Sentences with phrase «where racial minorities»
In a statement to be issued Tuesday, the caucus questioned why districts downstate were drawn with higher populations than upstate ones, effectively diluting the representation of areas where racial minorities are concentrated.
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While it can never be fair to will that members of a disfavored class - whether the unborn, the disabled, or members of some racial or religious minority group - be excluded from legal protections one wills for oneself and those dear to one, a legislator or voter is personally responsible for no unfairness to the victims of an objectively unjust law where he supports that law precisely, and only, because the alternative is even less protective of its victims.
Scientists have chronicled the impact of negative expectations in settings where they occur naturally, such as classrooms that «track» students from early youth and in society's treatment of stigmatized groups such as racial minorities, the poor, the elderly, the homeless, convicts and children with learning disabilities.
The AP report, published Monday and headlined «U.S. Charter Schools Put Growing Numbers in Racial Isolation,» says that «charters are vastly over-represented among schools where minorities study in the most extreme racial isolation.&Racial Isolation,» says that «charters are vastly over-represented among schools where minorities study in the most extreme racial isolation.&racial isolation.»
Berry, who is black, attended a Massachusetts boarding school where she often felt left out as a racial minority.
In the Northeast, 51.4 percent of black students attend schools where 90 percent to 100 percent of their classmates are racial minorities, up from 42.7 percent in 1968.
National enrollment data shows that charters are vastly over-represented among schools where minorities study in the most extreme racial isolation.
So most of their newly hired minority lawyers have relatively weak academic records that would have brought rejection had they been white -LSB-...] Many capable African - Americans experience frustration and failure because racial preferences thrust them into elite settings where they compete against whites with far better qualifications -LSB-...]