Sentences with phrase «racial disparities remain»

Racial disparities remain, though state, latimes.com/local/educatio… California and L.A. Unified graduation rates continue to increase latimes.com/local/educatio… DeVos announces -LSB-...]

Gangi points to bias in law enforcement, citing data that shows while stop - and - frisks or arrests for certain offenses may be down, racial disparities remain, with people of color stopped or arrested far more often than white people.

And marijuana arrests already had decreased 43 percent under Bloomberg compared to the peak in 2011... While the number of arrests has decreased, the racial disparity remains high and largely unchanged.

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If you can counter those jaded ideas with irrefutable arguments based in history and fact, that could go a long way in helping to further a more sensible dialogue and finding solutions to racial disparities that remain deeply entrenched.

Yet, despite New York's lead in simultaneously decarcerating its prison system and reducing crime, racial disparities throughout New York's criminal justice system remain unchanged.

New York has a medical marijuana program and has decriminalized small amounts of pot, but racial disparities in punishment remain even though white people and people of color use the drug at similar rates.

«Although trends over time show that the racial disparity in cervical cancer mortality is closing, these data emphasize that it should remain a priority area,» said Dr. Rositch.

«We would expect to see less disparity in hypertension rates across racial groups due to equal access to health care and equitable social and economic status; however, black, non-Hispanic service members remained disproportionately affected,» said Army Colonel William Corr, the deputy director of AFHSC's division of Epidemiology and Analysis.

«This suggests that well - documented racial disparity in total joint replacement (TJR) persists, and that there remains a substantial population in whom TJR is underutilized.»

Lima cautions, however, that much remains to be understood about the root causes of racial disparities and how to fix them.

Several other issues (personalized learning, racial disparities, the effect of cell phones on student learning) will also be under the spotlight this year, but one issue — despite its profound impact on students and families — will likely remain unaddressed.

Racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities in academic achievement remain a stubborn feature of U.S. schooling.

Federal guidance remains essential for holding our school systems accountable at the local level and for keeping this issue at the center of the national dialogue so that we can bring an end to racial and discipline disparities and support all students to succeed in communities across our nation.

Suspension, expulsion rates fall sharply in California, but racial and ethnic disparities remain edsource.org/2017/suspensio...

Twenty - three major organizations from across the country also signed a letter sent to Secretary DeVos, in which they stressed: «This federal guidance remains essential for holding our school systems accountable at the local level and for keeping this issue at the center of the national dialogue so that communities can work together to create solutions that bring an end to racial and discipline disparities and provide support so that all students can succeed in our nation.»

On Tuesday, March 3, Engaging Schools Executive Director Larry Dieringer played a key role in «From the Police Precinct to the Principal's Office: The Challenges Facing School Districts One Year After the Release of Federal School Discipline Guidance,» a Congressional briefing that explored changes underway and challenges remaining more than a year after the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice released guidance to help school districts develop discipline policies that keep students in school, eliminate racial disparities, and increase positive behavioral supports.

Danner says, «Racial and socio - economic disparity of educational outcomes and opportunities remain our country's greatest injustice.

Racial disparities in discipline remain (Figure 3).