Sentences with phrase «minority school system»

Demographic shifts contributed to Baltimore's becoming an overwhelmingly poor and minority school system.

If MA is a good sport, they would fight left handed - what chance does a majority - minority school system with half the spending per pupil have against the highest performing state education system in the nation many years running?

Not exact matches

The Broward county school system, where Marjory Stoneman Douglas is located, has had a program with the goal of limiting outsized disciplinary measures against minority students since 2013, a year before the Obama DOE's guidelines were issued.

In the House, Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy announced a vote on the STOP School Violence Act, a bill that doesn't address guns but provides an annual $ 50 million grant to schools for training programs and revamped reporting systems.

For example, the school system could build in some flexibility to reasonably accommodate the minority's religious needs by allowing exams to be written on alternative days, or permitting extensions on assignments if the due dates fall on holidays etc..

There are smaller steps that could be taken to accomodate the prayer needs of those students rather than rescheduling a whole school system over the needs of a small minority.

Additionally, this is an education system that promotes inequality and therefore injustice: Schools in the United States are twice as likely to pair poor and minority students with brand - new teachers and almost four times more likely to suspend black students than white students.

The platform planks for «32 embodied a number of Century concerns: U.S. adherence to the World Court protocol; U.S. entry into the League of Nations, provided that its covenant be amended to eliminate military sanctions; U.S. recognition of the Soviet Union (which was granted a year later); the safeguarding of the rights of conscientious objectors (including those denied citizenship, such as Canadian - born theologian D. C. Macintosh of Yale Divinity School); the abolition of compulsory military training in state - supported educational institutions other than military and naval academies; emergency measures for relief and public - works employment; the securing of constitutional rights for minorities; the reduction of gross inequality of income by steeply progressive rates of taxation on large incomes; «progressive socialization of the ownership and control of natural resources, public utilities and basic industries»; «the nationalization of our entire banking system»; and so on (June 8, 1932).

«The underrepresentation of some minority groups in New York's Specialized High Schools is indicative of a larger set of challenges that face this city's educational system today,» said Bronx Assemblywoman Jeff Dinowitz in a statement.

It would be «appalling» and «lives would be lost» if Trump follows through on proposed cuts to the gun - background - check system in light of last week's deadly school shooting, U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said.

Assemblyman Karim Camara (D - Brooklyn), who is sponsoring the charter - school bill, said he supports lifting the cap because «we need an educational system that educates all children — including poor, minority children.

The underrepresentation of some minority groups in New York's Specialized High Schools is indicative of a larger set of challenges that face this city's educational system today.

The comptroller's action leaves the separate New York State Teachers» Retirement System — which covers public - school educators outside New York City — in a shrinking minority of funds still optimistically assuming they'll earn 8 percent.

At Wednesday's Buffalo School Board meeting, the long struggle over getting more minority and women - owned businesses among the vendors to the district system turned into a discussion about using student labor.

In a news conference just before the board meeting in Performing Arts School, an alliance of Citizen Action and the Alliance for Quality Education says the new system still suspends minority students out of their proportion in the schools.

Aware that even the most talented students failed to receive Ph.D. s and find employment in science and engineering, Hrabowski created a system in 1988 to mold high - achieving minority high school students into elite researchers.

'» It is not hard to picture other problematic scenarios: An autonomous drone strikes a school; a loan - evaluation program disproportionally denies applications from minorities; a system like Deep Patient makes a specious diagnosis.

Expanding Underrepresented Minority Participation suggests that the federal government, industry, and post-secondary institutions work collaboratively with K - 12 schools and school systems to increase minority access to and demand for post-secondary STEM education and technical tMinority Participation suggests that the federal government, industry, and post-secondary institutions work collaboratively with K - 12 schools and school systems to increase minority access to and demand for post-secondary STEM education and technical tminority access to and demand for post-secondary STEM education and technical training.

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 stuSchool 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 stuSchool 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 stuschool 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.

She is more determined than ever to work on behalf of the children that she feels are affected most by the failures of the current system: those educated in inner - city, lower - income, ethnic - minority majority public school districts.

Those most victimized by this regime were high - achieving poor and minority students — kids who were dependent on the school system to cultivate their potential and accelerate their achievement.

There is considerable evidence that during the past decade in Texas the needs of minority students have received increased attention as a result of an accountability system that demands that a school show not only overall progress, but also progress among its most disadvantaged charges.

She taught in middle schools with minority and low - income children in Atlanta and Boston for eight years (she notes in passing that she was tenured in the Boston school system), after majoring in philosophy at Yale and receiving a doctorate from Oxford.

The Connecticut Civil Liberties Union (CCLU) has complained to two federal agencies that the Hartford school system is violating the rights of minority students by spending less money educating minorities than it spends on white students.

To Hramiec's point, this fuels a vicious cycle when it comes to competency models spreading: if a small minority of fully competency - based schools can not spur a supply of integrated competency - based technology solutions, it is unlikely that larger systems, whose demand ultimately drives the edtech market, will move away from time - based practices.

After 1974, however, school integration efforts outside the South were stymied by the Supreme Court's 5 - 4 decision in Milliken v. Bradley, which prohibited heavily minority urban systems from including nearby suburbs in desegregation plans.

A campaign that brought several thousand more students into the Dallas school district's «majority - to - minority» exchange program this year has also brought a transportation system that parents elsewhere might well envy.

A federal appeals court has ruled in favor of the Chicago school system in a dispute with a minority - owned company that held various contracts with the district between 1987 and 2003.

One wonders if those who brought this suit are willing to press their equality claims to their logical conclusions and challenge the vast array of inequalities poor and minority children might experience in public school systems.

The State Report examines how six states (Arizona, California, Illinois, Georgia, New York, and Virginia) designed their accountability systems to meet the Title I requirements and the implications of these provisions for schools with large numbers of low - income and minority students.

President Barack Obama is forcefully defending his signature education initiative, the $ 4.35 billion Race to the Top program, which has come under fire from civil rights groups that worry the competitive nature of the program creates a system of winners and losers that could hinder schools serving poor and minority students.

In January 2001, a state supreme court justice ruled that the state's school funding system is inequitable, creating «an adverse impact on minority public school children.»

This is the same Department of Education that can't support a voucher program in Washington DC to help minority children escape the grinding incompetence of the DC school system.

Parents can grow defensive about their children's behavior, and, especially in low - income or minority communities, many families may have years (if not decades) of negative associations with school systems.

Focusing on college prep classes when many minority children are trapped in dysfunctional and failing urban school system will likely be met with a giant «huh?»

But in the end, there remains an ailing minority - dominated school system in Syracuse in which fewer than 3 of 10 8th graders pass state tests in reading and math.

79, president of the foundation, «when we developed the conviction that dramatic structural change was going to be necessary in Boston and other urban public school systems in order to generate broad improvement in the academic achievement of the mostly low - income, minority students who populate these districts today.»

Supporters argue that charter schools provide alternative solutions to the traditional public school system, in which many schools — especially those in low - income, predominantly minority school districts — find themselves with limited resources to offer their large student populations.

In addition to the Buffett interview, other summit sessions that NBC recently confirmed include: The Changing Face of Education — More than one in five students in the nation's public schools are Latino — constituting the largest, and fastest growing, minority group in our education system.

Traditional zone - based systems generally leave low - income and minority students heavily concentrated in low - performing schools.

But parochial schools are one of the largest (if not the largest) alternatives to the American public - education system, and their steady decline inordinately affects urban low - income minorities who would otherwise be left at the mercy of public schools that have proven incapable of educating them.

[11] Since politics is a zero - sum game, a district - based school system creates winners and losers and can shut out minority voices.

This brief summarizes the results of a study of the recruitment, employment, and retention of minority k - 12 teachers, examining the extent and sources of the minority teacher shortage and offering evidence - based solutions to addressing the low proportion of minority teachers in comparison to the increasing numbers of minority students in the school system.

There was no evidence of response bias at the school level: the proportion of respondent teachers in low - income, minority, and low - performing schools was the same as in the entire CPS system.

At the local level, minority parents feared losing their voice in a white - dominated public school system.

• Minority parents are increasingly angry and disenchanted with failing inner - city school systems and are less willing to listen to promises that things will get better if they continue to trust the system and drench it with resources.

States must include each major racial / ethnic subgroup in school accountability systems and can not use a combined «super subgroup» of minority students.

About two - thirds of the students in both systems live in poverty, and more than 90 percent are minorities, according to school records.

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 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 schools that serve poor and minority students more effectively than most middle schools in the New York City public school 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.