Sentences with phrase «minority of all income groups»

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A New York City advocacy group for low - income and minority residents filed a lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase Bank last fall for what it says are illegal and exploitative tactics that have cost the two named plaintiffs thousands of dollars in penalty fees it contends they shouldn't have had to pay.

In December, a group of five Senate Democrats, including Democratic Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins of Yonkers, said they would introduce a bill banning lawmakers from accepting outside income from private companies.

In that elderly, minority and low - income groups are less likely to have these documents, they are correct in that voter ID laws will be more of a hassle for these groups than others.

BOSTON — The oral health of ethnic minorities and lower - income groups is much worse than that of the general population, but leveraging social networks and other innovative healthcare delivery channels may help close this troubling gap.

Diabetes brings a wide array of complications that can harm the cardiovascular system and other organs, and it has been found to affect some groups, such as racial and ethnic minorities and people with low incomes, at a disproportionate rate.

This group on average scores much lower in terms of educational attainment and income and trends more female and minority in background.

Indoor air quality is a concern especially in low - income and minority communities as studies show levels of indoor pollutants are often higher in these groups compared with more affluent homes.

Other groups that saw significant increases included: older adults; racial / ethnic minorities; and Americans with lower levels of education and income.

Minority groups and lower - income groups are often the targets of aggressive marketing campaigns for fast foods and highly processed food, he adds.

Options that don't end in a bachelor's degree will fail to help disadvantaged students see themselves as college material, and predictably channel them into less promising options, forming an «educational caste system,» according to Kati Haycock, the president of the Education Trust, a Washington group that presses for better opportunities for low - income and minority students.

Citywide and statewide parents» groups are finding one of their biggest problems to be the relatively low participation rate of low - income and minority parents.

The costs of these gaps (most commonly associated with low income, limited education, and minority group status) are reflected in higher school dropout rates, lower economic productivity, decreased social mobility, increased need for medical services, and higher rates of incarceration.

For example, with our limited number of school groups we can not know whether minority students, female students, younger students, low - income students, or rural students receive different benefits from seeing live theater.

In their apology for the American school, David Berliner and Gene Glass seek to reassure Americans by trying to isolate the problem to minority groups or those of low income.

Students in the latter group are more likely than their peers to have lower family incomes and education levels, be members of ethnic minorities, or come from immigrant families.

The report, released Nov. 16 by the New York City - based Public Agenda research group, found that low - income parents and those who are members of racial and ethnic minorities are more interested in an academic focus than are wealthier and white parents.

It recruits a mix of black, Latino, and white families, in contrast to the homogeneous groups of low - income minority students urban charters generally serve.

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.

The South hit a demographic turning point over the past couple of years, becoming the first U.S. region in which both low - income and minority students constitute a majority of public school enrollment, an Atlanta - based advocacy group says.

Nevertheless, these problems are occurring in many places — unintended effects of policies that have aimed to provide more useful information to educators, families, students, and policymakers and to ensure attention to the learning progress of low - income and minority students, English learners, students with disabilities, and members of other groups that have been traditionally underserved,» the statement read.

Nevertheless, these problems are occurring in many places — unintended effects of policies that have aimed to provide more useful information to educators, families, students, and policymakers and to ensure attention to the learning progress of low - income and minority students, English learners, students with disabilities, and members of other groups that have been traditionally underserved.

But school board member James H. DeGraffenreidt said he is opposed to such a dual diploma system because he believes it would institutionalize the achievement gap for groups of students with low pass rates, including low - income, minority and special education students.

The combination of funding and sanctions will make the tests high - stakes where they now are not, with all the well - documented harmful consequences for curriculum and instruction, particularly for low - income and minority - group students.

Among the facts from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Fourth Grade Reading report cited by FairTest: — There has been no gain in NAEP grade four reading performance nationally since 1992 despite a huge increase in state - mandated testing; — NAEP scores in southern states, which test the most and have the highest stakes attached to their state testing programs, have declined; — The NAEP score gap between white children and those from African American and Hispanic families has increased, even though schools serving low - income and minority - group children put the most emphasis on testing; and — Scores of children eligible for free lunch programs have dropped since 1996.

Encourage the use of disaggregated demographic data — such as on first - generation, low - income, racial / ethnic minority students; adult students; students with second - language backgrounds; undocumented students; veterans; students with disabilities; and foster care, disconnected, and formerly incarcerated youth — to inform the practices and policies that may hold promise for specific groups of students

«NCLB must be overhauled if the federal government is to make a useful contribution to enhancing the quality of education received by low - income and minority group students.»

They've got to look at how all kids are doing at the school overall, but also how specific groups of students are doing — like students with disabilities, those from low - income families, non-native English speakers, and every major racial and ethnic minority.

The defendants also argue that the plaintiffs failed to prove they are members of a «suspect class,» which basically means plaintiffs didn't prove that school districts harmed a specific group — in this case, minority kids from low - income families — by moving ineffective teachers into schools populated by members of the group.

Nearly 70 percent of Field's students fall into one or more of what the state refers to as «gap» groups, subpopulations of students, such as disabled or low - income or minority, who have historically been at a disadvantage in the classroom.

«Let's call this move what it is: a pivot in the wrong policy direction to pander to a sizable interest group — teachers» unions — that comes at the expense of mostly low - income, minority kids who desperately need high - quality school options,» Francesca Jarosz Brady wrote in an op - ed published by The Hill on Nov. 13.

Two arguments were advanced for targeting low - income, minority, and immigrant groups in racially and economically isolated charter schools: the need to maximize bang for the educational buck, and the belief that the special needs of these communities could be better addressed in concentrated settings.

CPER - funded groups seek to improve education for all students by building the power of low - income and minority communities to influence educational policies at the local and state levels.

«While we are pleased to see that H.R. 5 maintains statewide annual assessments, other provisions of the bill will significantly weaken the law's focus on the very groups of children who are at its heart — low - income children, racial minorities, English learners and students with disabilities.

For example, confounding occurs if teachers of low - income or minority students have lower — or higher — scores than equally effective teachers who teach groups that tend to be higher - achieving.

He also coordinated the effort of a Los Angeles coalition of civil rights, education and community advocacy groups — known as Communities for Los Angeles Student Success, or CLASS — to use the state's new K - 12 local funding law to improve achievement for minority and low - income students.

Campaign for Quality Education v. California was filed that same summer by the nonprofit law firm Public Advocates on behalf of a coalition of community groups serving low - income and minority students.

Well the core argument in favor is that NCLB forced schools to report the performance of historically disadvantaged groups — minorities, students with disabilities, English language learners and low - income students.

And a report that group released earlier this year showed that charter school enrollment in the 2014 - 2015 school year consisted of disproportionately minority and low - income students.

And as districts with higher levels of state funding generally serve lower - income and minority communities, those groups will end up being the most negatively affected by the growth in retirement spending.

Mathematics Engineering Science Achievement (MESA) strives to provide an opportunity for ethnic minority, low - income, and first - generation college - bound students to explore college majors and career interests with a group of peers interested in attending college.

LCAP Watch is the creation of Education Trust - West, a nonprofit group that advocates for low - income, minority students, along with three - dozen organizations and groups that have agreed to share information on districts» newly passed accountability plans and to spread the word about the new repository.

While Soulsville tries to strike the right balance of reading and math with music courses for its predominantly black and lower - income population, nationally, students from low - income families and minority groups are significantly more likely to go without music classes than their more affluent peers, according to data collected by the Arts Education Partnership at the Council of Chief State School Officers, said Scott Jones, a senior associate with the group.

As a part of my graduate work at Virginia Tech's Alexandria urban planning program, I asked managers of current and planned North American bike sharing systems what they have done to increase access to bike sharing for low - income communities, and minority groups disproportionately underrepresented in bicycling.

This tension within the climate movement has played out most recently in California, where low - income and minority groups have won substantial changes to the state's climate law, ensuring that a larger portion of cap - and - trade revenue is directed to their communities.

The generally higher income «environmentalists» and wind and solar industries are married to the extreme left of the Democratic Party, which draws much of its support from minority and less well - to - do groups, who will lose heavily from reducing CO2 emissions, particularly from such an absurd goal as 80 - 50.

The original study, titled «Potential Impact of Proposed EPA Regulations on Low Income Groups and Minorities» is available here (PDF).

Environmental racism describes this unfortunate situation and refers to «the enactment of any policy or regulation that negatively affects the living conditions of low - income or minority communities at a rate disproportionate from affluent communities» (Environmental Justice Group.

For the last ten years my research at Emory has focused on clinical studies through my pro bono work as a human rights attorney, representing immigrants and low income disenfranchised minority groups, and over the last six years as a part - time magistrate judge engaged in presiding over and supervising therapeutic criminal diversion programs designed to redress the traumatization of socially and economically marginalized minority young adults, whose socioeconomic condition contributed to their criminalization.

My next step in the following weeks will be to begin work on organizing a forum on the issue to be held at Emory University School of Law, to which I will invite by publication invitation members of the statewide judiciary and criminal justice system, as well as representatives of low income minority churches and groups, and the general public.

Rates for minorities, the uninsured and other vulnerable groups are lower still, with only 22 percent of lower - income people screened.