Sentences with phrase «predominantly white populations»

However, in combination the various chapters confirm what most observers of charter schools already know: that charter schools serve different demographic groups depending on where they are located, are disproportionately located in low - income and minority areas in big cities and in those places serve mostly low - income and African American families — but, in some states, also exist in suburban areas where they serve predominantly white populations.

In this 8 - year trial, involving 41,186 particpants of the Black Women's Health Study, research data confirmed inverse associations between magnesium, calcium and major food sources in relation to type 2 diabetes that had already been reported in predominantly white populations.

The USDA, which manages the NSLP, could not provide specific information about districts participating leaving program, but most that have come out publicly about dropping the program have predominantly white populations of students and have a very low percentage of students receiving free or reduced - price lunches.

While the Midwest may be best known for films that highlight a predominantly white population, there are so many more stories to tell, as exemplified by director Musa Syeed's acclaimed new film A STRAY, which premiered at the SXSW Film Festival and enjoyed a spotlight at BAMcinématek.

In recent months, the city's battle over school segregation has played out in a few specific schools in some of the its fastest - gentrifying (or already gentrified - to - saturation - point) neighborhoods: Nikole Hannah - Jones chronicled the Brooklyn version of the saga in her much - discussed New York Times Magazine piece last weekend, «Choosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City,» about her decision to send her black daughter to a mostly minority school, only to have that school rezoned to include an affluent, predominantly white population.

Not exact matches

Just under 300,000 in population, predominantly white, rural and lower income, the 46th Senate district cobbled together farming communities, depressed industrial towns and affluent Albany suburbs.

Due to the county's lack of diversity — the population of about 150,000 is predominantly white — the researchers used only the nationwide white population to estimate prevalence, so the result may not be representative of other populations.

They noted that 27 (15 percent) of trauma centers serve a population that is more than 50 percent minority, while 154 have patients who are predominantly white.

In addition, since the NHS is predominantly made up middle - aged to elderly white women, further studies will be needed to determine if these patterns are also seen in men and in racially and socioeconomically diverse populations.

According to the CIA World Fact book, about 60 % of the population is mestizo (mixed Amerindian and white), another 30 % is Amerindian or predominantly Amerindian.

Interrogated by police detective Lorenzo Council (Samuel L. Jackson), Brenda explains that as she was driving to her home in a neighboring town — that is, going from an area with a predominantly black population to one that's almost strictly white — a black man stopped her and forced her out of the car.

The students in grades 2 through 6 in the district are predominantly white (73 percent), with a sizable ethnic minority (Latino students compose 21 percent of the elementary population); 48 percent of them receive a free or reduced - price lunch.

But to capitalize on this opportunity, urban schools that currently serve a predominantly poor and minority population must find a way to attract and retain the gentrifiers — mostly white, upper - middle - class, highly educated parents.

What had been a largely white and affluent population became predominantly non-white, with more than half of the students in the district receiving free and reducedprice lunches.

After P.S. 84 was named a magnet school for the visual arts in 2004, the school struggled to blend its white students with its predominantly Hispanic population.

This troubling yet pervasive tableau has bedeviled modern reform movements since their inception: Leadership has remained predominantly white, even though the target populations are overwhelmingly black and Latino.

Toews said charter schools should be used to innovate and better serve underserved populations, which the Montessori school, which serves predominantly white, well - off families, doesn't do.

While this lack of proportional diversity exists in several professions, when your job focuses on leading a mostly black and Latino student population to succeed academically and socially in a predominantly white society, race matters so much more.

On one side of the neighborhood are PS 8 and PS 199, two schools in Brooklyn and Manhattan respectively, that are well - funded and serve predominantly white student populations (Taylor 2016; Taylor, Sept. 2015).

A 2006 study from the Brookings Institution which found that counties with high minority populations are more likely to have lower average credit scores than predominantly white counties.

«What's happening, as the American population becomes more diverse, is that the lawyer corps and judges are remaining predominantly white,» said John Nussbaumer, associate dean of Thomas M. Cooley Law School's campus in Auburn Hills, Mich., which enrolls an unusually high percentage of African - American students.

Washington, D.C. — Good drivers living in predominantly African American ZIP codes are charged significantly higher premiums than similar drivers in largely white communities, even after accounting for population density and income levels, according to a report released today.

The population was predominantly white, and most parents had graduated from high school.

Although the client population consisted of predominantly white New Zealanders, the rate of Māori (the indigenous people of New Zealand) parents was approximately twice that of the rate of Māori in the general New Zealand population.