Sentences with phrase «school students attend intensely»

At the national level, seventy percent of black charter school students attend intensely segregated minority charter schools (which enroll 90 - 100 % of students from under - represented minority backgrounds), or twice as many as the share of intensely segregated black students in traditional public schools.

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Using the best available unit of comparison, we find that 63 percent of charter students in these central cities attend school in intensely segregated minority schools, as do 53 percent of traditional public school students (see Figure 1).

First, the majority of students in central cities, in both the public charter sector and in the traditional public sector, attend intensely segregated minority schools.

And we know that, more often than not, the students attending traditional public schools in cities are in intensely segregated schools.

Indeed, we find the majority of students in the central cities of metropolitan areas, in both charter and traditional public schools, attend school in intensely segregated settings.

A different but equally positive reaction is evoked by Deborah Kenny's intensely personal account of the grit, resolve, and courage that led her to take the opportunity offered by the charter school movement and create a model school that her students were immensely lucky to attend.

Millions of students across the country attend schools that are intensely segregated by economic status.

Seventy percent of black charter school students attend schools that are intensely segregated — schools in which 90 to 100 percent of the students are black or Latino.

Back in 1980, only 23 percent of black students in the South attended such intensely segregated schools, the researchers found.

Roughly three - quarters of the students attending intensely segregated settings in the state were considered low - income, and low - income students constituted more than 85 % of the enrollment in apartheid schools (where white students make up less than 1 % of the enrollment).

In 15 of these states, nearly 70 percent of black students are attending intensely segregated schools, where an overwhelming majority of students identify as minorities, according to 2009 research.

In spite of the dramatic suburbanization of nonwhite families, 80 % of Latino students and 74 % of black students attend majority nonwhite schools (50 - 100 % minority), and 43 % of Latinos and 38 % of blacks attend intensely segregated schools (those with only 0 - 10 % of whites students) across the nation.

At the same time, a dozen states (including those with high concentrations of Latino students like Arizona and Texas) report that a majority of Latino charter students attend intensely segregated minority schools.

This report shows that segregation has increased seriously across the country for Latino students, who are attending more intensely segregated and impoverished schools than they have for generations.

Some 70 percent of black students who attend charter schools attend «intensely segregated» schools — that is, schools with a nonwhite population greater than 90 percent.

Levine found that 73.5 % of black students in the metro area now attend schools with 90 % or more non-white students, so - called «intensely segregated» schools.

In Milwaukee in 2013 - 2014, more than 77 % of African American students in the public schools attended «intensely segregated» schools, but for African American students in the voucher program, that number rose to more than 85 %.

Meanwhile, about 40 percent of black and Hispanic students attend schools that are intensely segregated, serving few white students.