Sentences with phrase «more students of color»

These lower standards would undoubtedly leave many more students of color unprepared to successfully compete in a global economy after high school graduation.

The division has prompted complaints about systemic discrimination and even lawsuits, and driven districts around the country to experiment with ways to include more students of color in gifted education.

As a result, many more students of color would be likely to attend schools with inadequate resources, ineffective teachers, and larger class sizes in the early grades.

«But,» he writes, «schools serving more students of color are less likely to offer advanced courses and gifted and talented programs than schools serving mostly white populations, and students of color are less likely than their white peers to be enrolled in those courses and programs within schools that have those offerings.»

Wright is an advocate for getting more students of color and women to consider careers in ocean sciences.

By exploring districts» racial makeups, we see that across the board, Illinois has historically funded student groups in majority - White school districts better than their peers in districts with more students of color.

«The ones that have a few more students of color get lower funding than the ones that are 100 percent or 95 percent white,» he told The Atlantic.

The undersigned organizations stand together today to call for an end to the extreme and ineffective school disciplinary practices that are putting more and more students of color on a path to prison.

RePublic currently runs Nashville Academy of Computer Science, and it's their mission to have more students of color take and pass the AP Computer Science exam.

Faculty are excited about boosting the pipeline into the profession, bringing more students of color into their preparation programs, and building a more robust induction program for novice teachers.

The generation of young people being educated in today's public schools has never been more diverse, with our schools serving more students of color, students with disabilities and English - language learners.

Since the passage of NCLB, racial disparities in school discipline have become more extreme, with more students of color being suspended or expelled relative to their white peers.

This is good news for a district that has seen the percentage of low - income students reach 50 percent and now enrolls more students of color than whites.

Myers - Wilkins is the district's only such school, designated by the state for having more students of color than white students.

By contrast, only 5 percent of white students attended schools where enrollment was 75 percent or more students of color.

A federal report found that 57 percent of black students and 60 percent of Hispanic students were enrolled in public elementary and secondary schools in which enrollment was 75 percent or more students of color.

And because teacher salaries make up about 60 percent or so of the typical district's budget, these data demonstrate some fairly hefty gaps in spending between schools that serve more students of color and those that serve fewer such students.

Over half of the state's unfilled teacher positions are in bilingual and Special Education, meaning English learners and students with special needs are less likely to have the supports they need, especially if they live in under - resourced districts with more low - income students or more students of color.

Your school does not assign students based on parental request, but parents are pressuring you to do so as school demographics continue to show more students in poverty and more students of color.