Sentences with phrase «nearby white schools»

They targetted the segregationist policies of CPS superintendent Ben Willis, under which students in black schools were crammed into classrooms and mobile units and taught in split shits, while nearby white schools had empty classrooms.

Plaintiffs in the case argued that their school facilities were severely under - resourced compared to nearby white schools, and experts testified on the negative impact segregation has on children's self - esteem.

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Carter is no stranger to high - school sports drama, helming the 2005 inspirational basketball flick, Coach Carter (which is set in nearby Richmond, CA), and even starting off his behind - the - scenes role by directing several episodes of the high - school basketball TV show he appeared in as a regular cast member, «The White Shadow».

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.

Three years ago, while sampling soil invertebrates with staff from the Appalachian Highlands Science Learning Center, at Great Smoky Mountains National Park, high school students from a nearby Cherokee reservation spotted a tiny purple bug with white antenna that had been eluding scientists for years.

Myers, who is not a member of Pillar of Fire, said Eden Grove, which once had a mainly white student body, draws children almost exclusively from the nearby neighborhood — in part, because the transportation schedule that Cincinnati Public Schools offers isn't convenient for students living farther away.

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.

But to really understand the disparities in how schools help teachers learn to integrate classroom technology, it helps to compare a district like South Fayette, where 80 percent of students are white and just 13 percent are poor, to a district like nearby Sto - Rox, which is 33 percent white and 77 percent poor.

The city wants to redraw the zones in a way that would send kids from this predominantly white school to a nearby school where enrollment is over 90 percent black and Hispanic and which draws many of its students from a public housing project.

Local officials worked with the Virginia General Assembly to create a «tuition grant» program that allocated vouchers for white students to attend segregated private schools or other nearby public schools.

Sarah Roberts» family sends her to a nearby school, filled with white children.

Discover each of our six sparkling pools — featuring two rip - roaring water slides, a white sand beach, lap lanes and luxurious private cabanas — or venture off property nearby to enjoy inspiring hot air balloon rides, kayaking, exhilarating horseback riding, desert jeep tours, Bondurant racing school, wildflower walks, scenic hiking, magnificent museums, share - worthy sunsets and so much more!

Finally our pedestrian car accident attorneys in our main office in White Plains, and our branch offices in New York and Stamford, will fight to hold the offending driver accountable if the accident occurred in an area where he knew, or should have known, there was an increased likelihood of coming into contact with small children in the road (because of nearby schools, parks or playgrounds).