Sentences with phrase «of minority children»

Do targeted recruitment programs, designed to increase the numbers of minority foster and adoptive parents, result in decreased numbers of minority children in the child welfare system?

This was a hard - hitting look at the impact of poverty upon the education of minority children.

Yet we have schools with the highest number of minority children, with the highest rates of poverty, and with the lowest college readiness rates, with the most undesirable teachers.

The prior work mostly has been limited to reporting on the relative proportions of minority children in the general school age and special education populations.

But parents of minority children have been having this talk for generations.

This movement is essentially rejecting all objective measures of educational achievement and, subsequently, lets children, including a disproportionate number of minority children, fall through the cracks.

Racial differences in the length of stay in foster care and types of placements may also account for over-representation of minority children in out - of - home care.

To flag supposed racial bias in special - education placement, the United States Department of Education is thinking of adopting a single standard for all states of what is an allowable amount of overrepresentation of minority children.

Results of Studies Evaluating Interventions to Reduce Disparities in the Health and Health Care of Minority Children

When large percentages of minority children do not complete high school and almost half of those in urban districts can not read at grade level, the lucky few who fit into the «diversity» quotas for higher education are insignificant in number compared to those condemned to permanent second class status by failing schools.

Two of the three dissenting justices in both decisions, Goodwin Liu and Mariano - Florentino Cuéllar, were ardent advocates for the rights of minority children as law professors before Gov. Jerry Brown nominated them to the court.

The researchers hope that more studies of minority children and asthma will follow — as it stands, there are too few other studies of nonwhite children to make it possible to replicate the study's findings in an independent group of patients, despite the collaboration of eight universities and 13 individual laboratories involved in the TOPMed consortium.

Bempechat's well - written book takes a fresh look at vital questions about the academic achievement of minority children.

Millions of minority children struggle when saddled with teachers who lack faith in them and don't push them to excel, and with counselors who steer them down the wrong path, and with test results that misconstrue their ability and potential.

If you want to know why the NAACP has become irrelevant to the lives of African - Americans, this typical display of moral indifference to the plight of minority children is Exhibit A.

Because a movement that proclaims to work to build brighter futures for all children can not tolerate associations with politicians who think lowly of minority children and the families who love them.

Not only does this describe an uphill battle, but it serves to illustrate the puzzling priorities we often emphasize — one half of minority children don't complete high school, over one half of third graders can not read at grade level, and our policy and media attention are focused on affirmative action to achieve diversity in admissions as a compelling objective at our two flagship universities!

With OSEP funding, the National Research Council at the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is undertaking a two - year study of the representation of minority children in special education and gifted and talented programs.

The he states, «I am filing this complaint on behalf of all minority children in the Lakewood public schools.»

Not only is the disproportionate placement of minority children prima facie case of discrimination but the diversion of funds from the normal school budget to educate a select white population has a detrimental effect on the services being provided to the minority children that remain in the school district.

(a) Promote and advance equal educational opportunities for Hispanic children by Council members becoming actively engaged in national dialogue on educational problems, issues and concerns in conjunction with the National School Boards Association and other national organizations committed to the continued growth and development of minority children.

In addition, the treatment group consisted of minority children who graduated from CPC preschool and kindergarten programs, while the control group is comprised of kindergarten students who participated in other pre-K and kindergarten programs.

Having no concern about the rights of the minority children disparately affected by the archaic last - in, first out statute, UTLA was thrilled.

As an author and television journalist, Cheryl Wills ventured into the nation's largest public school system after years of reporting on thousands of tragic news stories surrounding the killings of minority children whose lives were cut short before graduating from High School in New York City.

Do staff characteristics influence the trajectories of minority children in the child welfare system?

Family structure also appears to play a role in the reunification of minority children with their biological parents.

Differential exit rates of minority children in foster care.

Findings indicate that the child welfare community is not only aware of over-representation of minority children in the system but is very concerned about it.

For Albany — and more importantly for Rockland — time is running out on the option of a constitutional solution to this unique situation concerning the education of minority children in East Ramapo.

In multiple sites, and on multiple occasions, child welfare personnel suggested that the over-reporting of minority families to the child welfare system contributed to the overrepresentation of minority children.

Results of Studies Evaluating Interventions to Reduce Disparities in the Health and Health Care of Minority Children

He previously showed that in comparison to white children, a higher percentage of minority children are not helped by inhaled asthma rescue medicines, called beta - agonists, used to rapidly re-open airways during asthma episodes.

National Research and Assessment of Disproportionality: Racial Equity Strategies, Tools, and Programs (PDF - 274 KB) Black Administrators in Child Welfare & Casey Family Programs (2008) Discusses strategies, tools, and programs used in nine States to prevent and reduce the number of minority children in out - of - home care.

There are three dominant theories explaining the over-representation of minority children in the child welfare system: 1) the disproportionate need found among minority families; 2) racial bias in child welfare decision making; and 3) family risk and child welfare practice.

Educators in the 61,000 - student district must now grapple with a tough question: How will they ensure the integration and education of minority children...

I suspect Alicia Rucker, that single mother of six who sent her oldest child to (and through) Georgetown, knows more about improving the education of minority children than all the Educrats in D.C. combined.

There is considerable controversy in the literature regarding the impact of transracial placement on the well being of minority children.

Across all sites, an overwhelming majority of participants at all levels cited poverty, and poverty - related circumstances, as primary reasons for the over-representation of minority children in the child welfare system.

What else do you think is important to consider in reducing the over-representation of minority children and families in the child welfare system?

Responding to concerns about the over-representation of minority children in the child welfare system, particularly African - American children, the Children's Bureau sponsored an exploratory qualitative study of the child welfare system's response to children of color.