Sentences with phrase «mostly children of color»

Yes, Administrator Pruitt really did that when he decided not to ban the toxic pesticide chlorpyrifos, which affects the neurological development of children (mostly children of color).

The charter school, serving mostly children of color and students from low - income families, received one of the city's highest ratings for preschool quality.

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This epidemic affects mostly young children of color from low - income communities who live in poorly maintained housing, where windows, doors, walls and ceilings produce invisible lead dust that is ingested by infants and toddlers through hand - to - mouth behavior and inhalation.

My wardrobe features many of the swatch colors but they're mostly unworn although I naturally choose the Spring colors for my children and husband too.

But her attack on a proposed expansion of the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship suffers not only from a lack of sensitivity to the plight of desperately poor parents, mostly of color, who have their children on waiting lists.

«To me this means first acknowledging the work that community educators, mostly in communities of color, are doing to supplement the information our children receive about themselves, their histories, and the worlds in which we exist through schools and classrooms,» says Torres Covarrubias, citing as an example the work of her friend Patrisse Cullors - Brignac at Dignity and Power Now, an organization that helps people affected by the Prison Industrial Complex.

«To me this means first acknowledging the work that community educators, mostly in communities of color, are doing to supplement the information our children receive about themselves, their histories, and the worlds in which we...

Just as Trump's flunkies exert political pressure to halt access to healthcare (or immigration or policies to address climate change), so NJEA exerts political pressure — as well as its deep pockets — to stave off the continued enrollment of children, mostly poor and of color, in high - quality alternative public schools.

This orthodoxy has contributed mightily to the downfall of Buffalo's public schools and the destruction of hope for so many children, mostly low - income children of color.

As a result of these restrictions, thousands of children — mostly poor children and children of color — have been left behind.

Its garbled outlines and mostly dark colors yield two simplified heads facing in opposite directions, with a small figure in silhouette between them — the artist's originating triad of parents and child.

The sculptures on view also are mostly lackluster, including Annette Messager's stuffed child's pajama that's been stabbed with colored pencils and strung up by rope, or Anne Chu's drab, bare - bones renderings of a figure and a landscape.

The bright color screen works great for magazines, comics, and children's books, but all of the other tablet features are mostly a bonus.