Sentences with phrase «mostly minority children»

Due to a waiting list, three - year - olds, mostly minority children, were randomly assigned to Montessori or other preschools.

In its historic Zelman v. Simmons - Harris [xlviii] decision, the high Court upheld an Ohio voucher program that saved thousands of poor and mostly minority children from Cleveland's dismal public schools.

«We are very disappointed that the union will continue its effort to evict more than 90,000 poor, mostly minority children from schools that are working for them.

Student performance in charter schools was significantly lower than regular nearby schools in just five states with about 30 percent of national charter enrollment, mostly minority children from poor families.

Miller said he is hopeful the new bill can be «the best of both worlds,» giving states more power, but still protecting the civil rights of poor, mostly minority children.

Like Katz's, his school, KIPP DREAM Prep, a charter elementary school in Houston, Texas, enrolls mostly minority children, 96 percent of whom qualify for subsidized lunch.

«We do not want Paul Ryan in our city visiting a school on Malcolm X Boulevard, a school with mostly minority children, to have a photo op,» Becker said.

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In June 2012, CDC awarded a 3 - year cooperative agreement to the National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality to assist 89 hospitals, mostly located in states that have lower breastfeeding rates and that serve low - income and minority women, with improving maternity care practices to support breastfeeding and to move toward the Baby - Friendly designation.

In at least 20 states, lawmakers have stripped locally elected school board members of their power in impoverished, mostly minority communities, leaving parents without a voice — or a vote — in their children's education, according to a News21 state - by - state analysis of school takeovers.

The success of high - quality charter schools serving mostly - minority children in those urban communities (where the schools tend to also be segregated thanks to pernicious zip code education policies) also proves lie to the idea of integration as school reform.

We are up to our ears with a district in crisis and trying to right the ship for the mostly minority, low income children who are our responsibility.