Sentences with phrase «racial composition of»

Similarly, Fair Housing laws prohibit agents from engaging in discriminatory practices, which includes discussing certain topics, such as the racial composition of a community, or whether an area is safe.

Real estate professionals use schools as «a proxy for the racial composition of a neighborhood,» accuses the NFHA, which found that some practitioners told white buyers that schools located in interracial neighborhoods were «bad.»

Thus, the court ruled that there was no duty, either fiduciary or contractual, for the Buyer's Representative to inform the Buyers about the racial composition of certain communities.

Following the making of their offer, the Buyers called the Buyer's Representative to inquire once more about the racial composition of the town where the property was located.

Blockbusting, or panic peddling, is a practice in which some real estate brokers, exploiting fears of change in the racial composition of the neighborhood and potential decline in property values, encourage owners to put their homes on the market.

This data, including geographic, cultural, linguistic, and racial composition of the community as well as culturally relevant community resources, will inform the mental health consultation services approach, design, and delivery.

They can specify a religion, the type of family (two parent, single parent, childless couple, stay - at - home mom, etc.), education level of the adoptive parents, financial status of the family, racial composition of the family, and many other characteristics the birth parents feel are important.

As the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit observed, the defendant would have to investigate, over a number of cases, the race of persons tried in the particular jurisdiction, the racial composition of the venire and petit jury, and the manner in which both parties exercised their peremptory challenges.

According to the Post story, back in the spring, D.C. Superior Court Judge Neal Kravitz sent back a pool of 70 prospective jurors because the racial composition of the group — 61 whites, eight blacks and one Asian — didn't align with the racial and economic population within the District.

Legally, the composition of the jury does not need to match the exact racial composition of the forum jurisdiction.

Relying on cherry - picked statutory history, Brennan found that Title VII's plain text did not prohibit collectively bargained, voluntary affirmative action programs that attempt to remedy disparate impact — statistical imbalances in the racial composition of employment groups — even if such plans used quota systems.

I'm not sure how to change the racial composition of an audience unless I'm at a predominately black institution.

A 2010 report commissioned by the American Alliance of Museums indicated that the racial composition of contemporary museum audiences has remained at a level of diversity reminiscent of the 1970s while the diversity of the general population has more than tripled during that time.

Racial composition of the neighborhood where an applicant wants to buy, refinance or improve a house they are borrowing money for

Check that the appraisal has accurate information and determine whether the appraiser considered illegal factors, like the racial composition of the neighborhood.

Owning homes in upper - middle class black neighborhoods puts families in a unique situation where they can begin to accumulate wealth, but where the racial composition of the neighborhood puts them at a disadvantage compared to black families in majority white neighborhoods.

As the ethnic and racial composition of students continues to shift, we must remember the importance that HSIs play in responding to issues of diversity in the teaching profession.

This was a period of significant social change, as the racial composition of big city schools...

The racial composition of certain neighborhoods within America's cities is in large part an artifact of discriminatory practices.

We would have to weight the figures according to the racial composition of the student body.

The figure makes clear that the racial composition of one's neighbors depends much more on one's race than on one's income.

In conclusion, though school representatives and parents rarely talk about demographics, there are clearly many factors that affect racial composition of schools.

When they attended a school that was between 0 and 60 percent black, their math scores were unaffected by the racial composition of the school they attended.

The researchers also looked at the data by gender and found that black boys were most affected by the racial composition of the school.

For example, schools can draw attendance zones based on the racial composition of particular neighborhoods because students in those neighborhoods would be treated the same regardless of race.

Districts may design school choice programs in a way that achieves diversity or avoids racial isolation using race - neutral factors (such as socioeconomic status) or generalized race - based factors that look at things like the overall racial composition of neighborhoods but do not involve decision - making on the basis of any individual student's race.

No matter how rich or how poor the district in question, funding gaps existed solely based on the racial composition of the school.

Consider the data above on racial composition of schools.

The paper demonstrates this point by showing that in the aggregate, a comparison of racial composition of sending and receiving schools shows no large differences — it appears that students are switching to schools of similar racial composition.

For instance, the racial composition of the school age population of the entirety of New York City has little relevance to concerns about and efforts to improve the racial balance of schools on Staten Island, which by virtue of its geography might as well be a part of New Jersey.

We found no significant differences between lottery winners and losers on characteristics, including gender, age at high school entry, and the math and reading scores and racial composition of their middle schools.

Over the last decade the internet population has come to much more closely resemble the racial composition of the population as a whole.

Similarly, when the researchers looked at whether transfers to charter schools affected the distribution of students by race or ethnicity, they found that, in most sites, the racial composition of the charter school entered by a transferring student was similar to that of the traditional public school that he or she had left.

«Now we arrive at the point — in 2014 — where you can literally walk down a hallway in Columbia High School and look in a classroom and know whether it's an upper - level class or a lower - level class based on the racial composition of the classroom,» Fields said.

«The term «racial imbalance» refers to a ratio between nonwhite and other students in public schools which is sharply out of balance with the racial composition of the society in which nonwhite children study, serve and work.

One amicus reports that» [i] n study after study, racial composition of a student body, when isolated, proves to be an insignificant determinant of student achievement.»

In each case, the school district relies upon an individual student's race in assigning that student to a particular school, so that the racial balance at the school falls within a predetermined range based on the racial composition of the school district as a whole.

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.

The racial composition of our final analysis sample is similar to that of all voucher users.

For this benchmark, we use the racial composition of the larger metropolitan or micropolitan area, the Core Based Statistical Area (CBSA) as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau, in which the school is located.

Aside from Georgia (which has only three charter schools), the average racial composition of charter schools in the other states is similar to their statewide averages.

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.»

The change in the racial composition of the 750 + student school was less than one percent.

Much more, of course, was involved in the shooting than the racial composition of the schools attended by Wilson and Brown, but it is hard to shake the feeling that a lack of contact and understanding — outside of confrontations — between white police officers and black citizens lies at the heart of this and too many other tragic encounters.

The basic flaw in the CRP study is that it compares the racial composition of charter schools, which tend to be located in inner cities, with that of traditional public schools, which are located in all different kinds of environments.

The judge's finding that the district has not fully desegregated was based not on the racial composition of classrooms, but on such factors as racial disparities in academic achievement.

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.

Desegregation since the Coleman Report Racial composition of schools and student learning by Steven Rivkin

In a recent study, Lindsay, Blom, and Tilsley present an impressive analysis of the disparities between the racial composition of American children and the racial composition of the American teaching force.

They also note that parents devoted as much time online to learning about the racial composition of schools as about student achievement.