Sentences with phrase «mostly white schools»

Among white students in mostly white schools, that rate is 33 percent.

Mostly white schools (90 percent or more white) spent $ 733 more per student than mostly nonwhite schools (90 percent or more nonwhite)

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Opponents of the referendum bristle over the allegation that some parents just want to keep their kids in mostly white schools.

Indeed, after controlling for poverty, urbanism, school size and other factors, «heavily minority schools actually offer more AP courses than mostly white schools.»

Sherman Alexie's humorous, semiautobiographical novel follows 14 - year - old Junior as he leaves his school on the Spokane Indian Reservation for a mostly white school in a nearby town.

Perhaps it was Schaefer's public dispute with the city's first black superintendent, which became an intensely racial conflict between community activists and the mostly white school board, that sensitized him to the political costs of becoming too deeply engaged in school affairs.

Madison schools are dominated by white staff, and the mostly white School Board and teachers union have a generally dim view of charter and voucher schools and anything else that veers too far from the traditional (white - dominated) model of Madison public education — even as that model has long been plagued by racial achievement gaps.

Stoneman Douglas is a mostly white school in a mostly upper - middle - class area.

Not exact matches

A 2016 SurveyMonkey Intelligence report found that Uber's U.S. drivers are mostly male, white, high - school graduates between the ages of 30 and 49 who make less than $ 50,000 per year.

As far as I know, President Obama is still a member of the United Church of Christ — a progressive, mostly white, mainline Protestant Christian denomination with a rich American history that includes, among many others, the Pilgrims and Congregationalists of New England and many African - American churches, schools and colleges established in the south after the Civil War.

Last week, at his graduation from Breckinridge County High School in Hardinsburg, he was voted the Rotary Club's Citizenship Award by his mostly white schoolmates.

Highlights include establishment of a trail system that is mostly wheelchair accessible; programs reaching out to 40 schools and 230,000 residents within a two - mile radius; and, in partnership with the city of Boston, creation of the George Robert White Environmental Conservation Center, which models environmentally sound building practices.

When Mr. King first walked onto the stage in the Eastport - South Manor High School auditorium, he was greeted with a large portion of the 1,000 - person crowd, mostly teachers, quietly holding up green and white signs that read, «We are all more than a score.»

«We think of a healthy microbiome as being Lactobacillus dominant — that's what we are taught in medical school — but those studies are mostly based on white women in developed countries.

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.

But there's a problem: Once changes at a school are underway, how can they be stopped from turning the building into an affluent, white enclave — especially if the surrounding neighborhood becomes mostly affluent and white?

Mostly affluent and white, the 350 students who attend his schools have histories of drug abuse, drinking, violence, prostitution, and attempted suicide, among other problems.

At some D.C. elementary schools, rather than settling into a healthy racial and socioeconomic balance, student populations are flipping from one extreme to the other, with fourth - grade classes dominated by minorities and preschool classes that are mostly white.

«My analysis looks at two high school English teachers — one at an elite private school serving mostly economically advantaged white students, and one at a public charter school serving largely low - SES students of color.

At these rapidly changing schools, mostly white, middle - and upper - middle - class families are pushing out poor or working - class «out of boundary» minority families.

Hamilton County merged with the Chattanooga district in 1997; while Hamilton County schools are suburban with a mostly white population, the Chattanooga schools are urban with a high minority enrollment.

Precocious 5 - year - olds, both are admitted to New York City's prestigious, mostly white, Dalton School.

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.

When this study began, the school system enrolled mostly black children, with so few whites that their presence in the sample was expanded to permit meaningful comparisons between black and white.

Journalist Patrick McCloskey spent the 1999 — 00 school year embedded at Rice High School, an all - boys school in Harlem whose initially white student body had long since been replaced by the predominantly African American (and mostly non-Catholic) young men it serves school year embedded at Rice High School, an all - boys school in Harlem whose initially white student body had long since been replaced by the predominantly African American (and mostly non-Catholic) young men it serves School, an all - boys school in Harlem whose initially white student body had long since been replaced by the predominantly African American (and mostly non-Catholic) young men it serves school in Harlem whose initially white student body had long since been replaced by the predominantly African American (and mostly non-Catholic) young men it serves today.

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.

But to capitalize on this opportunity, urban schools that currently serve a predominantly poor and minority population must find a way to attract and retain the gentrifiers — mostly white, upper - middle - class, highly educated parents.

So if a district has two high schools — one serving mostly affluent white students and another serving mostly poor and minority students — those schools had better offer a similar number of AP courses, lest the OCR come knocking on their doors.

, Bamberger spent the 2002 — 03 school year tracking students and teachers at his alma mater, Pennsbury High School, a nonselective school in Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania, a small, mostly white working - class town eight miles southwest of Trenton, New Jschool year tracking students and teachers at his alma mater, Pennsbury High School, a nonselective school in Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania, a small, mostly white working - class town eight miles southwest of Trenton, New JSchool, a nonselective school in Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania, a small, mostly white working - class town eight miles southwest of Trenton, New Jschool in Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania, a small, mostly white working - class town eight miles southwest of Trenton, New Jersey.

The adopted son of two postal workers, Williams, 52, graduated from Loyola, a Catholic, mostly white high school in Los Angeles, before serving in the Air Force and earning undergraduate, law, and public policy degrees from Yale and Harvard.

Each chapter narrates one episode in the American history of teaching: how teaching became a feminized profession; initial movements toward the unionization of teaching; early teaching in segregated black schools; McCarthy - era attacks on teachers for their politics; conflicts between (mostly white) teachers and (mostly black and Latino) local control advocates; and then on through A Nation at Risk, No Child Left Behind, and Race to the Top.

Kozol points out that the wealthiest suburban school districts surrounding New York City, for example, spend more per pupil to educate their mostly white student bodies than the city spends to educate its mostly minority population.

However, in combination the various chapters confirm what most observers of charter schools already know: that charter schools serve different demographic groups depending on where they are located, are disproportionately located in low - income and minority areas in big cities and in those places serve mostly low - income and African American families — but, in some states, also exist in suburban areas where they serve predominantly white populations.

It was my understanding that the report talked about the growing disparities, preparationally and economically... [between schools with mostly minority students and those with mostly white students].

A new study shows just how thin the course offerings can be at some schools serving mostly students of color in comparison to the curricula at nearby, white - majority schools.

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

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 populschool 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 populSchool 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 populschool, only to have that school rezoned to include an affluent, predominantly white populschool rezoned to include an affluent, predominantly white population.

«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.»

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 American high school, once an austere brick building serving a few hundred children, mostly white boys, who studied reading, writing, and arithmetic, has grown into a sprawling mall complex for thousands of boys and girls, of various ethnic groups, offering something — from algebra to band and basketball — for everyone.

I watch higher - income parents, mostly white, buy their way into high - performing suburban districts while demanding a «moratorium» on public charters in order to deny the school choice they exercise to low - income families, primarily of color.

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 wWhite 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 whitewhite.

Meanwhile, the local teachers» union and black community leaders organized a drive to reclaim «our schools» from the mostly white Legislature in Lansing.

Majority white charter schools have very low, mostly statistically insignificant discipline rates.

Local charter schools that serve mostly white students have nearly non-existent discipline rates.

The geographic area the school serves is 5 percent Hispanic and 93 percent white, but the white children are mostly Orthodox Jews, who overwhelmingly attend yeshivas.

The public school system has mostly failed to provide those urban minority communities with the same quality of educational opportunities as their white peers, and in the early 90s policy leaders of both parties said enough was enough and began to support the charter school concept: public schools that would be independent from school district bureaucracies, free to innovate and more accountable for results.

Many of these so - called «gentrifiers» grew up in mostly - or all - white suburbs and attended predominantly white schools.

The research seems to indicate, says Tuck, that if schools in the poorest, mostly white districts are better resourced than even schools in the wealthiest, high - minority districts, there would seem to be factors beyond funding formulas and district property taxes in play.