Sentences with phrase «white public elementary school»

«In 1960, six - year - old Ruby Bridges became the first African - American child to attend an all - white public elementary school in the South when she was escorted by U.S. marshals into William Frantz School in New Orleans.

I have a friend who was a child integrating a white public elementary school after the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964.

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Last night, my little public elementary school, Nettelhorst, hosted a public screening of the powerful new documentary Lunch Line, which follows six Chicago high school kids as they set out to fix school lunches — ending up at the White House.

A study of test scores in each of the city's public elementary schools finds that diversity does not erase achievement gaps between white and minority students.

In each state, and in both elementary grades and middle school grades, a significant portion of the aggregate difference in math proficiency can be accounted for by the fact that ELL students and white students tend not to attend the same public schools.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel continued to press for his expansion of the elementary school day in Chicago on August 25 during a Christian breakfast sponsored by Chicago Public Schools at U.S. Cellular Field, home of the Chicago White Sox.