Sentences with phrase «nonwhite students»

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.

See Infographics A graphical look at the growth of nonwhite students in the nation and select districts.

Meanwhile, progress for nonwhite students has slowed after rapid gains during the 1970s and 1980s, when schools were more integrated.

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

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

CAP analysis found that California has the largest gap — 40 percentage points — between nonwhite students and teachers.

Other states with large percentages of nonwhite students also fare poorly in the analysis.

Yet many states» school finance systems have historically failed to direct adequate resources to schools that primarily serve poor nonwhite students.

«LDA of N.C. believes as a result of these changes proposed and implemented by the N.C. Department of Public Instruction and adopted by the State Board of Education, nonwhite students with disabilities in low - performing schools will be discriminated against and their civil rights violated,» Barnes wrote to the federal office.

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.

The effects of segregation were so ugly that in 1998, then — Schools Superintendent David Hornbeck filed a federal civil - rights lawsuit contending that state funding discriminated against nonwhite students.

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

Students attending rural schools generally graduate in four years at higher rates than the national average, but that's not true for black, Hispanic and other nonwhite students in rural areas, according to a report from the Rural School and Community Trust.

Graylan Hagler, a candidate for D.C. Council who attended the speech, challenged Henderson's record of progress, pointing to the continued low test scores for nonwhite 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

For the purpose of this section, racial imbalance shall be deemed to exist when the per cent of nonwhite students in any public school is in excess of fifty per cent of the total number of students in such school.»»

It ranks fourth in the nation in the number of bachelor's and master's degrees awarded to nonwhite students in nursing, and awards 11 percent of bachelor's and master's degrees for teachers of technology, math, engineering, and science.

Research into «stereotype anxiety,» which some scholars posit may hinder the academic performance of some nonwhite students.

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.

The exercise aims to explain the daily struggles of nonwhite students, and the pushback does nt come from a place of hate, but one of ignorance or even arrogance.

During the past two decades, the percentage of nonwhite students has more than doubled, from roughly 20 percent in 1980 to slightly more than 50 percent in 2002.

He also pointed out that University of Virginia researchers studying first - grade classrooms found low - income and nonwhite students were more likely to be in «lower overall quality classrooms» (which isn't quite the same thing as having lousier teachers).

New York City has a disproportionate share of nonwhite students (86 percent versus 55 percent statewide), ELL students (14 percent versus 8 percent), and disadvantaged students (73 percent versus 54 percent).

And since a majority of the state's high - poverty schools, and schools serving the highest concentrations of nonwhite students are located in CPS, this compounds the funding inequities.

Of the 19 states with more recent data, all states saw an increase in their nonwhite student populations.

Again, nonwhite students and white students are separated by fairly arbitrary school district boundaries.

To obtain that figure, we subtracted the percentage of nonwhite teachers — 20 percent — from the percentage of nonwhite students — 57 percent — in the state.

This index ranks states on the percentage - point difference between the percentages of nonwhite teachers and nonwhite students.

«Though OCR may claim to be under - funded, its resources are stretched thin largely because it has so often chosen to address violations it has made up out of thin air,» the pair wrote, citing as prime examples efforts to curb bullying, to reduce differences in how white and nonwhite students are disciplined and to get colleges to step up sexual assault investigations.

The authors find that the percentage of nonwhite students has continued to increase, while the percentage of diverse teachers has remained stagnant or has fallen.