Sentences with phrase «students of color attend»

Since fully 35 percent of the nation's students of color attend school in either California or Texas, examining the relationship between the percent of students of color and dollars spent per student can bring the problem into sharper focus.

This positive news, however, is tempered by the fact that only 12 percent of the nation's students of color attend school in these states.

Not exact matches

Charter school supporters, like Loeb and the Post editorial board, often argue that Democrats who oppose charter schools (and are allied with teachers unions) are doing so to the detriment of students, especially children of color, who are more likely to attend subpar district schools.

In response to Proposal 2, the 2006 ballot initiative that banned affirmative action in the public sector in Michigan, she cofounded The Imagine Fund, a nonprofit providing scholarship for academically qualified and economically challenged students of color to attend Michigan colleges and universities.

In one of the most recent outreaches into the community, Jenkins, his Wesleyan students, and three women who had been incarcerated at York, including Gardner, attended the Ed School Alumni of Color Conference in March to perform a mash - up of Dante's Inferno and the prisoner's life stories called To See the Stars.

Although students in urban schools are more likely to be students of color, English language learners, and eligible for a free or reduced price lunch, the schools they attend continue to lack adequate financial resources.

These findings contradict the standard view of race - conscious admissions, which is that it lowers the bar for students of color and makes it easier for them to attend the more exclusive institutions.

For the first time in U.S. history, a majority of children attending public schools are students of color.

Over 42 percent of college students — including many students of color, older students, and people seeking continuing education — attend community colleges in the United States, says Long, and many of that number experience challenges in paying their tuition.

The historical legacy of racial segregation also explains why students of color disproportionately attend economically segregated schools.

Students of color «are three to four times more likely to attend schools with higher concentrations of first - year teachers than White studentsStudents of color «are three to four times more likely to attend schools with higher concentrations of first - year teachers than White studentsstudents.»

This is especially true of students of color, and those attending schools in low - income communities.

A recent report from the Learning Policy Institute, a research and policy organization in Palo Alto, cites studies that found «that teachers of color boost the academic performance of students of color,» on measures such as improved reading and math scores, graduation rates and greater aspirations to attend college.

The families that choose to attend charter schools are predominantly low - income students of color.

Additionally, as 90 % of students attending charter schools are students of color, and the New York Charter Schools Act directly targets populations that tend to be overwhelmingly comprised of minorities, the Plaintiffs also allege that the funding scheme has a disproportionate and discriminatory impact on minority students.

All 36 graduates who walked on stage held up the t - shirt of the college or university they'll be attending this fall, and each one of those students is a student of color — many of them saying they'll prove skeptics wrong, that they're not a statistic, and that they will succeed — and I have no doubt they will, thanks in large part to the incredible education afforded to them at the time at AF.

While this expansion of options has benefitted many families, there are still roughly 160,000 students — mostly low - income students and students of color - attending persistently low - performing schools in Los Angeles.

By contrast, only 5 percent of white students attended schools where enrollment was 75 percent or more students of color.

Our students and students» families desire greater opportunity for more rigorous academic experiences and are also under - represented in higher education: 97 % identify as students of color; more than 50 % speak a language other than English at home; and 71 % will be the first in their families to attend a four - year college.

Efforts to increase the number of students of color who attend and graduate from college may be a powerful lever for increasing the diversity of the teaching profession.

One of those strategies was the elimination of the Chapter 220 program, which allowed for students of color from high - poverty neighborhoods to attend schools in predominantly white suburban school districts.

The report found that while charter schools have dramatically improved public school opportunities for American families over the last quarter century — particularly for urban students and students of color — most charters continue to look fairly similar to the schools Americans have attended for generations.

But even so, white students in the South are more likely to be exposed to students of color than in the past, mostly attributed to the rising number of Hispanic students attending schools with them.

IDEA later even admitted that its students in the Rio Grande Valley wore uniforms which were color - coded, not on the basis of grade or age, but on standardized test - score achievement, thus insuring the humiliation of older siblings by their more test - savvy younger brothers and sisters attending the same school!»

Some notable programs include A Better Chance, which provides opportunities for students of color to attend boarding and day college - prep schools around the country.

In theory at least, the color of a student's skin would no longer determine the school they attended.

Among this group of failing public high schools, approximately 7 percent of students — who are overwhelmingly low - income students of color — are attending schools where it is not likely that they will go on to college or career.

How many more resources would be available to the non-Jewish students of color who get by on a paltry $ 13K a year — not much more than Lakewood is paying for one student at Orchos Chaim per month — and attend a high school where 7 percent of students reach grade - level proficiency in math?

As a result, many more students of color would be likely to attend schools with inadequate resources, ineffective teachers, and larger class sizes in the early grades.

As a result, many students of color would be forced to attend low - performing public schools without other viable school options.

Antonio and so many other students all over North Carolina represent the most vulnerable students in our state: students of color who have experienced trauma and attend low - performing schools.

al. explains that in the South where 38 percent of the US population is educated, students of color make up the majority of those attending public schools.

There was a subtle but monumental change to the advice given during the second session, which was primarily attended by students of color (blackboys).

Additionally, as 90 % of students attending charter schools are students of color, and the New York Charter Schools Act directly targets populations that tend to be overwhelmingly comprised of minorities, the Plaintiffs also alleged that the funding scheme has a disproportionate and discriminatory impact on minority students.

If you're a regular reader of this blog, you know of Lakewood's sordid history of shortchanging poor students of color trapped in dysfunctional schools run by a Board that privileges Orthodox children who attend private and unaccountable Jewish yeshivas.

Presently, incarceration disproportionately impacts people of color, and students of color disproportionately attend schools with fewer resources and less experienced teachers.

PARENT POLL Poll: Schools with mostly white teachers are not trying to educate students of color: usnews.com/news/education… Parents of color see their kids as attending white supremacist school systems huffingtonpost.com/entry/parents-… -LSB-...]

The bespoke Wraith is coated in «English White» paint that's said to be matched to the same color found on the shirts of students who attend Rugby School, the boarding school in the U.K. that was the birthplace of the eponymous sport.