Sentences with phrase «white enrollment»

They also have much larger black and Hispanic enrollment shares and lower white enrollment shares.

An influx of Hispanics and Asian - Americans and the sharp decline of white enrollment in many districts have challenged the assumptions...

White parents tend to choose schools with higher white enrollment, while black parents select schools with higher black enrollment.

Since 1968, the student enrollment of Hispanics has increased by 218 % and the enrollment of African Americans has grown by more than a fifth, while white enrollment has...

We don't know their benefits because, since the 1970s, when white enrollment in New Orleans public schools fell by over half and then half again in the following decade, most people have grown up in segregated, private, magnet and now choice / charter schools.

According to a 2016 analysis by the UCLA Civil Rights Project, the number of public schools with zero to 10 percent white enrollment has more than tripled six decades after Brown.

Eighty - two percent of new white enrollments attended these schools, while only 13 percent and 9 percent of new Hispanic and black enrollments, respectively, attended them.

Although district officials claim that these schools are integrated, and reflect the racial makeup of the district, this study found that this claim did not bear out: two of the magnet schools have 28 to 30 percent larger white enrollments than the district elementary white average, while the other has four times the district number of Hispanics.

Finis Welch and Audrey Light published a study in 1987 that used 16 years of data on enrollments and desegregation program status to study in detail the changes in white enrollment surrounding the implementation of 116 major desegregation plans between 1967 and 1985.

In 2000, Montgomery became majority - minority, with white enrollment below 50 percent for the first time.

Historical data shows that Montgomery's white enrollment as a percentage of the entire student body — at more than 90 percent in 1971 — has dipped every year since, while the percentage of Hispanic students has been climbing since 1984.

In its place, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit on Nov. 7 ordered shifts in district boundaries that are expected to boost white enrollment in Little Rock from 29 percent of the total to 43 percent.

Schools in my sample showed three main patterns in changes in racial demographics from their opening year through 2009; schools that increased black enrollment and lost white enrollment, schools that lost black students but increased white and Latino enrollment, and schools that maintained stable enrollments across racial groups.

By 1961, Baltimore schools had changed from an overwhelmingly white enrollment to a mostly black population and still had many segregated schools.

Since 1968, the student enrollment of Hispanics has increased by 218 % and the enrollment of African Americans has grown by more than a fifth, while white enrollment has decreased by a sixth.

The decline in this measure during the 1990s resulted from the continued decline in the white enrollment share.

A pronounced increase in Hispanic and Asian public - school enrollment and consequent decline in the white enrollment share, not a pattern of resegregation, has driven the fall in the exposure of black students to white schoolmates.

Among other findings, they concluded that 1) white enrollment declined much more in the year of plan implementation than in subsequent years, and 2) pairing and clustering, the desegregation technique that involved the joining of schools with initially very different black and white enrollment shares into a single attendance zone, produced the largest average white - enrollment losses surrounding plan implementation in the period of greatest desegregation activity.

For example, Jefferson County's white enrollment is 50 percent; in Dallas and Detroit, it's less than 5 percent.

Plans that are limited to central - city school districts, regardless of whether they require or merely encourage student busing, have had difficulty maintaining previous integration gains in the face of declining white enrollments, the study said.

By contrast, the district's white enrollment is five times higher (16 percent vs. 3 percent) than the charter sector's.

«New York has the most segregated schools in the country: in 2009, black and Latino students in the state had the highest concentration in intensely - segregated public schools (less than 10 % white enrollment), the lowest exposure to white students, and the most uneven distribution with white students across schools.

Recent enrollment data suggests that twenty years after the start of New Haven's interdistrict magnet program, only one of the city's interdistrict magnet high schools, ESUMS, is currently meeting the city's objectives of creating racially diverse schools with a minimum of 25 % white enrollment.

L.A. Unified also includes charters with high white enrollments; about half were traditional schools that already had high white enrollments when they became charters.