Sentences with phrase «poor families of color»

It was also noted that the choice system was developed on «middle class expectations, but applied to a system comprised primarily of working class and poor families of color,» (Pérez, 2011).

It was also noted that the choice system was developed on «middle class expectations, but applied to a system comprised primarily of working class and poor families of color,»

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For over 50 years, regardless of the political environment or changes in the economy, GLIDE has stood with the most vulnerable, including poor people, those with illness, people of color, immigrants, as well as all families and children fleeing war and oppression.

Homes of this size or smaller sheltered newlywed couples, poor families, laborers, people of color, and renters.

Dear Lenore: Margaret Sanger, who founded the tiny birth control clinic that was to become the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, became a family planning crusader because she felt it was vital for poor women (and that included women of color) to control their fertility.

Carl has created hundreds of jobs for people of color and he's funded a homeless mission for 15 years, feeding, housing and educating Buffalo's poorest families.

Paladino has a long history of making race - related comments, but Thomas noted in the video (I'm not sure that it ever actually hit the airwaves) the candidate also «created hundreds of jobs for people of color and he's funded a homeless mission for 15 years, feeding, housing and educating Buffalo's poorest families.»

«This is going to be incredibly detrimental to children of color, to poor children, to the most vulnerable families and children in our country.»

At 149 schools in the Bronx, less than one in ten can read or do math at grade level, and these schools disproportionately impact poor children of - color — 96 % of the 65,000 students in these failing schools are of - color, and 95 % come from families near or below the poverty line.

Children of color accounted for approximately 49 percent of all young people in 2015, but were overrepresented among those living in poor and low - income families.

Steve Martin (Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Lonely Guy) stars as Navin Johnson, a white man - child living as the adopted son of a poor black Mississippi sharecropping family, and though he doesn't quite know it, his «whiteness», in both skin color and interests, has definitely made him the «black sheep» of the family.

If you want to really make a difference in the public education of poor children of color and their families, you'll hold yourself accountable for both your successes and your failures.

This group, mostly families of color and poor, are shamed for participating in the middle - class act of selection.

The Common Core SBAC test is particularly unfair and discriminatory for students of color, who come from poor families, who face English language challenges or who utilize special education services.

Families in Louisiana are calling for an end to zero - tolerance policies and suspension laws because they do not address student behavior and disproportionately target poor people and students of color.

At the annual conservative American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) meeting this year, Dr. Steve Perry — a liberal charter school leader and passionate educational choice advocate — spoke about the poor state of K — 12 education for families of color and those in poverty and inspired the audience with his ideas on how to bridge the political divide to advance universal educational choice.

In education, we invest less on children of color and poor families.

Achievement gaps between the rich and poor can be eradicated by offering high - quality preschool programs to children of color and lower - income families.

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