Sentences with phrase «of 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.

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.»»

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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).

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

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.