Sentences with phrase «wide racial gaps»

And that dynamic makes it more difficult for us to close our wide racial gaps in college attainment and student debt.

Despite the high - profile tension between Mayor Bill de Blasio and the police department, Mr. de Blasio's approval rating remains steady at 49 percent, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today — but a wide racial gap persists.

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And the racial gap gets wider every time we ask,» said Carroll.

Holt asked the candidates how they plan to «bridge a wide and bitter gap» when it comes to racial tensions in America.

The rosy proclamation obscured the fact that racial achievement gaps were nearly as wide as when he entered the White House.

Recent developments have galvanized people anew to address the racial achievement gap, from a jarring 2013 report called» Race to Equity» that showed the gulf in quality of life between whites and blacks is wider here than nationally, to the current «Black Lives Matter» movement, which has called out racial inequities in numerous public institutions, including schools.

I was a statistical anomaly growing up in New Orleans: a black boy from a relatively well - off family in a city with one of the widest racial wealth gaps in the country.

The plans focuses on schools ranked among the very lowest performers on state tests, now called Priority Schools, or those with the widest gaps in achievement between different racial groups and other groups of children, labeled as Focus Schools.