Sentences with phrase «nonwhite school»

Compared with a decade ago, more black students — especially in the South and some Mid-Atlantic states — are attending majority - nonwhite schools, the report by the university's Civil Rights...

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

The United States spends $ 293 less per year on students in mostly nonwhite schools than on students in all other schools.

In the 2013 - 14 school year, 86 percent of the city's black pre-K students attended «racially isolated» nonwhite schools — the highest rate in the nation.

In spite of the dramatic suburbanization of nonwhite families, 80 % of Latino students and 74 % of black students attend majority nonwhite schools (50 - 100 % minority), and 43 % of Latinos and 38 % of blacks attend intensely segregated schools (those with only 0 - 10 % of whites students) across the nation.

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«When I was in film school, no one ever talked about lighting nonwhite people,» Berkofsky said in this essential piece from Mic.

Although we use «linguistic sweeteners and semantic somersaults» and call these schools «diverse,» the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University (now at UCLA) has documented that more than 2 million students, including more than a quarter of black students in the Northeast and Midwest, attend schools in which 99 to 100 percent of the students are nonwhite.

In contrast, Rank said, the risk of poverty for an individual between the ages of 25 - 29, who is nonwhite, not married, and with an education of high school or less, is «a whopping 72 percent.»

«Disparities are occurring as early as high school and therefore it is crucial to address alcohol and marijuana use early on, especially for nonwhite youth,» said Elizabeth D'Amico, lead author of the study and senior behavioral scientist at RAND.

Brashear petitions for two years to get into the diving school only to be foiled at every turn by a base commander (Hal Holbrook) who feels the only place in his Navy for a nonwhite, is as a cook.

Individual CMS schools vary widely in demographic composition: CMS high schools in 2003 ranged from less than 10 percent to close to 90 percent nonwhite, and were also dissimilar in average test scores and rates of high school graduation.

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.

Other researchers have found that white students in charter schools transferred from schools that, on average, had a higher proportion of nonwhite students than their new charter school.

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).

After interviewing more than 50 of these gentrifiers about their school - choice process, I concluded that it is the substantive differences in parenting styles between the white, upper - middle - class parents and the nonwhite, less - affluent parents that are hindering school integration, as these parenting styles directly affect school culture and expectations.

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).

They were put off by near - constant yelling — from principals, teachers, school aides, and nonwhite parents who come to drop off and pick up their kids.

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.

The cultural differences between the newcomers and the old - timers in gentrifying neighborhoods can be easily, though inadequately, summarized: white, upper - middle - class families prefer a progressive and discursive style of interaction with their children, both at home and in school, and lower - income, nonwhite families prefer a traditional or authoritarian style of interaction with their children in these same venues.

As Meredith recounts with both humor and horror, some of the nonwhite families in the school responded to the lunchroom volunteer proposal with, «How do we know who is coming into the school?

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.

In the School Rights Project, we found that white students were nearly twice as likely as nonwhite students to report having pursued a formal legal remedy for a perceived rights violation.

These characteristics include, in addition to a variety of measures of student achievement as of 1996, the percentages of students in the school that are eligible for free school meals, those who are nonwhite, and those with special educational needs; the pupil - teacher ratio and the number of students enrolled; whether the school is all girls, all boys, a religious school, or in London; and several measures of the qualifications of the teaching staff.

Seventy percent of parents say they'd prefer to have their child in a racially diverse school, including equal numbers of whites and nonwhites.

Nonwhites split evenly on vouchers when only private schools are mentioned but oppose them by a 27 - point margin when religious schools are included.

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

«The term «racial imbalance» refers to a ratio between nonwhite and other students in public schools which is sharply out of balance with the racial composition of the society in which nonwhite children study, serve and work.

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

If a racially diverse school is farther away, 57 % say they'd prefer to send their child to a closer but less diverse school; 61 % of whites say so, as do 52 % of nonwhites.

While the introduction of choice affected all public high school students, most of the school closings and openings were concentrated in low - income, nonwhite areas of the Bronx and Brooklyn.

«The racial imbalance act requires the school committee of every municipality annually to submit statistics showing the percentage of nonwhite pupils in all public schools and in each school.

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.

Moreover, all students — rich or poor, white and nonwhite alike — miss out on the substantial benefits of learning in richly diverse classrooms.9 As the research shows, students across the spectrum are better prepared for post-secondary success when they have been educated in diverse schools and have learned alongside peers who come from all walks of life.10

Mitchell suggests that while the pool of qualified and committed teachers of color is increasing, these same teachers are leaving the profession at higher rates than white teachers, drawing upon research findings that «many nonwhite educators feel voiceless and incapable of effecting change in their schools.»

The report asserts that while «choice» measures and the rise of charter schools were meant to better integrate the state's schools, the opposite occurred, and in a 12 - year span, Minneapolis schools jumped from 34 percent nonwhite to 59 percent nonwhite.

(One of the schools at the center of the story is majority nonwhite.)

However, since 2014, the majority of public school students have been nonwhite, and public schools continue to serve a growing number of low - income students — who are significantly students of color — as well.

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.

Almost half of all kindergarteners through high school seniors in America are now nonwhite, the U.S. Department of Education says, and a quarter are Hispanic, without a private or Catholic school - going tradition.

But only around 6 percent of school superintendents are nonwhite, and roughly 25 percent are women.

In Texas schools serving 90 percent or more nonwhite students, per - pupil spending is $ 514 less than at all other schools, and $ 911 less than at schools serving 90 percent or more white students

In California schools serving 90 percent or more nonwhite students, per - pupil spending is $ 191 less than at all other schools, and $ 4,380 less than at schools serving 90 percent or more white students

Research shows that the reliance on punitive school discipline like suspensions, expulsions, and school arrests — «school pushout» — deprives students of learning time and takes the greatest toll on nonwhite students, students with disabilities, LGBT youth and other vulnerable student groups.

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

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.

The time is fast approaching when nonwhite students will be the majority of public school students.

A radical change in city demographics was taking place — in the early 1970s, Minneapolis was just 14 percent nonwhite, but by 1995 the Minneapolis Public Schools student body was majority minority.

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.

Just over one - quarter of the hires were nonwhite for the 2014 - 15 school year, according to that last presentation to the School Commschool year, according to that last presentation to the School CommSchool Committee.