Sentences with phrase «predominately white school»

The answer of how to solve the question of segregation seems to be: 1) We entice white kids to a predominately black / brown school; OR 2) We bring black / brown kids to a predominately white school.

A few miles away in Madison, a predominately white school district, the district handed out only 42 out - of - school suspensions in a population of approximately 3,300 students.

The movie, «Dear White People,» centers on mixed - race film major Samantha White (Tessa Thompson), who attends a prestigious predominately white school of Winchester and has self - published a book called «Ebony and Ivy.»

She calls it the «major civil rights issue of our time,» and she said Cuomo is furthering policies that favor spending more money on New York's wealthy, predominately white schools than on the state's poorest schools.

She calls it the «major civil rights issue of our time», and she says Cuomo is furthering policies that favor spending more money on New York's wealthy, predominately white schools, than on the state's poorest schools.

Not exact matches

I grew up in a very predominately white religious community in the mountains of central California (Oakhurst / Coarsegold to be exact) and have managed to separate myself from almost everyone I went to high school with / knew growing up through religious happenings on facebook.

I was transitioning from a school of about 5000 students that was nestled in the center of a major and highly diverse city to a majority (i.e., predominately white) institution of about 27,000 students in what was «thought» to be a diverse city by some.

Concerned about the absence of black and Latino students in the field of computer science, Margolis launched a three - year study of students» computing experiences at three high schools in Los Angeles — one with a predominately African - American student population, one with a largely Latino student body, and a third with a significant percentage of white students from wealthy families.

«That was something that the «White Boys» did» was a common mantra overheard in predominately African - American school systems!

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Essentially the school community placed greater value on the predominately white, middle class parent as provider over the minority parent, who commonly acted as a protector.

In particular, Gabriel's dissertation studies how Latina / o youth navigate their schooling by examining their enactments of identity and efforts to forge community in a predominately white suburban high school.

The first school, Valor Flagship Academy, is located along Nolensville Pike in Southeast Nashville, which is close to predominately white neighborhoods but includes large populations of Latinos and Kurdish residents, he said.

More than two decades later, Hartford schools were still predominately composed of students of color, while schools in the surrounding suburbs were predominately white.

Student participants attend a suburban high school in Chicagoland that is predominately white and well resourced.

In 1989, Syracuse city schools were about 60 percent white, and just 20 percent of black and Latino students attended predominately minority schools.

Walk into any AF school and the truth will be seen - Students being demeaned and disciplined for not meeting ridiculous expectations, unacceptably high suspension rates, unacceptably low Special Education numbers and alarming Special Education noncompliance, predominately white leadership that is filled with hubris and a deep disconnectedness with the school's children and families, burned out teachers, high teacher turnover, etc..

Today, the district is 28 percent white, while 55 percent of Latino students and 75 percent of black students attend predominately minority schools.

Chicago officials claim they can not force white students into schools with predominately poor and minority students, for fear that white affluent families will flee public schools.

Many of the traditions at the previous predominately black schools were changed to make their white teachers more comfortable.

If students and parents are to have real choices, shuffling urban students between struggling schools in their city is not a satisfactory answer — they must be able to «choose» the predominately white and wealthy schools serving suburban property owners as well.

I was a part of a State decison to integrate a predominately all - White school.

The data were collected from 506 (50 % female) middle school students from a predominately white, upper middle class community.