Sentences with phrase «white parents sent»

Many white parents sent children to local elementary schools and then pulled them out for high school, leaving many D.C. high schools overwhelmingly black and Hispanic.

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Stoneman Douglas survivor Samuel Zeif, who attended the listening session at the White House, said that on the day of the shooting he was on the second floor of the building, sending text messages to his parents and three of his brothers «that I was never going to see them again.»

Crumbling urban schools yet those white liberals shot down the voucher progran giving black parents a chance to send their child to a private school for a better education.

Most parents, black or white, were reluctant to send their children out of their neighborhoods to attend distant schools, especially when those schools were perceived, often correctly, as educationally inferior or even physically unsafe.

Yesterday, my parents sent me the dreamiest bouquet of pale peach roses, white hydrangeas, and black and white anemones.

You would want your college sports played the way they were at the turn of the 20th century — by the white guys whose parents were wealthy enough to send them to an elite college.

In other words, parents of means (white, Black, Latino, Asian) are happy to send their kids to school with poor students (of various religions).

The return of many white, upper - middle - class, educated parents — and their young children — to city centers has caused some urban districts, like those in Philadelphia, Chicago, and Boston, to actively encourage these families to send their children to local district schools.

Everywhere, except in the most exceptional cases, we have seen the resistance of suburban white parents to sending their children to inner - city schools with near majorities or majorities of black children.

Jules White, a West Sussex head teacher who co-ordinated letters sent to 2.5 million parents over school funding concerns, says too often schools policy has been sidetracked by «dubious ideological pursuits» or «tinkering around the edges».

Mr White, a West Sussex head teacher who has co-ordinated letters sent to 2.5 million parents over school funding concerns, says that whoever is education secretary needs to make a priority of teacher supply and funding.

Adam Kelley, an eighth - grader at Roland Park who lives on a predominantly white street in the neighborhood, said he was glad his parents chose not to send him to a private school where most students look like him.

And I thought the introduction to a recent interview of the NYT's Nikole Hannah - Jones by Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg overstated the role of charter schools as a method for white parents to avoid sending their kids to schools with black and brown children.

Yet at the heart of this pedagogical desire was really a need to attract white parents, parents who otherwise wouldn't send their children to urban schools.

This suggests that White parents may not have wanted to send their children to schools in areas high in minority populations.

Maggie's and Clancy's Pet - Parents sent us this adorable photo of the dogs wearing their red, white and blue!

Stoneman Douglas survivor Samuel Zeif, who attended the listening session at the White House, said that on the day of the shooting he was on the second floor of the building, sending text messages to his parents and three of his brothers «that I was never going to see them again.»