Sentences with phrase «reduce disproportionate»

The American Lung Association will work to reduce the disproportionate health burdens borne by economically disadvantaged and politically disenfranchised communities.

Such knowledge is essential if we are to reduce disproportionate representation and offer equal educational opportunity to all American students.

This article describes the potential of RTI models to improve educational opportunities for culturally and linguistically diverse students and to reduce their disproportionate representation in special education.

She also worked to implement policies and practices that would reduce the disproportionate suspension rates for students of color.

Most recently, SFUSD announced last week that efforts to reduce the disproportionate number of suspensions among black students has been a success, bringing them down 17 percent from last year as the district implements more proactive policies, ranging from daily check - ins to rewards for good behavior, according to a district press release.

This is the first study to show that programs like MTP - S that focus on teacher - student interactions in a sustained manner using a rigorous approach can actually reduce the disproportionate use of exclusionary discipline with African American students.

The board also has worked to promote academic excellence by expanding STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) education; promoting computer literacy, particularly among girls and minority students; and seeking alternative disciplinary practices to reduce the disproportionate suspension and expulsion of minority students.

Students are assessed on their behavior, too, and better assessment practices using reliable information appropriately can reduce disproportionate disciplinary actions, providing useful information for addressing issues without removing students from opportunities to learn.

I cut the police's use of stop and search by almost two thirds and reduced the disproportionate targeting of young, black men.

Second, even if reforms succeed in decreasing the number of suspensions, do they also succeed in reducing disproportionate suspension rates by race and disability?

On Tuesday, Sen. Marco Rubio (R - FL) sent a letter to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, asking her to rescind the Obama administration's 2014 guidance aimed at reducing disproportionate discipline of students of color and promoting alternatives to punitive discipline.

To create What We Know about Reducing Disproportionate Suspension Rates for Students of Color, a literature summary for the Oregon Leadership Network Research Alliance, we examined over 8,900 articles in search of evidence of school and classroom practices that can help reduce disproportionality in discipline referrals and suspensions for middle and high school students.

Reducing disproportionate representation of culturally and linguistically diverse students in special education is not a new concern.

Reducing the disproportionate representation of minority students in special education.

The Department is now considering eliminating guidance aimed at reducing the disproportionate use of suspensions and expulsions on Black and Brown students and students with disabilities.

Reducing disproportionate representation of culturally diverse students in special and gifted education.

Reducing the disproportionate representation of culturally diverse students in special and gifted education.

Cultural Diversity E604: Assessment of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students for Special Education Eligibility (2000) E584: Critical Behaviors and Strategies for Teaching Culturally Diverse Students (1999) E650: Diagnosing Communication Disorders in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students (2003) E500: Empowering Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students with Learning Problems (1991) E500s: Reforzando a los alumnos Diversos Culturalmente y Lingüí con Aprendizaje (1999) E596: Five Strategies to Reduce Overrepresentation of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students in Special Education (2000) E520: Identifying and Serving Recent Immigrant Children Who Are Gifted (1993) E601: Infusing Multicultural Content into the Curriculum for Gifted Students (2000) E589: The Implications of Culture on Developmental Delay (1999) E566: Reducing the Disproportionate Representation of Minority Students in Special Education (1998) E544: Underachievement Among Gifted Minority Students: Problems and Promises (1997) E614: Cultural Reciprocity Aids Collaboration with Families (2001)

The Blueprint for Change, released today in Canberra by the Change the Record coalition, also outlines whole - of - government approaches for reducing the disproportionate rates of violence against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Not exact matches

Another focused on the criminal justice system, helping people navigate the traffic court system and reduce the system's disproportionate impact on low - income citizens.

As it is, he tends to reduce the reasons for ghetto violence and the disproportionate crime rate among African - Americans to dysfunctional families.

Congress failed to rescind Disproportionate Share Hospital payment cuts that became effective on October 1, reducing critical federal funding that reimburses hospitals through the Medicaid program for uncompensated health care costs.

Cuomo said that Congress failed to rescind Disproportionate Share Hospital payment cuts that became effective on October 1, reducing critical federal funding that reimburses hospitals through the Medicaid program for uncompensated health care costs.

«We calculated that 3.6 percent of cases traveled, basically meaning that if you were able to focus on those mobile cases and reduce their mobility, you might have had a disproportionate effect on the epidemic,» said computational biologist Dr. Gytis Dudas, a Mahan Postdoctoral Fellow at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the paper's lead author.

Relative to statewide averages, charter schools tend to attract a disproportionate number of students eligible for free or reduced - price lunch as well as minority students, especially African Americans.

Some cities are addressing inequity, by finding ways to give more students access to challenging curriculum, reducing the use of disproportionate exclusionary discipline, and improving access to the best schools.

So what advice would Beaverton give to other districts ready to reduce exclusionary and disproportionate discipline trends?

That is, is reducing class size a move that yields a disproportionate bang for our buck?

There has been limited research conducted on disproportionate discipline effects on black male performance on standardized exams but UCLA professor Dan Losen suggests reducing suspensions improves student engagement which produces the safety of the learning environment.

In a letter, we told the Governor that the loss of every student to a charter school would cause traditional public schools to bear a disproportionate share of fixed costs, significantly reducing the amount that each school has available.

Our most recent research using the 2014 GCSE results (which excluded many vocational qualifications from counting towards school performance, and reduced the contribution to the total point score of those qualifications included) suggests the improvement was because of disproportionate use of GCSE equivalent qualifications in sponsored academies compared to similar maintained schools.

The purpose of the Executive Order is to ensure that regulatory agencies and the SBA Office of Advocacy work closely together as early as possible in the regulatory drafting process to address disproportionate impacts on small entities and appropriately reduce their regulatory burden.

Bill would damage credit scores of million of consumers Consumer Action joined the National Consumer Law Center and other organizations in opposition to HR 435 — legislation that would reduce consumers» control over their own data by preempting state and federal privacy protections, damage the credit scores of millions of consumers with a disproportionate impact on African Americans, and conflict with long - standing state utility regulatory consumer protections.

Brachycephalia (disproportionate shortness of the head) reduces a dog's ability to breathe properly.

A legislative approach could provide an efficient price signal and generate revenue to promote growth, reduce the unsustainable deficit, and compensate those who will bear disproportionate burdens.

Due to the increasingly fast rate of change in both those kinds of curve, reducing the initial fitted values has a disproportionate effect on where it ends up in say 2100.

Robin repeated and amplified Farah's point about the hugely disproportionate impact of people in the developed world, noting the conclusions of a 2017 study that suggested having one fewer child is by far the most effective individual measure to reduce emissions for a person in the developed world.

When surface temperature and humidity reach a threshold, clouds form which reduce incoming energy from the sun reaching the surface, particularly in Earth's vast oceanic tropics (where a disproportionate portion of it enters the climate system), while daily afternoon thunderstorms remove enough heat from surface areas to bring surface temperatures back into line.

Answers can be found everywhere else, from institutions to gossip papers, the disproportionate quantity of theories is healthy, but comes a time when they have to be narrowed down a bit, this is why I am in favor of fierce, sure to be very popular TV debates, along with data, super bright professors, especially including those tagged as the «regular contrarians», in order to reduce the noise and increase the knowledge ratio.

On a positive note, our study also indicated that projected changes in suitable plant growing days are minimal under RCP 2.6, underscoring the importance of reducing emissions to avoid such disproportionate impacts on ecosystems and people.

Changes in suitable plant growing days are projected to be less severe under strong and moderate mitigation scenarios (i.e., RCP 2.6 and RCP 4.5), underscoring the importance of reducing emissions to avoid such disproportionate impacts on ecosystems and people.

As I have provided clear reasons to not treat the fact that the globally poorest will suffer most from climate change as a reason to not reduce fossil fuel use, we are now only discussing whether or not mentioning the disproportionate impact of global warming on the poor is more or less likely to persuade people to modify their behaviour and reduce emissions.

At the hearing in April 2016 the defendant argued that these sums were disproportionate and ought to be reduced further.

Two dissenting Justices would have held that the law's harmful effects on sex workers are grossly disproportionate to its intended purpose of reducing public nuisance.

Under its replacement (r 16), as from 1 April 2013, costs which are disproportionate in amount may be disallowed or reduced even if they were reasonably incurred.

For all cases not issued by 1 April 2013, all work done since then is subject to the new test of proportionality contained in CPR 44.3, which provides that the court will only allow costs which are proportionate to the matters in issue and costs which are disproportionate may be disallowed or reduced even if reasonably or necessarily incurred.

The Master then looked at the remaining one third and decided that even that greatly reduced sum was disproportionate.

Cost budgets would still be subject to the test of proportionality, in which case a disproportionate amount may be disallowed or reduced, even if it is considered reasonable and consequentially unrecoverable from the other side.

The goal of the project is to keep more kids in school and reduce the minority achievement gap that results from the disproportionate number of minority students being expelled.

The report argues that the disproportionate disadvantage faced by young Indigenous people has the potential to increase and further entrench the disparity between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians over the coming decades unless greater effort is made now to reduce the inequality that they face.