the population shift had come from it would have included that seat being an additional minority seat and that is why it was put up in the Capital Region and rather than in the New York City aCity I believe was based upon the fact that had an additional district been added in the city where the population shift had come from it would have included that seat being an additional minority seat and that is why it was put up in the Capital Region and rather than in the New York City acity where the population shift had come from it would have included that seat being an additional minority seat and that is why it was put up in the Capital Region and rather than in the New York City aCity area.

But the problem is more acute for Goldsmith because politically, London is a left - leaning city, with liberal values and a large ethnic minority population.

McLaughlin scoffed at the notion that the city's minority populations have benefited sufficiently from Sheehan's tenure.

Maffei's strongest base of support came from voters in the city of Syracuse, where minorities account for more than 40 percent of the population.

TROY — The Democrat - controlled City Council plans to create a «minority - majority» council district to reflect the city's surging minority populatCity Council plans to create a «minority - majority» council district to reflect the city's surging minority populatcity's surging minority population.

Several districts in the city are protected by the Voting Rights Act because of large minority populations, but Mr. Weiner's is not.

It is a multi ethnic city which has predominant Bulgarian population with sizable Turkish and Roma minorities.

Yet most of the 1,523 students enrolled in the grade six - to - 12 school are from minority groups and the inner city — populations that typically struggle in school.

Even with these small minority populations, the conflict generated in these cities over efforts to move students to achieve economic balance in the schools was considerable.

Though Tacoma had only about 7,000 blacks — out of a total population of about 160,000 — our minority housing, like that in many cities, was concentrated in one area and served by schools then in violation of our state's de facto segregation rule.

Kozol points out that the wealthiest suburban school districts surrounding New York City, for example, spend more per pupil to educate their mostly white student bodies than the city spends to educate its mostly minority populatCity, for example, spend more per pupil to educate their mostly white student bodies than the city spends to educate its mostly minority populatcity spends to educate its mostly minority population.

However, in combination the various chapters confirm what most observers of charter schools already know: that charter schools serve different demographic groups depending on where they are located, are disproportionately located in low - income and minority areas in big cities and in those places serve mostly low - income and African American families — but, in some states, also exist in suburban areas where they serve predominantly white populations.

In recent months, the city's battle over school segregation has played out in a few specific schools in some of the its fastest - gentrifying (or already gentrified - to - saturation - point) neighborhoods: Nikole Hannah - Jones chronicled the Brooklyn version of the saga in her much - discussed New York Times Magazine piece last weekend, «Choosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City,» about her decision to send her black daughter to a mostly minority school, only to have that school rezoned to include an affluent, predominantly white populatcity's battle over school segregation has played out in a few specific schools in some of the its fastest - gentrifying (or already gentrified - to - saturation - point) neighborhoods: Nikole Hannah - Jones chronicled the Brooklyn version of the saga in her much - discussed New York Times Magazine piece last weekend, «Choosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City,» about her decision to send her black daughter to a mostly minority school, only to have that school rezoned to include an affluent, predominantly white populatCity,» about her decision to send her black daughter to a mostly minority school, only to have that school rezoned to include an affluent, predominantly white population.

Schools in these areas will never have minority populations of 90 % or greater since very few minorities live in these white cities.

The authors found that schools in big cities with high minority populations were particularly successful at recruiting teachers with higher SAT scores.

And in the end, they got twice the portion of minority kids as the city's population.

The fact that many conservative reformers and movement conservatives no longer live in big cities and almost never live in suburbs with significant minority populations such as Prince George's County, Md., also means that they rarely have deep conversations with people who live in them or address their concerns in meaningful ways.

Moskowitz's meeting with Trump came as something of a surprise to New York City's education community, given her long history as a Democrat and the overwhelmingly minority population of her 41 charter schools.

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Also of interest, the makeup of the city council was changed by a federal judge, under the Voting Rights Act of 1965, because the council did not represent the large minority population.

The car share system has been acquired and relaunched by Zipcar, which has pledged to partner with Shared Mobility Inc. and continue its commitment to serving the city's low income and minority populations.

By order of this Court, New Haven, a city in which African - Americans and Hispanics account for nearly 60 percent of the population, must today be served — as it was in the days of undisguised discrimination — by a fire department in which members of racial and ethnic minorities are rarely seen in command positions.

As near as I can tell, this law essentially requires cities to draw council districts in such a way that the number of districts where the minority citizens - of - voting - age population (CVAP) forms a majority of the total district CVAP is roughly proportional to the total minority population as a proportion of the total population of the city.

Seventy - one per cent of the 632 documented jurors were white in cities where more than half the population identifies as non-white (In Toronto, 51.4 per cent of residents identify as visible minorities; in Brampton, the figure is 73.3 per cent).

Also of interest, the makeup of the city council was changed by a federal judge, under the Voting Rights Act of 1965, because the council did not represent the large minority population.

A quarter of the population is minority, represented largely by a Hispanic segment comprising nearly 15 percent of the city's total.

Louisville is a steadily growing city with large minority populations and many residents under the age of 18.2 These populations face many common mental health issues, such as anxiety, depression, and substance use and abuse.