Sentences with phrase «nonwhite district»

It should give people pause when two white suburban legislators propose having a white county executive appoint a «commissioner» to be able to pluck schools away from the democratically elected school board of an overwhelmingly nonwhite district.

Like Alcantara, Hamilton represents a largely nonwhite district with a significant stock of rent - regulated apartments.

Ms. Clarke, Ms. Velazquez and Mr. Meeks all represent majority nonwhite districts containing a politically active religious Jewish minority population.

All three were characterized as resegregating nonwhite districts.

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It has entirely closed the graduation - rate gap between white and minority students, even as the percentage of nonwhite students in the district has doubled to 84 percent and the percentage of students who receive free and reduced - price school meals has climbed over 30 percentage points to 74 percent.

Nationally, charter schools are 52 percent nonwhite while district schools are 41 percent nonwhite, suggesting that on the whole charters are serving traditionally underserved populations.

Boston's charter schools also serve a high proportion of black students, even relative to the majority nonwhite BPS district.

The Seattle school district classifies children as white or nonwhite; the Jefferson County school district as black or «other.»

School districts representing every region of the nation have transitioned to majority nonwhite in recent years, but the nature of the demographic shifts varies community to community.

To achieve this vision, combined state, district, and school efforts must close significant and persistent achievement gaps, which occur when one student group statistically outperforms another.18 However, data from international, national, and state - level sources all confirm that nonwhite, disabled, poor, and non-English-speaking students perform more poorly than their peers outside of these groups.19

School district leaders and state education chiefs have been trying to figure this out for years now, especially because research shows that having a teacher from similar demographic backgrounds has social and academic benefits for students, most of whom are nonwhite.

Representation in administration is much higher: In the fall of 2014, the district reported that 36 percent of principals and 58 percent of assistant principals and deans were nonwhite, falling today to 33 percent and 50 percent, respectively, in state figures.