Sentences with phrase «white schools in»

«I come from the era of black kids who were the first to be accepted into white schools in South Africa.

The Priestley site on Leonidas would symbolize social change, many said — traditionally, white schools in New Orleans were built on major thoroughfares like Leonidas, while black schools were tucked behind them in the neighborhood, like Johnson.

Majority - white schools in Minnesota have half as many nontenured teachers as schools with large numbers of black, Asian, Hispanic or American Indian students, according to the Department of Education.

«In actuality,» writes historian Robert A. Pratt, «race was the only criterion considered; the Pupil Placement Board assigned very few black students to white schools in Virginia while it remained in operation.»

Even after things settled down, a sharp racial division was carved between the predominantly minority schools in central cities and the overwhelmingly white schools in suburban areas.

Sherman Alexie's humorous, semiautobiographical novel follows 14 - year - old Junior as he leaves his school on the Spokane Indian Reservation for a mostly white school in a nearby town.

In one public school, six black students left using LSP vouchers, thereby «reinforcing the school's racial identity as a white school in a predominantly black school district.»

However, during an interview for a teaching position at the Robert White School in Boston, he was met the question, «If you're so good, why don't you change education in this country?»

The [DOJ's] petition also cites Cecilia Primary School, which in 2012 - 13 «lost six black students as a result of the voucher program,» thereby «reinforcing the school's racial identity as a white school in a predominantly black school district.»

Ludicrously, the initial brief pointed to only two examples: a school that «lost six black students as a result of the voucher program,» thereby «reinforcing the school's racial identity as a white school in a predominantly black school district,» and a disproportionately black school that «lost» five white students.

Stoneman Douglas is a mostly white school in a mostly upper - middle - class area.

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Sam Zeif, a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida who survived last week's mass shooting, delivered an impassioned plea for stricter gun control during a White House listening session with President Donald Trump on Wednesday.

In 2012, White had an entrepreneurial vision and decided to open her own boarding school.

Several students and parents affected by school shootings including last week's massacre at a high school in Parkland, Florida, attended a listening session with President Donald Trump at the White House on Wednesday.

While classmates at her all - white elite high school breezed into adulthood and homeownership with help from their parents, she «bought my first home as a co-signer to my grandmother who was next on the list of longtime renters in our gentrifying neighborhood... to be displaced.»

Many more use its white - label products every day in restaurants, hotels, schools and office buildings.

If copies of the book start to appear in the Justice Department and on law school syllabi, Eisinger could spark important debate about why — at a time when so many people struggle to obtain basic procedural rights in the criminal justice system — white - collar defendants manage to consistently evade its grasp.

Andrew Wright, a professor at Savannah Law School who was an associate in the White House counsel's office under President Barack Obama, said he was «glad to see the Trump administration acknowledging the legitimacy of the findings of our intelligence community and the Mueller grand jury: that Russians illegally interfered with our elections.»

It's that millennials and African - Americans and a lot of social justice - oriented white people and a lot of white people who are working class really were progressive and they really were open to a message that was things like «no death penalty,» «put the money back in schools,» «mass incarceration,» and «stop taking people's property unjustifiably.»

Still, Graham ended racially segregated seating at his Southern crusades in 1953, a year before the Supreme Court's school integration ruling, and long refused to visit South Africa while its white regime insisted on racially segregated meetings.

Others were sure it was a Michigan man who, according to Facebook, attended high school with other white nationalist demonstrators depicted in photos from Charlottesville.

In a recent article in Time, Martha White covered the rise of prepaid offerings on college campuses and the benefits some of these schools may receive from marketing them to studentIn a recent article in Time, Martha White covered the rise of prepaid offerings on college campuses and the benefits some of these schools may receive from marketing them to studentin Time, Martha White covered the rise of prepaid offerings on college campuses and the benefits some of these schools may receive from marketing them to students.

As Vancouver Sun investigative reporter David Baines revealed in a series of articles, Eker has invited the likes of Milowe Brost, who is currently in prison awaiting trial over an alleged $ 400 - million Ponzi scheme in Alberta, convicted white - collar criminal Nick Thill, Michael Ruge, who was banned for life from dealing in securities by the BCSC, and Nick Lathigee, head of the failed Freedom Investment Club, to present at his «Millionaire School» events and received commissions for steering investors in their direction.

President of Matuson Consulting firm Roberta Chinsky Matuson weighs in on statements made in a recently released white paper titled Uncovering Talent by New York University School of Law Professor Kenji Yoshino and Deloitte University Leadership Center for Inclusion Managing Principal Christie Smith.

All three White House kids moved during the school year and attended the Sidwell Friends, a private school in northwest Washington.

Last year, in a white paper called «The Owner's Journey,» Columbia Business School's Barbara Roberts and Murray Low found that many entrepreneurs experience a postpartum - like sadness upon selling their companies.

He said he will live in the White House and wife Melania Trump and 10 - year - old son Barron will move «right after he finishes school.»

Savannah Law School professor Andrew Wright, former associate counsel in the Obama White House, said it is unusual for a president to turn to lawyers like Ekonomou who are untested on the national scene and not part of the elite white - collarWhite House, said it is unusual for a president to turn to lawyers like Ekonomou who are untested on the national scene and not part of the elite white - collarwhite - collar bar.

«It strengthens the hand of investors in other price - fixing cases based on benchmarks that were reached in collaborative, or outright collusive, arrangements,» said Lawrence White, a professor at New York University's Stern School of Business.

The White House proposed «red flag» laws that would allow law enforcement officials to remove firearms from people who are deemed a danger to themselves or others in hopes of preventing shootings like the one at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

FOR Perth - based white board manufacturer Hans Fruh, a decision to visit the Middle East and try his hand with cold calls to office and school equipment suppliers listed in the local «yellow pages» has paid off handsomely.

Cruz, who is white, was never a part of that program and was eventually expelled from school due to his actions, making it an unusual focus in the debate that has followed the shooting.

Mother and son broke with tradition by living at Trump Tower in New York since the inauguration so that Barron, now 11, could finish the school year uninterrupted; the president lived and worked at the White House.

A recent report by the Academy of Finland warned that some schools in the country's large cities were becoming more skewed by race and class as affluent, white Finns choose schools with fewer poor, immigrant populations.

BuzzFeed has become the envy of the media world for its seemingly magical ability to engineer stories and ads that are shared widely — whether it's a dress that looks to be either white and gold or blue and black, an investigation into taxpayer - funded «ghost schools» in Afghanistan, or an older cat imparting wisdom to a kitten on behalf of Purina.

Many of the schools are located in Rochester, Syracuse, Binghamton, Poughkeepsie and White Plains.

Andrew Pollack, father of slain Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student Meadow Jade Pollack, joined by his sons, speaks during a listening session with President Donald Trump, high school students, teachers and others in the State Dining Room of the White House on Feb. 21,School student Meadow Jade Pollack, joined by his sons, speaks during a listening session with President Donald Trump, high school students, teachers and others in the State Dining Room of the White House on Feb. 21,school students, teachers and others in the State Dining Room of the White House on Feb. 21, 2018.

«Today, they know male, white, Caucasian, in a hoodie, looks like a geek, comes from an Ivy League or equivalent school.

In an interview with the South Florida Sun Sentinel, Menescal said the blood on her white pants jolted her out of denial — she couldn't believe she was experiencing a school shooting.

President Donald Trump pauses during a meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House, in Washington, Feb. 28, 2018, with members of congress to discuss school and community safety.

On Thursday, news broke that Nikolas Cruz, the 19 - year - old suspect in the Florida school shooting, had trained with a white supremacist militia called the Republic of Florida.

In this week's roundup: lots of confusion over whether the Florida school shooter was a white supremacist, the argument for being friends with racists and more.

For the past month, seventeen white crosses and stars of David have stood on a stately hill along the fence outside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, each festooned in posters and balloons, handwritten notes and flowers.

Survivors, students, and parents of victims of past school shootings — including the most recent massacre in Parkland, Florida, where a gunman murdered 17 — gathered at the White House to share their stories and ideas for protecting students from gun violence.

Vitalik Buterin has partnered with CCRG founding directors Aaron White, a professor at the Cardozo School of Law in New York, and Kieren James - Lubin, a PhD student in mathematical physics at the University of Berkley in California.

The shooting in Florida prompted the White House to highlight the administration's actions as students from the school included Mr. Trump among the politicians they criticized for failing to keep them safe.

According to a recent NBC News / Wall Street Journal poll, the NRA's popularity with key groups took a hit after the mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida, in February, including among white married women, seniors and more moderate Republicans.

Recent school safety proposals introduced after Parkland — like potentially arming some teachers and staff — also ignore that students of color, especially black students, are more likely to face discipline and punishment in schools than their white peers, and that many of these disparities could be exacerbated by recent proposals to arm teachers or increase school security.

Cash and several others from his school came to the march clad in matching white t - shirts with the words «Parkway for Parkland» emblazoned on the front above a red heart.

«This is not, «Oh, let's just try to protect white kids in white high schools and white areas.»