Sentences with phrase «more black schools»

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• Has invested more than $ 10 million in STEM education programs for girls in elementary through high schools across the US, with partners Code.org, Black Girls Code, Institute of Play, and Digital Promise.

Recent school safety proposals introduced after Parkland — like potentially arming some teachers and staff — also ignore that students of color, especially black students, are more likely to face discipline and punishment in schools than their white peers, and that many of these disparities could be exacerbated by recent proposals to arm teachers or increase school security.

And it's hardly racially balanced: Black students are three times more likely to be suspended or expelled than white students, according to the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights, and research in Texas found students who have been suspended are more likely to be held back a grade and drop out of school entirely.

Black survivors of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, say that the gun control debate that has been raging since the tragedy has largely overlooked them — and argue that recent moves to increase school safety by increasing security would actually put them more atSchool in Parkland, Florida, say that the gun control debate that has been raging since the tragedy has largely overlooked them — and argue that recent moves to increase school safety by increasing security would actually put them more atschool safety by increasing security would actually put them more at risk.

Like our education system, where black and brown students find themselves more segregated than they were in 1968 — stuck in schools that are understaffed and under - resourced.

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.

Meanwhile, a group of 160 African - American community leaders sent NAACP a letter detailing their own objections to its charter - school opposition on behalf of «700,000 black families choosing to send their children to charter public schools, and the tens of thousands more who are still on waiting lists.»

Although we use «linguistic sweeteners and semantic somersaults» and call these schools «diverse,» the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University (now at UCLA) has documented that more than 2 million students, including more than a quarter of black students in the Northeast and Midwest, attend schools in which 99 to 100 percent of the students are nonwhite.

According to the NWLC, black girls are suspended from school five times more than white girls in the United States, but the offenses are usually the same — usually dress code and general behavioral infractions.

The question of whether Catholic parochial - school children were to ride public school buses free of charge drew more ink and blood than the cause of justice for women or blacks.

In fact, about 17 percent of students in Catholic schools in the United States are non-Catholic (more than 300,000 students), and inner - city black Protestants account for a high proportion of that group.

For others, the neighborhood schools are more important than having whites and blacks educated together.

Driving to culinary school in the early pitch black morning in the torrentially POURING rain (might as well be buckets), with giant big - rigs spewing even more on ya... pretty scary indeed.

Students at Boston Public Schools are finding more prominent placement of meat - free dishes in their cafeterias on Mondays and are filling their trays with black bean burrito bowls, garden fresh salads topped with chickpeas, protein - packed chili, and more.

«When I arrived, I had a lot more trouble with the white community than the black community,» says Gregory, who is a high school art teacher and football coach in Reedley, Calif. «But a lot changed during my years there.

By the time he retired from the historically black school in» 93, Big House (he stood 6» 4» and weighed 275 pounds) had won more collegiate games (828) than anyone but Adolph Rupp (876).

The Chiefs» graduation rate since 1988 is 27 %, and according to a report by Juli Rhoden of Oklahoma City's KTOK radio, over that same period no more than 10 % of the school's black players have earned their diplomas.

Factor in that poor black children are almost three times more likely to be held back in school than their white counterparts.

Among the 3,450 students are more than 500 black youngsters, most of them attracted by stronger curricula or better facilities than those available at schools in their own neighborhoods.

A typical black student gets up at 5 a.m. and rides a bus for more than an hour to get to the school.

# 36 Ronnie Black LOVINGTON Two - time state high school golf champ has won more than $ 2 million in 18 years on PGA Tour.

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Mass incarceration plays a role here: More than half of black men without a high school degree do some jail time before they turn 30.

For more on the new school food regulations and the calorie issue, I recommend reading the entire transcript of yesterday's Talk of the Nation, also featuring Jessica Donze Black of the Kids» Safe & Healthful Foods Project.

A study from the Economic Research Service arm of the USDA found that just making more fruit and vegetables available in school cafeterias led to black and Hispanic students, students from Spanish - speaking households, younger students and females all eating more of these healthy foods.

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The latest Web video from the state Democratic Party is a highlight reel of some of GOP / Conservative gubernatorial nominee Carl Paladino's more memorable — and controversial — statements, dating all the way back to 2008, when the Buffalo businessman said the local school superintendent had been hired only because he was black.

If you are from a black Caribbean background, you are three times more likely to be permanently excluded from school than other children.

By Saturday afternoon, more than 5,700 people had signed an online petition calling for his removal from the school board in a diverse district where the majority of students are black.

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.»

The report also describes how the black / Latino schools are shortchanged in funding; teacher experience (the most experienced teachers move to the more affluent schools as soon as possible.)

Back in the 1950s I attended a school more than 30 % black.

EMERSON HILL — Officials cut the ribbon on a $ 13 million building dedicated to performing arts at Susan E. Wagner High School with a black box theater, practice spaces and more.

«Increased freedoms for schools have also resulted in heightened concerns about widening racial disparities affecting BME pupils, with black Caribbean pupils being three times more likely to be excluded from schools comparted to white pupils.

I hope that funds from the proposal are concentrated more in those districts where the fewest students have access to the type of gifted and talented programs that feed into the specialized high schools,» said Carole Brown, member of Stuyvesant Black Alumni Diversity Initiative, Stuyvesant High School Class of 1981, Fordham University» 85, Columbia University «90.

Loeb's donations to Gov. Cuomo and other New York Democrats and Republicans have come under scrutiny since last week because of a since - deleted Facebook post accusing Stewart - Cousins, who is black, of having done «more damage to people of color than anyone who has ever donned a hood» by supporting public teacher unions over charter schools.

CITY HALL — Cathie Black's opponents are vowing to continue their fight against New York City's incoming schools chancellor, threatening lawsuits and more rallies, despite Black's insistence that the deal is done.

More than 15 protesters dressed in black essentially shut down the meeting from the start, each taking turns reading statements or comments in opposition to Paladino — while School Board members debated whether to walk away, call the police or try to talk over them.

Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza, who joined the city school system this month, fanned the flames Friday by retweeting a news story on the meeting headlined: «Watch: Wealthy white Manhattan parents angrily rant against plan to bring more black kids to their schools.Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza, who joined the city school system this month, fanned the flames Friday by retweeting a news story on the meeting headlined: «Watch: Wealthy white Manhattan parents angrily rant against plan to bring more black kids to their schools.schools.»

The meeting, at Brooklyn Technical High School, lasted more than six hours Tuesday night into early Wednesday as about 300 people spoke, some of them screaming and taunting Ms. Black until she could not take it any longer.

«Despite years of effort Blacks and Latinos continue to have higher unemployment rate, lower school graduation rates, and suffer more police brutality,» White said.

Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza ignited the first controversy of his tenure early Friday when he tweeted out a story with the headline «Wealthy white Manhattan parents angrily rant against plan to bring more black kids to their schools.Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza ignited the first controversy of his tenure early Friday when he tweeted out a story with the headline «Wealthy white Manhattan parents angrily rant against plan to bring more black kids to their schools.schools.»

«The union's rejection of this resolution - which called for more black teachers in schools, an end to discriminatory discipline policies and more diversity in the curriculum — only impedes the school system's progress towards racial justice,» they wrote.

You mean to tell me that you were on the school board and on the County Legislature where you were a proxy for many of the racists in Westchester that relocated all of the poor blacks from «Lilly White» areas to Mount Vernon in exchanged for kickbacks, but now that you can no longer trade favors, your «friends» have no more use for you?

Brooklyn Tech Alumni Foundation President Larry Cary said he supports the state lawmakers» move to bring more black and Hispanic kids to elite high schools.

Black takes over as schools chancellor having already dodged one bullet: The severe winter storm that came during the Christmas break, so she did not have to decide whether to declare one or more snow days.

The caller was referring to Carranza's tweeting out a story with the headline, «Wealthy white Manhattan parents angrily rant against plan to bring more black kids to their schools.»

There were schools of the usual black fish — but these had green tails — and there were also a few more colorful species.

Black students in the study who participated in MESA in the fall of their freshman year were more likely to take one or more Advanced Placement (AP) classes in a STEM subject later on in high school.

I was well prepared for graduate study in bioengineering at the University of California, San Diego, by the historically black colleges and universities in the Atlanta University Center (AUC, consisting of Clark Atlanta University, Spelman, Morehouse, and Morris Brown Colleges), as well as by Georgia Tech, an institution that graduates more minority engineers than most other engineering schools because of its participation in the dual - degree engineering program, a partnership with minority - serving institutions.