Sentences with phrase «use racial composition»

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.

«White parents may be avoiding school districts where black and Latino children live because they use racial composition as a proxy for quality of a school and a neighborhood,» she said.

Not exact matches

In a 2014 study, Stephen Billings and his colleagues used administrative data and variation in school assignments for students who lived on opposite sides of new catchment area boundaries in Charlotte - Mecklenburg, North Carolina, following the district's release from court supervision to identify the effects of changes in racial composition and school resources.

This is accomplished by using only that portion of the achievement of a gender or racial group that can not be explained by a linear time trend and the overall gender and racial composition of the group's cohort.

By contrast, the University of Arkansas researchers adopted a more rational definition of segregation that compares a school's racial composition to the larger metropolitan area using the U.S. Census Bureau's «core based statistical area» (CBSA).

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.

This paper examines the impact of jury racial composition on trial outcomes using a data set of felony trials in Florida between 2000 and 2010.

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.

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.»