Sentences with phrase «minority city students»

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This morning, de Blasio released a video reiterating his standard reply to criticism from the charter contingency: that his responsibility is to all students in New York City, not just the minority that attend charters.

The Buffalo Public Schools district potentially faces two lawsuits: for not increasing the ranks of minority students at City Honors and for favoring current city students for admission over charter and parochial studeCity Honors and for favoring current city students for admission over charter and parochial studecity students for admission over charter and parochial students.

She has defended her schools» high standards and has railed against the city's de-escalation of discipline policies that led to skyrocketing rates of suspensions for minority students.

The turmoil at the school has continued with Assistant Principal Manuele Verdi's recent lawsuit against the city accusing State Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz and his office of getting involved with enrollment at the school to block minority students from attending.

Schenectady City Schools Superintendent Laurence Spring has filed a federal complaint that argues the state's aid formula discriminates against poor and minority students.

Identifying poverty and a race - wide issue, not just affecting inner - city or minority communities, as it was mentioned 62 percent of poverty in Erie County takes place outside the City of Buffalo; with the Rural Outreach Center (ROC) having been established in East Aurora as a central area of assistance; to go along with the Department of Social Services utilizing University at Buffalo student interms to assist those in the communcity or minority communities, as it was mentioned 62 percent of poverty in Erie County takes place outside the City of Buffalo; with the Rural Outreach Center (ROC) having been established in East Aurora as a central area of assistance; to go along with the Department of Social Services utilizing University at Buffalo student interms to assist those in the communCity of Buffalo; with the Rural Outreach Center (ROC) having been established in East Aurora as a central area of assistance; to go along with the Department of Social Services utilizing University at Buffalo student interms to assist those in the community.

Researchers from UCLA, UC San Francisco and San Jose City College found that, among students who apply to and attend medical school, those from underrepresented minority backgrounds are more likely than white and Asian students to have attended a community college at some point.

The Columbia University - City University of New York team invited SpelBots to help further their outreach efforts to women and minority students in New York City.

As a child of Jamaican origin growing up in the British city of Nottingham, Mark Richards experienced firsthand the disadvantages that can accrue to ethnic - minority students.

Intended to reach low - income schools with students who are primarily from underrepresented minorities, BioEYES is now a partnership between the Carnegie Institution and Johns Hopkins that has worked with 100,000 students in Baltimore, Philadelphia and other cities.

This suggests that medium - sized cities throughout the country — not just the most elite technology hubs on the coasts — can play an important role in bringing more minority students into science and technology.

In some school communities, like New York City, many poor and minority students are attending under - resourced schools that are not only separate and isolated, but that are also just as unequal as they were in the mid-20th century.

Over the past few years, the districts profiled in the report — the Houston Independent School District, the Sacramento City Unified School District, the Charlotte - Mecklenburg school system in North Carolina, and the Chancellor's District in New York City, a special 25,000 - student district of low - performing schools — have improved test scores and narrowed achievement gaps between minority and white students.

He flew to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to consult with faculty at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and learned of Tony Alvarado, the former New York City schools chancellor and head of District 4 on the East Side of Manhattan, where he had had remarkable success in raising achievement in a district dominated by minority students.

Heavily white school districts near the Twin Cities would be required to attract minority students and insure that they soon achieve on a par with their new peers, under a proposal before the Minnesota state board of education this week.

Fifty - two percent of city charter school students were in 90 - 100 % minority schools, compared to only 34 % of traditional public school students — a difference of eighteen percentage points, very similar to the overall difference of twenty percentage points between the two sectors of schools (Table 22 on p. 63 of our report).

The 309 schools included in the study differed from other city schools in the following ways: They had a higher proportion of English Language Learners (ELL), special education, minority students, and students eligible for the Title I free or reduced - price lunch program, as well as lower average math and reading scores.

F&M's approach to retaining and graduating minority students is modeled directly on the work of the Posse Foundation, a New York City — based nonprofit that sends group of students, a posse, to college together to act as a support system for one another.

We modified the CRP analysis by comparing the percentage of students in hypersegregated minority charters within the central city of each CBSA to the percentage of students in hypersegregated minority traditional public schools within the same central city.

Using the best available unit of comparison, we find that 63 percent of charter students in these central cities attend school in intensely segregated minority schools, as do 53 percent of traditional public school students (see Figure 1).

First, the majority of students in central cities, in both the public charter sector and in the traditional public sector, attend intensely segregated minority schools.

While at the Ed School, Johnson taught history at a high school and focused his program on underprivileged, inner - city schools that were dominated by impoverished minority students.

If basic literacy is in fact necessary for a teacher to be effective in the classroom, the victims of this policy will be the students; in New York City, minority students will be its primary victims, as most students taught by minority teachers are of the same background.

Her book, Balancing Acts: Youth Culture in the Global City (University of California Press 2010), challenges teachers, administrators, and parents to look beneath the outward manifestations of youth culture — the clothing, music, and tough talk — to better understand the internal struggle faced by many minority students and children of immigrants as they try to fit in with peers while working to lay the groundwork for successful lives.

As is common for large urban school districts, the student body of Baltimore city's schools is predominantly minority and poor.

Kansas City schools were already predominantly minority, and the Supreme Court had ruled in the Detroit case that surrounding school districts not found guilty of segregation could not be pulled into a case to provide more white students for desegregation.

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.

• Show that public charter schools could benefit the students most in need of new opportunities (poor and minority children in big cities).

Many of these new schools are focused on solving one of our society's most intractable problems: how to close the achievement gap between low - income minority students in our nation's inner cities and their white middle - and upper - class contemporaries in the suburbs.

Certainly, that is the case, on average, for low - income minority students in New York City.

Her forthcoming book, Balancing Acts: Youth Culture in the Global City (University of California Press 2010), challenges teachers, administrators, and parents to look beneath the outward manifestations of youth culture — the clothing, music, and tough talk — to better understand the internal struggle faced by many minority students and children of immigrants as they try to fit in with peers while working to lay the groundwork for successful lives.

Fifty - two percent of city charter - school students were in 90 to 100 percent minority schools, compared to 34 percent of traditional public - school students.

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.

Districts: Los Angeles Unified School District; Chicago Public Schools; New York City Public Schools; DeKalb County, GA; Fresno, CA; Mesa, AZ; Washington Elementary District, AZ; Buffalo, NY; Atlanta, GA; Arlington, VA; and Richmond, VA.) The states and districts were chosen to reflect the diversity of the country and to examine with special care the impacts of the law on minority students and schools.

Using a complicated formula approved by the court, the state funds magnet schools that accept students from several different districts (at a minimum there must be two) at a per - pupil rate that increases as the number of districts sending students increases — an attempt to bring central - city minority students and white suburban students together in the same school.

Indeed, in many large cities during the 1960s and 1970s, the problems facing minority high - school students actually worsened, as their schools became battlegrounds for such issues as busing and identity politics, issues that overwhelmed more routine efforts to improve the quality of education.

Education World visited three New York City schools whose students are predominantly poor children who belong to minority groups.

Students explore the impact of a plan to locate a new industry in a low - income neighborhood, then take on the roles of community members, business executives, and city officials as they advocate for and against building a power plant in a low - income minority neighborhood.

The resulting separation between white suburbs with new schools and middle - class students and an increasingly minority central city are all vividly recounted by Grant, who with his wife was deeply involved in efforts to counter the decline, and who in one neighborhood had some success in doing so.

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.

A study of test scores in each of the city's public elementary schools finds that diversity does not erase achievement gaps between white and minority students.

These five schools were located in neighborhoods with some of the highest retention rates in the city (after the promotion policy took effect), and they had large percentages of minority and poor students.

Simply put, the odds are stacked against students travelling great distances and crossing city boundaries to attend these mostly - minority charter schools.

Graduation rates, Regents test scores, drop - out rates, the progress of minority students, the performance of the weakest 9th grade students — you name it, and the results, as evaluated and tabulated by the respected university - based scholars at the Research Alliance for New York City Schools, were very strong, even remarkable.

Thus, the CRP analysis on Table 22 includes traditional public schools in small cities such as Appleton, WI, Ithaca, NY, and Round Rock, TX, which do not have charter schools and have very few minority students.

Second, the CRP report is primarily concerned with schools that are minority hyper - segregated; are we truly concerned that minority students are transferring from integrated suburban schools to venture into central cities to attend racially segregated schools?

And while religious schools educate a small minority of students in this city, not a single charter has opened there.»

Meeting Adolescent Need: Four Effective Middle Schools This study describes several middle schools that serve poor and minority students more effectively than most middle schools in the New York City public school system.

To: Speaker Carl Heastie Assembly Majority Leader Joseph Morelle Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb Assembly Education Committee Chairwoman Catherine Nolan Majority Leader John Flanagan Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins Senate Education Committee Chair Carl L. Marcellino Governor Andrew Cuomo Educators for Excellence - New York (E4E - New York), a teacher - led organization of over 13,000 New York City public school educators, believes that a multi-measure system of student achievement and a fair system of teacher evaluation is essential to supporting, developing, and retaining high - quality educators.

In New York City, many minority students attend school without a single white classmate.