Sentences with phrase «racial composition closer»
We identify as integration - improving student transfers those that move a school's racial composition closer to that of the relevant CBSA benchmark.
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That these schools and their magnet programs tend to have a racial composition closer to that of the neighborhood — majority minority — only reduces their attractiveness to whites.
Not exact matches
By this measure, schools are closer to complete integration than ever before, and thus racial composition would have to change less now than when the report was released.
In the 2002 and 2004 elections, however, media coverage shifted to other issues, such as the closing of schools, the racial composition of schools and boards, disciplinary problems, and sports programs.
The study, «The Louisiana Scholarship Program,» by Anna J. Egalite and Jonathan N. Mills, finds that the transfers resulting from the LSP vouchers statewide «overwhelmingly improve integration in the public schools students leave (the sending schools), bringing the racial composition of the schools closer to that of the broader communities in which they are located.»
Among the subset of students for whom data are available, we find that transfers made possible by the school - choice program overwhelmingly improve integration in the public schools that students leave (the sending schools), bringing the racial composition of the schools closer to that of the broader communities in which they are located.
Hoxby quickly gathered data, and just a month after the AFT study grabbed headlines, her study, A Straightforward Comparison of Charter Schools and Regular Public Schools in the United States, is making news with findings showing that, on average, students in charter schools are 5 percent more likely to be proficient in reading and 3 percent more likely to be proficient in math than students at the closest public schools with similar racial composition.
While we're at it, maybe we should close any private schools, whatever their racial composition today, that were initially established as segregation academies when public schools began to integrate.