Sentence examples for disadvantaged minorities from inspiring English sources

The government is opposed to the creation of affirmative action programs for disadvantaged minorities.

Much of the effort pursued longstanding partisan goals like eliminating programs for disadvantaged minorities, rather than real deficit reduction.

The protection of disadvantaged minorities may be a worthy goal, but so too is the promotion of free expression.

Some scholars worry that the growth in multiracial applicants could further erode the original intent of affirmative action, which is to help disadvantaged minorities.

The medical school at the University of California, Davis, had set aside a specified number of seats for historically disadvantaged minorities.

To list a few examples, it has disowned affirmative action, finding no difference between Jim Crow and laws designed to help disadvantaged minorities.

Of the test-takers, disadvantaged minority students usually score lower than whites, who are mostly middle class, even when scores of both groups are rising.

Still, Bennet was struck by the fact that a few schools across the country had raised the test scores of their poor and minority student bodies — successes that seemed counter to the idea that underlying social conditions had to be redressed before disadvantaged minority students could do well.

Still, Bennet was struck by the fact that a few schools across the country had raised the test scores of their poor and minority student bodies successes that seemed counter to the idea that underlying social conditions had to be redressed before disadvantaged minority students could do well.

Schools should have to report the test performance of students in each racial and ethnic group, but sanctions based on one group's performance should be withheld until there is real evidence that disadvantaged minority students are being allowed to lag behind.

When the observation embraces majority and (disadvantaged) minority groups, the result is a strong polarization in their educational and occupational statuses.