Sentences with phrase «minority schools did»

This is not to say that high - minority schools do not receive lower grades (they do).

High - poverty and high - minority schools do not seem to face greater challenges than other kinds of schools.

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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.

It has failed to make minority faith schools more diverse, because parents of other religions and none do not send their children to those schools.

The bottom line is whether or not the majority of Americans should have the right to force a minority to do things they find objectionable — whether it's religious folks forcing God into schools or athiests forcing condoms in Catholic church — is that what any of us wants?

Many persons who are not likely to join groups in churches and schools may do so if they're made available in family counseling agencies» mental health services, youth organizations, business and industry, fraternal groups, self - help groups (such as A.A., P.W.P., Alanon, etc.), and in the many organizations devoted to special needs of the handicapped, ex-prisoners, ex-patients, unwed parents, minority groups of all kinds, senior citizens, community action groups, ethnic organizations.

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Most Americans assume that the separation of church and state is a fundamental principle deeply rooted in American constitutionalism; that the First Amendment was intended to ensure that government does not involve itself with religion (and vice versa); and that contemporary debates over such vexing issues as school prayer, voucher programs, government funding of faith - based organizations, and the rights of religious minorities represent ongoing attempts to realize the separation intended by the Founders and like - minded early Americans.

I'm sure there will be a vocal minority that does not want the fee, but there is plenty of support to get it done and most students don't think critically about the current costs of attending school, especially when those who use student loans to pay for college won't see the actual cost until after they graduate.

The government is charged vociferously with paying too much attention to faith groups (accused by left - liberal secularists of an unprincipled timidity on faith schools, being too open to faith engagement in third sector; and of being generally rather socially conservative; and, alternatively, by the right having a cynical multiculturalist approach to minority faiths as electoral blocs) and also of too little attention to faith (with some «competitive grievance» claims that Muslims are getting too much attention, by some claiming to speak for some other minority faiths and by some Christian voices; and traditionalists who think there is a secret project to do in every institution).

State Education Commissioner David Steiner, who is under intense pressure to either grant or deny a waiver to Mayor Bloomberg's NYC schools chancellor pick, Cathie Black, is keeping a fairly low profile these days, but he did respond to a letter from minority lawmakers who hoped to meet with him prior to his decision.

Too many minority and immigrant children don't have the services like after school and ESL that they need.

The hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb, a prominent charter school supporter and a major financial backer of Gov. Andrew Cuomo and congressional Republicans, accused Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins, who is black, of having done «more damage to people of color than anyone who has ever donned a hood.»

Minority students across Erie County would do better in school if they saw more teachers who look like them in the classroom or in the halls.

«Justice Atuguba has seniority over me because instead of continuing straight from the fourth year as we used to call it, of law school, to the fifth year which is the professional year or rather the final part of the professional course, I broke and went to do my master's so when I came back they — my first classmates — had already been called to the bar so I was called to the bar with Ato Dadzie and that younger generation,» she told parliament's Appointment Committee on Friday, 16 June when Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu asked her to clarify to the committee whether she or Justice Atuguba was senior to the other.

«We do not want Paul Ryan in our city visiting a school on Malcolm X Boulevard, a school with mostly minority children, to have a photo op,» Becker said.

In a flurry of television appearances, Mr. Peebles attacked the mayor from both the left and right, accusing his liberal administration of trying to clamp down on charter schools and not doing enough to help minority - owned businesses.

It's not only the churches but other minority religious groups which are seeking to run schools and to be funded by the public purse to do so.

Minorities made up 11 percent of the local construction unions in 2012, according to a census conducted by LPCiminelli as part of the Buffalo schools reconstruction project; that census does not provide a more detailed breakdown by racial group.

Sherrill envisioned her platform as a kind of «fusion do - gooder,» promoting the management skills that have allowed Success to grow so quickly and marketing herself as a champion for low - income, minority families in search of better schools.

Moskowitz, who has pledged to build out the Success network to 100 schools, is likely to continue on the warpath against de Blasio, accusing him of depriving poor and minority students of educational opportunities, as she will do at a march over the Brooklyn Bridge in a few weeks.

While the governor could not make any definite promises or plans for the future since the state is currently posting a deficit, he did remind the crowd that during his years in office he has fought for and improved minority business ratings and school programs.

A significant minority of the free schools are opting to use these methods of allocating places despite concerns that they do not promote fair, equitable access for all children.

«We do not want the search for superintendent to be limited to those individuals who have applied to be the deputy,» said Minority School Board member Barbara Seals Nevergold.

«We do not want the search for superintendent to be limited to those individuals who have applied to be the deputy,» said Barbara Seals Nevergold, Minority School Board member.

And that is why you have people elected like Ed Day because people outside of Ramapo who have not seen the growth of the religious communities in their neighborhoods yet, they still understand what's happening in East Ramapo and they know that it's fundamentally wrong that people would take over a school district who don't send their children there and then deny minority students a fair education.

3) Public School Education and Common Core During your meetings with our neighbors do you ever discuss the breakdown of the educational opportunities being provided to the minority children in East Ramapo?

THE BRONX — State Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz tried to block minority students from enrolling in a popular public elementary school — saying that he didn't want «outsiders» coming into the kindergarten in the tony area of Riverdale, according to a lawsuit filed by the school's assistant principal on Monday.

As we've noted before, that blames a race - neutral exam for the failure of the city's primary and middle schools — and would do far more damage to the top schools than it would help aspiring minority kids.

Organizers of MESA, an educational enrichment program that encourages and aids minority students to pursue science - related majors, understood what many people including the bigoted farmer and my high school counselor did not — that minorities are capable of great scholastic achievement and triumph despite negative stereotypical labels.

«Diversity initiatives do not increase representation of minorities on medical school faculty.»

Schools, teacher quality and family income all play a large role in student success, but these factors do not fully explain the academic differences seen in the U.S. between whites and disadvantaged racial / ethnic minorities, including blacks and Hispanics.

«Almost everybody would not want to have anything to do with us because they feel you went to a minority medical school, and you are not a minority... Even if you try to explain, it didn't really matter.»

Researchers at Wake Forest University have found that medical schools simply do not provide obesity education to their students, and only a small minority of major medical centers even provide adequate, effective training to students in caring for obese patients.

What Times readers were not told, however, was that before NCLB, North Carolina, like almost every state, did not hold schools accountable for the performance of various subgroups, like minorities and special - needs students.

While we do not have much experience with such policies, they seem like the most feasible way to deal with the problems of schools serving low - income and minority students.

He does not think school choice will do much, as many believe, for poor minority children.

Despite serving a substantially greater proportion of students from low - income families and minorities than district schools, a higher percentage of CMU schools (86 percent) made AYP in 2010 - 11 than did public schools statewide (79 percent).

I can also be precise about what I mean by acting white: a set of social interactions in which minority adolescents who get good grades in school enjoy less social popularity than white students who do well academically.

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).

Second, and perhaps more important, the fact that poor and minority students flee segregated traditional public schools for similarly segregated charters does not imply that charter school policy is imposing segregation upon these students.

«And the social consequences of that is that the students in the schools with the most resources — often the white students — can develop computing skills, while minorities at underachieving schools don't have the opportunity.»

This is a problem familiar to education reformers: a voluntary 25 - year - old program that sends minority students from Boston to surrounding suburban districts has a waiting list that exceeds 12,000 kids because the receiving schools say they don't have enough space to accept more children.

Schools do matter a lot, and more than a few exist that have achieved phenomenal results for poor and minority students.

«Virtually everybody concludes that this has to do with the fact that high - minority schools — which is where teachers of color want to be — are on average more dysfunctional as organizations.»

California's extraordinarily liberal charter - school law, which gave birth to the nation's first charter - management organization (Aspire), differs from those of other states, partly because it does not require a focus on poor and minority students.

In L.A., however, where most charters serve poor and minority students — and appear to be doing a better job of it than many of their district - school counterparts — there is more at stake.

Only a small minority of American blacks are Catholic, but black parents were sending their children to Catholic schools, despite tuition fees and instruction in a religion the parents did not themselves follow.

Yet data clearly show that some groups of students, poor and minority students in particular, do not fare appreciably better in schools that are higher performing overall.

Teachers are recognising the problem, with nearly three - quarters (72 per cent) believing that social media etiquette and ethics should be taught in schools, yet only a minority (36 per cent) do so.