Sentences with phrase «of the black students from»

Secret Service agents kicked out dozens of black students from a Trump rally in Georgia, hours after the front - runner's agent assaulted a news photographer for documenting booted «Black Lives Matter» protesters in Virginia.

Just 8 percent of the Black students from poor families and 15 percent of those from more prosperous families score at the proficient or above levels.

Private schools have little effect on the educational opportunities of Black students from low - income families in either Mississippi or Michigan.

In the process, Wiseburn has taken in hundreds of black students from nearby struggling districts like Los Angeles Unified and Compton Unified.

But just 30.3 percent of black students from families with money score that well.

Not exact matches

The Trump administration and the GOP - controlled Congress should focus on saving millions of American students and their families — not to mention the larger US economy — from this long - term financial black hole.

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Weldon J. Rougeau, a long - time civil rights activist, has considered the issue of diversity from many perspectives — as director of the office of federal contract compliance programs at the U.S. Department of Labor during the Carter administration, as president of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and even as a prisoner for 78 days (58 of them in solitary confinement) in a Baton Rouge, La., jail cell when he was a student activist.

The analysis, which was done in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the founding of Harvard Business School's African American Student Union, captures the career trajectories of the majority of female black graduates who have earned degrees from the school.

Now, with this essential funding commitment from the Province, We for She 2018 will continue to bring together women and B.C. students for a fifth annual one - day forum, with the ultimate goal of making gender equality in leadership a priority,» said Iain Black, CEO of the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade.

However, if a group of students wants to be able to discriminate — say a Catholic group wants to forbid women from being in leadership, or a fundamentalist groups wants to forbid blacks from joining, they will need to go off campus.

That struggle entered one of its critical stages in the summer of 1964 when young black civil rights workers in Mississippi, aided by about 800 white college students from the North, tried to bring blacks in the Magnolia state to a new level of political and social awareness.

The images of him standing at the door at the University of Alabama to prevent two black students from entering had been seared into my mind.

Taylor is also one of several black students who told me that white students would often touch her hair without permission and make comments about its texture and differences from white hair.

For example, one black student who asked to remain anonymous recounted a frightening story from the early 2000s just after one of the Men in Black films had been released in theablack student who asked to remain anonymous recounted a frightening story from the early 2000s just after one of the Men in Black films had been released in theaBlack films had been released in theaters.

What did Friedrich Schleiermacher, Adolf Harnack and Karl Barth have to do with young black students who came from the cotton fields of the south, looking to create a new future for their lives?

That struggle entered one of its critical stages in the summer of 1964 when young black civil rights workers in Mississippi, aided by about 800 white college students from the North, tried to bring blacks in the Magnolia state...

The 2009 biographical film about a black high school student adopted by a white Christian family is rated PG - 13 and became something of an evangelical darling when it released, receiving endorsements from Christianity Today and Focus on the Family.

The governor of Alabama himself «stood in the door» to block black students from entering the University of Alabama

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Courtesy of the American Culinary Federation Madeline Black, a 19 - year - old from Provo, took home the American Culinary Federation's Student Chef of the Year title last week.

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Courtesy of the American Culinary Federation Madeline Black, a culinary student from Utah Valley University, competed last wee

Players and students from the Japanese national female team met the Black Queens of Ghana today in training to associate...

A study from the Economic Research Service arm of the USDA found that just making more fruit and vegetables available in school cafeterias led to black and Hispanic students, students from Spanish - speaking households, younger students and females all eating more of these healthy foods.

Based on 2010 statistics from the National Center for Education Statistics, 74 percent of black students, 77 percent of Latino students, and 68 percent of American Indian / Alaska Native students were eligible for free or reduced price lunches, compared to only 28 percent of white students.

It had accused students of fraud, put a black mark against their name which would prevent them being accepted into other countries, conducted dawn raids against them, separated husbands from wives, put many in detention, and then deported them.

Whereas, Mr. Paladino acknowledged that he made these statements; And, Mr. Paladino is an elected official charged with the responsibility to represent children and families in a district comprised of over 70 % Black, Brown, Asian, Immigrant and other minority students and families; And, Mr. Paladino took an oath to ensure that students are afforded an environment which is free from fear and respects diversity within the school district and the community and is subject to all district policies; And,

By Saturday afternoon, more than 5,700 people had signed an online petition calling for his removal from the school board in a diverse district where the majority of students are black.

«Gun control now,» Cuomo chanted, reclining on the sidewalk in his black suit and tie, along with students and teachers from nearby Leadership & Public Service High School who joined in nationwide school walkouts on the one - month anniversary of the Parkland shooting.

I hope that funds from the proposal are concentrated more in those districts where the fewest students have access to the type of gifted and talented programs that feed into the specialized high schools,» said Carole Brown, member of Stuyvesant Black Alumni Diversity Initiative, Stuyvesant High School Class of 1981, Fordham University» 85, Columbia University «90.

Ms. Moskowitz proudly touted the success of Success, noting with real joy how three students at the school in Bed - Stuy had achieved a perfect score on an international math test «out of 30 or 40 worldwide» and taking particular pride in how many of the schools» high achievers are «black and brown» and from neighborhoods that face enormous disadvantages.

The district has been fighting for some time over funding, with the Orthodox Jewish - controlled school board diverting funds to Yeshivas — religious private schools that educate a minority of students — and away from the public schools attended by a majority of students, many of whom are black and Latino.

Utica, N.Y. >> Students from SUNY Polytechnic Institute's Allied Health Club who are majoring in Psychology and Sociology helped make the holidays a little brighter for area families through support of a toy drive for the Oneida Square Project Black Friday Sale.

Concerns stem in part from a majority of students in the district attending religious schools, while the Board of Education is largely dominated by Hasidic men making decisions for a largely black and Latino student body.

Despite fences erected to keep them away from a black - tie gala, hundreds of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute students on Friday voiced their anger at President Shirley Ann Jackson in a protest over the fate of their student union.

At Success Academy Charter Schools, for example, students who are mainly black and Latino, and who are from many of the city's lowest - income neighborhoods, tested in the top 1 % in math and 3 % in English of all schools in New York State last year.

3:00 PM — Rally for the removal of Intermediate School 224 Principal Patricia Catania after allegations that she barred an English teacher from teaching black history lessons and targeted black teachers and students, P.S. / I.S. 224, 345 Brook Ave., Bronx.

But Benjamin cautioned that members of the black and Latino caucus are very much opposed to the idea of untethering SUNY from the Legislature's control, in part due to a concern that tuitions would rise out of the reach of low and middle - income students, but also simply because lawmakers don't like the idea of giving up control of anything.

«THE STUDY FOUND THAT BLACK AND LATINO STUDENTS HAVE HALF THE NUMBER OF ADVANCED PLACEMENT CLASSES compared to their white and Asian peers, according to data from 353 high schools in the 2011 - 2012 academic year.

Also prominent among the new crop of female MPs is 20 - year - old Mhairi Black, a SNP Glasgow University student who won Paisley and Renfrewshire South from the shadow foreign secretary, Douglas Alexander and becomes the youngest MP since 1667.

What this approach ignores, to be frank, is that most victims of crime in New York City belong to Mark - Viverito's «communities of color» — just as black and Hispanic students suffer most from disruptions in the city's 70 % - plus black and Hispanic public - school system.

As a result, selective colleges and universities would have to admit six times as many students under an income - based policy to yield the same number of black and Hispanic youth as would result from an explicitly race - based policy.

PhD student, Stefan Hofer, from the University's School of Geographical Sciences and member of the Black and Bloom and GlobalMass projects is the lead author of the study.

«For instance, a paper talking about protein - folding patterns is a great example of the practice of making models to understand phenomena, while preliminary results from a study of black holes might be a great way to ask students to examine what the next steps would be for the researchers, allowing them to develop hypotheses and design possible experiments,» Lake said.

Florian Peissker, a PhD student at the University of Cologne in Germany, who did much of the observing, says: «Being at the telescope and seeing the data arriving in real time was a fascinating experience,» and Monica Valencia - S., a post-doctoral researcher also at the University of Cologne, who then worked on the challenging data processing adds: «It was amazing to see that the glow from the dusty cloud stayed compact before and after the close approach to the black hole.»

Alongside Diego Rubiera, from the University of Lisbon, and Antonio Sánchez, PhD student also at the UV, Olmo's research sees him analysing black holes using theories besides general relativity (GR).

«It is the first time that we have seen outflowing cold gas moving at these large speeds at such large distances from the supermassive black hole,» said Claudia Cicone, a PhD student at Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory and Kavli Institute for Cosmology, and lead author on the first of the two papers.

Researchers from Royal Holloway, University of London, led by PhD student Leslie van der Leer, assigned participants a computer task in which they observed the color of a black or white fish caught from one of two lakes and were then asked to choose to see further fish or decide on one of the lakes as the source of that sequence of fish.

The course demands of my major (premed and zoology), coupled with the struggles to address deficiencies that were uncovered from my earlier «separate and unequal» education, gave me little time to socialize within the small, mostly commuting, black student community.