Sentences with phrase «mostly black students»

Parents from San Francisco's Bayview neighborhood gathered around school cafeteria tables and listened as administrators delivered a hopeful message: Their children, who all attend Charles R. Drew Preparatory Academy, one of the city's few schools serving mostly black students, were already on track to do better on next year's state tests.

JPS as a whole is rated «F.» Like the 18 other failing school districts in the state, it serves mostly black students.

Most Connecticut charter schools are highly segregated by race (mostly Black students).

Northern had gone from being predominantly white and high performing to having mostly black students and poor academic results — three quarters of the sophomore and senior classes scored below the national average on math, science, and reading tests.

The fact that charter schools are racially segregated (mostly Black students), have punitive disciplinary policies, and siphon funds away from public schools to privately - managed charter schools were among the reasons for a charter school moratorium.

The irony was lost on DOJ that they were using a desegregation order in an attempt to keep black students in mostly black schools and prevent them from attending other schools that may not enroll mostly black students.

A recent study noted that parents whose children attend schools with mostly white students are much more likely to rate their child's school as excellent: 61 percent of Black parents whose child attends a school with mostly white students rate their child's school as excellent, compared to only 14 percent of Black parents whose child attends a school with mostly Black students.

Since most of the students using vouchers are black, it is, as State Education Superintendent John White pointed out to the New Orleans Times - Picayune, «a little ridiculous» to argue that the departure of mostly black students to voucher schools would make their home school systems less white.

Tyler's mostly black student body has diversified to include more white, Latino and Asian students drawn to the dual - language program.

Not exact matches

Bob Lenz is the co-founder of the Envision Schools network of charters, which has made project - based learning the central pedagogical strategy in its four schools in the San Francisco Bay Area, all of which serve mostly low - income black and Latino students.

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Roughly 8,500 students, most of them black and Latino, attend the public schools in East Ramapo, while another 23,000 students in the district attend private schools, mostly yeshivas.

The 100,000 - student school district was previously comprised of mostly black and white students, but in the last decade, Jefferson County doubled in Latino student enrollments.

The course demands of my major (premed and zoology), coupled with the struggles to address deficiencies that were uncovered from my earlier «separate and unequal» education, gave me little time to socialize within the small, mostly commuting, black student community.

Nevertheless, over the Fall, confrontations continued to escalate, mostly a reign of terror on the part of white vigilantes, including an incident in which black students had to wrestle a white adult wielding a shotgun to the ground.

Each school educates the same mostly poor, mostly black and Hispanic students as entered the building in 1972.

For instance, Frederick Douglass Academy in Harlem, the Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical Center («the Met») in Providence, and the Oakland School for Social Justice and Community Development are all very different urban high schools that enroll mostly low - income black and Hispanic students.

To students like me, integration came to mean sending a small phalanx of mostly poor black and Latino children to attend schools in white neighborhoods.

We developed partner - ships with computer companies and design firms, which provided jobs for the mostly black and Latino students at the school.

The teachers in predominantly poor, minority schools, who are reportedly mostly black and have adopted the more teacher - centered, authoritarian style of instruction that they view as appropriate for their students, are turning off white, upper - middle - class parents who want school climates similar to their own progressive homes, where problems are discussed.

They would be concentrated in high - poverty communities, serving mostly black and Latino students, where the need was greatest.

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.

Whereas previously all students had attended racially mixed schools, after 2001 some schools ended up mostly black, others mostly white.

In addition, the plan to accept transfer students from low - income, predominantly black communities at mostly white suburban schools was, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported, «met with acrimony.»

The Alliance for College Ready Schools, whose 16 schools south and east of downtown mostly serve low - income black and Latino students, use a strict and structured adherence to state curriculum standards.

Black teachers comprise 7 percent of teachers in this country, with many teaching mostly Black and Latino students.

Over 50 percent [of students in charter schools] are from black and Latino households, mostly in inner cities.

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).

And the burden is being shouldered by mostly low - income, Black and Latino students.

Years ago, a science teacher at Boston's Greater Egleston Community High School, a high school situated in a low - income, mostly Latino and Black neighborhood, told her students that the neighborhood had some of the highest asthma rates in the city and state, and asked them to figure out why.

Success Academy is New York City's largest charter school network and serves mostly black and Hispanic students, who perform much better on state tests than the citywide averages.

The report, while focused mostly on Florida, suggests schools all over the country (again, possibly in TN) may be pushing low - performing students, many of whom are black, into «alternative schools,» as a way of preventing their low test scores and graduation rates from dragging down the average.

Thanks to the wording in the new federal education law, the Every Student Succeeds Act, these students, who are mostly black young men, don't need to be counted at all.

As my Choice Watch report (Cotto & Feder, 2014) demonstrated, charter schools in Connecticut tend to serve a relatively more advantaged group of (mostly) Black and Latinx children including fewer children with disabilities, emerging bilingual children, and children eligible for free and reduced priced meals compared to the students in local public schools in the same cities as the charter schools.

Black and brown students have a first row seat to the racial differences between them and their mostly white, less experienced teachers.

I realize now that part of the reason that I never felt pressed to attend, was because I had been privileged to work in school communities (mostly) that believed in me as a Black male educator, that were full of Black men choosing to show up excellent for the students that we served, and that supported my growth.

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.

Though it serves primarily poor, mostly black and Hispanic students, Success is a testing dynamo, outscoring schools in many wealthy suburbs, let alone their urban counterparts.

There are 478,000 students — mostly black and Hispanic — who are stuck on a path to failure, forced to attend the lowest performing schools.

Roughly 8,500 students, most of them black and Latino, attend the public schools in East Ramapo, while another 23,000 students in the district attend private schools, mostly yeshivas.

A strict focus on test preparation and behavior has helped the network, which serves mostly low - income and black and Hispanic students, to significantly outperform the city's public school students on state reading and math tests; however, critics charge that student attrition skews the results (2015).

, a school of mostly black, brown and poor students where nearly every student is reading at or above grade level.

He is in good company with charter school leaders like Lagra Newman, of Nashville's Purpose Preparatory Academy, a school of mostly black, brown and poor students where nearly every student is reading at or above grade level.

When states required all high school students, specifically those in schools mostly attended by African - American students, to take at least three math courses, black students were able to qualify for better paying jobs alongside their white counterparts.

The charter management schools charge fees at charter schools in the cities that serve mostly Black and some Latinx students.

Mary Jimenez, a junior at the school made up mostly of Latino, Black and Native American students, told the board that some of her peers have been afraid to come to school since the search.

Today, there are seventy magnet schools in Connecticut serving 31,689 students, 70 % of which are of minorities, mostly Black and Hispanic.

While I'm sure most of us didn't share the sentiment, we also didn't confront a harmful bias that could directly impact the mostly black and brown students of that school.

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.

An analysis of recent Education Department civil rights data by the nonprofit research group Child Trends found that 54 percent of black students in mostly black middle schools and high schools have school - based law enforcement or security officers.