Sentences with phrase «mostly black population»

By 1961, Baltimore schools had changed from an overwhelmingly white enrollment to a mostly black population and still had many segregated schools.

Not exact matches

For decades white people with money fled the city for the suburbs, leaving behind a mostly brown and black population that was often bereft of resources.

The 26 million or so blacks (the census is not terribly accurate about them, just as the American census is not very accurate about the Hispanic population) are tribally fragmented over a vast, mostly desert landscape.

«Detroit» depicts the violence and anger, triggered by heightened racial tensions, between the city's largely black population and mostly white police force.

50 percent of its student population is white, 37 percent is Latino (mostly from the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico), and 6 percent is black.

In recent months, the city's battle over school segregation has played out in a few specific schools in some of the its fastest - gentrifying (or already gentrified - to - saturation - point) neighborhoods: Nikole Hannah - Jones chronicled the Brooklyn version of the saga in her much - discussed New York Times Magazine piece last weekend, «Choosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City,» about her decision to send her black daughter to a mostly minority school, only to have that school rezoned to include an affluent, predominantly white population.

While KIPP serves a majority of black students, Hiawatha's student population — spread out at the elementary and middle school levels, with a new high school set to open in the fall of 2018 — is mostly Hispanic (89 percent of students).

But although its ranking improved and the math and English scores of black students rose, critics and researchers have pointed to the fact that the scores of white students — who make up about 85 percent of the state's student population — remained mostly stagnant on both NAEP and the ACT.

While this lack of proportional diversity exists in several professions, when your job focuses on leading a mostly black and Latino student population to succeed academically and socially in a predominantly white society, race matters so much more.