Sentences with phrase «nonwhite population»

Some 70 percent of black students who attend charter schools attend «intensely segregated» schools — that is, schools with a nonwhite population greater than 90 percent.

It was easier to do in schools with a diverse nonwhite population, and in neighborhoods that were further along in the gentrification process, where the battle over who it belongs to isn't as raw.

The typical school at risk of receiving a Low - Performing rating was large and had a majority nonwhite population, with many students who had previously failed an 8th - grade exam.

Remember that this is in a state where the nonwhite population has reached 50 % and is rapidly growing.

But this is a goal of which the postmodern system of punitive policing and imprisoning of large segments of the nonwhite population seems to have despaired.

Opinion polls indicate that the share of the nonwhite population holding (moderately) center - right policy views is significantly larger than the share that voted for Romney.

Because the nonwhite populations have historically been small and there is a general white attitude that the state is progressive and has done enough, the issues are often ignored.»

The data reveals a cultural divide among three regions in the U.S.: cities and suburbs, rural areas, and the extended Black Belt, an area extending from the Mississippi River along the Eastern Seaboard and up to Washington as well as locations with large nonwhite populations.

Not exact matches

Nonwhites are also somewhat under - represented in relation to their numbers in the actual population.

Meanwhile, the growing numbers of nonwhites have moved to the center of the Democratic coalition, joined, at least for the moment, by the expanding secular population.

The overall minority population includes all nonwhites and Hispanics, some of whom identified themselves as white.

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

According to the U.S. Department of Education, about 50 percent of the public school student population is nonwhite (a percentage that's expected to increase for years to come).

Research (by Irenee Beattie, Josipa Roksa, and Richard Arum) that examined appellate court cases from 2000 to 2002 found that, on average, those cases emerged from secondary schools with 29 percent nonwhite students compared to 37 percent nonwhite students in the national population of secondary schools (the latter weighted for enrollment size to be comparable to the court case data); appellate cases also emanated from schools with more educational resources per student (student / teacher ratios of 16.3 compared to 17.5 nationally).

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.

Growth in the Hispanic population is expected to propel the trend of a rising share of nonwhite students through the next decade.

And as the student population continues to grow more racially, ethnically, and linguistically diverse, the teacher workforce remains overwhelmingly white.3 Research shows, however, that students of color benefit from having teachers with whom they share the same race or ethnicity, 4 and white students benefit from having nonwhite teachers as well.5 In order to increase the number of teacher candidates of color enrolling in and graduating from teacher preparation programs, several states are developing initiatives to intentionally recruit high - achieving people of color into the teaching profession.

However, as their student populations diversified, some states saw stagnation or decreases in their percentages of nonwhite teachers.