Sentences with phrase «percent of black»

In fact, SF NAACP President Amos Brown told the local school board that it should declare a state of emergency, because just 19 percent of black students are proficient in English, compared to 31 percent of black students statewide.

Twenty - nine percent of Hispanic students and less than 26 percent of black students met the English 10 standards, compared to 52 percent of white students and 61 percent of Asian students.

An analysis of recent Education Department civil rights data by the nonprofit research group Child Trends found that 54 percent of black students in mostly black middle schools and high schools have school - based law enforcement or security officers.

In the South in 1968, 78 percent of black children attended schools with almost exclusively minority students; by 1988, only 24 percent did.

the district still promoted 95 percent of its students; just 4.5 percent of all students (and only 8.5 percent of black and Latino students) were held back.

Virginia, which gained a waiver last month despite its lack of aggressiveness on the reform front, reaffirmed its reputation for being more - concerned with not disrupting the state's educational ancien regime by approving AMO targets that only require districts to ensure that 57 percent of black students (and 65 percent of Latino peers) are proficient in math by 2016 - 2017.

According to a nationwide study from UCLA 24 percent of black secondary - school students were suspended at least once during the 2009 - 2010 school year versus 7 percent of white students.

At the national level, seventy percent of black charter school students attend intensely segregated minority charter schools (which enroll 90 - 100 % of students from under - represented minority backgrounds), or twice as many as the share of intensely segregated black students in traditional public schools.

Nationally, about 95 percent of White elementary students have White teachers, but only 22 percent of their Black peers have Black teachers.

Even if you consider the growth, the mere fact that only 57 percent of black students are expected to achieve proficiency is one clear example of the low expectations Virginia's state education and general political leaders have for some children.

This has resulted in states such as Tennessee letting traditional districts get away with low bar goals, such as ensuring that 42.8 percent of black high school students are proficient in Algebra I during the 2012 - 2013 school year, some 20 percentage points lower than the rate of proficiency for white peers.

Only twenty - five percent of black males who enter high school here get a diploma.

Yet proficiency lags: Only 60 percent of black and Latino students tested proficient in eighth - grade algebra.

KIPP now claims that «only» 45 percent of black students were suspended, and that it has now reduced the suspension rate for blacks to 25 percent; however, the suspension rate for special education students was 126 percent.

Statewide, 30 percent of black students passed the English exam compared to 67 percent of white students.

* Only 15 percent of Black students are currently in well - resourced, high - performing schools, while 42 percent are in poorly resourced, low - performing schools

Eighty - six percent of black students and 90 percent of Latino students at the Consortium schools are accepted into college, compared with the national numbers 37 percent and 42 percent respectively.

In addition to living in poverty, minority children face disadvantages that include living with one parent (as 65 percent of Black children do) and lacking access to preschool (as 53 percent of Hispanic children do).

In 15 of these states, nearly 70 percent of black students are attending intensely segregated schools, where an overwhelming majority of students identify as minorities, according to 2009 research.

Only 22 percent of black students have a black teacher, according to data cited in the paper.

When asked what qualities make a great school, 92 percent of Black parents and family members and 88 percent of Latino parents and family members said a school that welcomes parent feedback and is responsive to their concerns, according to our first - annual «New Education Majority» poll [i] released earlier this year.

The following table shows all of the Hartford - area magnet schools, categories, and demographic data, including average percent of black / Latino students and average percent of students from Hartford, weighted based on the size of each school.

• Among full - time, first - time students seeking bachelor's degrees, 40 percent of black students, 52 percent of Hispanic students, and 40 percent of American Indian and Alaska Native students earned a degree in four years, compared with 63 percent of white students.

The administration has already had to struggle with the embarrassment arising from its approval of Virginia's abysmally low proficiency targets, which had only required districts to ensure that 57 percent of black students (and 65 percent of Latino peers) were proficient in math by 2016 - 2017.

Using data from the 2014 - 2015 CSDE Sheff Compliance report from October 1, 2014, I calculated the weighted average percent of black / Latino students in each category.

During the 2009 - 10 school year, only 66 percent of black students, 71 percent of Hispanic students, and 69 percent of Native American students graduated in four years, compared with 83 percent of white students.

But at Eastern Michigan, only 20 percent of black students graduate within six years and there's a 25 - percentage - point gap with white students.

Only 2 percent of black students and 3 percent of Hispanic students are in gifted - and - talented programs, compared with 4 percent of white students and 6 percent of Asian students, according to an analysis of federal data since 1998.

In 1991, 33 percent of black students in the South attended schools with 90 percent or more minority enrollment — but by 2009 - 2010 that level had crept up to 38 percent.

About 40 percent of all white students are enrolled at the most selective schools, which also tend to have the best graduation rates, compared with 25 percent of all black students.

Just 13 percent of black third - graders are considered proficient in reading, for example, although that is up from 8 percent of last school year's third - graders.

Forty - seven percent of black ninth - graders have two or more Fs, up from 44 percent the year before.

The district report highlights La Follette High School for graduating 80 percent of its black students.

Back in 1980, only 23 percent of black students in the South attended such intensely segregated schools, the researchers found.

Forty - three percent of Hispanics / Latino students, 40 percent of non-Hispanic White students, and 37 percent of Black students applied to / registered at only one institution.

Nearly 50 percent of the city's white fourth graders are proficient in reading, compared with 20 percent of Hispanic students and 17 percent of black students, the test results show.

Federal welfare rules barring married women from receiving benefits, for example, is one reason why marriage among poor blacks has gone from being the norm to being extraordinarily rare since the 1950s — and why 70 percent of black children are born out of wedlock.

Seventy percent of black charter school students attend schools that are intensely segregated — schools in which 90 to 100 percent of the students are black or Latino.

A 2016 study by UCLA Civil Rights Project found that nearly 50 percent of black secondary students attending a charter school were enrolled in schools where the suspension rate for black students was about 25 percent.

According to a 2012 study, despite all the choices theoretically available to them, 100 percent of black students in the area attend hyper - segregated schools, where they make up at least 90 percent of the student body.

And 51 percent of white fourth graders were at or above proficient in math, compared with 19 percent of black fourth graders.

Last year, nearly 60 percent of Black families with kindergarten - aged children in public schools chose a school, including the 9 percent who lived in all - choice districts.

Sixteen percent of black fourth graders achieved at or above the proficient level, compared with 15 percent nationwide and in the South.

In contrast, according to a Phi Delta Kappan poll 67 percent of black respondents are in opposition to opting out (Richardson, 2016, p. 17).

In California, according to the California Competes, only 47 percent of Latino students and only 38 percent of Black college students completed their college degrees.

But only 31 percent of black 10th - graders scored in the higher categories — proficient and advanced — on the most recent math exam.

Just 13 percent of high school students took strong, comprehensive courses, according to the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress; this included a mere seven percent of black students and six percent of their Latino schoolmates.

Gary Orfield of the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University and Christopher Swanson of the Urban Institute found that about 50 percent of black, Hispanic, and Native American students fail to earn high school diplomas.

In the 2009 - 2010 school year, 83 percent of white students graduated, compared to 71 percent of Hispanic students, 69 percent of American Indian / Alaskan Native students, and 67 percent of black students.

«Boston hires 49 percent of black teacher graduates and 24 percent of Latino educators» who come out of the state's teacher colleges, says Ceronne Daly, the district's managing director of recruitment, cultivation, and diversity programs.