Sentences with phrase «higher needs populations of»

Higher needs populations of students as defined in Vincent v. Voight (FRL, SpN, ELL) are at a greater funding and spending disadvantage than their more affluent peers since 2004.

International Community High School, serves a high needs population of recent immigrants in the South Bronx.

Not exact matches

A much higher birth rate of 2.1 births is needed just to keep the population from declining.

Her message: high - ranking women need to help women in middle management (they make up about 37 % of mid-career ranks) to advance to the top tier (where women comprise about 27 % of the population).

Zipcar's services are typically offered large cities around the world, with high populations of millennials who either can't afford a car, or don't see the need to own one in the city.

In a seven page report released Friday, Beata Caranci says the need for financial literacy has never been higher because of record low interest rates and household debt growing faster than income, something the millennial population seems unprepared to deal with.

As the world population grows, farmers will not only need to meet increasing demands of food, but also keep nutritional values high.

Beingmate chairman Wang Zhentai said: «Working together with Fonterra, we will create globally competitive, safe and secure supply chains to deliver high - quality, advanced dairy nutrition to meet the needs of China's growing population as well global consumers.

Food production will need to double by 2050 to meet the rising demands of a growing population and growing income.77 78 Coupled with the supply constraints discussed under A less predictable planet, and the high levels of food waste and food loss, value chains are being forced to become more efficient.

Numerous reports have emphasized the need for major changes in the global food system: agriculture must meet the twin challenge of feeding a growing population, with rising demand for meat and high - calorie diets, while simultaneously minimizing its global environmental impacts1, 2.

And even if very athletic kids need an usually high number of calories, should their unique needs dictate calorie limits for the rest of the student population, which is unfortunately quite sedentary?

Next we heard from Mark Terry, who gave a compelling comparison of his old school district — a low SES urban district with a high ELL population, an 85 % free / reduced qualifying rate, and a high need for meal and nutrition education services — and his current district, which is more affluent with a much lower free / reduced qualification rate and a community of parents who have high expectations for student success and a healthy lifestyle.

Administrators at Buffalo Grove and Stevenson High Schools face a daunting task in trying to meet the needs of their large and diverse populations.

In 1993, I was lucky enough to be able to found a private high school in Los Angeles to meet the needs of this population.

But auditors — and Children's Centre staff themselves — felt they needed to do more to identify and provide outreach services to families with high levels of need, and the NAO found that «less progress was being made in improving services for fathers, parents of children with disabilities, and for ethnic minorities in areas with smaller minority populations».

We don't see the need to manage any of the sequelae of blood loss... So we may as well make it so that the amount of blood loss required to trigger a transfer is higher for our population».

WeSpeak is thrilled to respond to the high demand for and meet the needs of older children with selective mutism (SM) and their parents by being the first ever program to off a curriculum - based group intensive treatment for this population.

What Labour needs is a new social democratic revisionism, that heavily focuses on restructuring the welfare state, to unite communitarian and cosmopolitan voters, in an era of globalization, high inequalities, increased demands for choice, and an ageing population This requires applying the principles of solidarity, reciprocity and individual empowerment, in relation to reforming the welfare state, to make it more effective at tackling poverty and providing economic security, and to satisfy rising demands for choice.

The downtowns selected should be high needs areas that have «experienced a loss of population and high unemployment,» said Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul, who chairs each regional council and attended Tuesday's meeting at Hofstra University.

This strongly suggests we need to start looking for other reasons why we perceive such disproportionately high levels of euroscepticism in the British population.

Under the need - based formula recommended by the Medicaid Redesign Team in 2013, hospitals serving a higher concentration of Medicaid patients were meant to receive richer funding from the pool — as a way of directing more funds to institutions serving poorer populations.

Complicating this task is the diversity of needs within the inmate population, the daily processing of inmates through the intake and release functions, and the necessity of maintaining the safety and security of staff, inmates, and the community, which carries a high degree of liability.

Mrs Bawumia bemoaned what she termed the high rate of teenage pregnancy and emphasized the need to prioritize the health of adolescents, who constitute 29.3 per cent of the country's population.

He and Krause also think that Willerslev's study needs to be confirmed with higher resolution sequencing to rule out contamination, and to have more population genetics modeling explain the distribution of these genetic types.

«It is ideal to house monkeys together for their social welfare, but we also need to consider the fertility of these animals, which is typically high, and be able to make responsible decisions on population size» explains Angela Colagross - Schouten, lead veterinarian on the project.

Could growing crops on high - rise buildings feed growing urban populations, thereby sparing the need to cultivate more and more tracts of land?

Borrelli concludes, «Our data points to the need for future research investigating why smoking prevalence is so high in this population, as well as the best methods of smoking cessation treatment for this population.

Their traditionally low - budget science, which needs only pencil and paper to tally shared traits in the classical twin studies, has entered the high - tech world of genetic epidemiology, which traces the power of genes to influence the health of populations.

It needs to be repeated in another population, and we need a better understanding of how high the exposures really were in that population.

«All patients of all races do better at the trauma centers treating white majority populations, so this research tells us we need to direct attention to hospitals with higher mortality rates to help them improve their outcomes, or we won't ever be able to turn this around.»

«Our population in this trial also had a high response rate in the control group, so further studies are needed in broader populations to assess the efficacy of buprenorphine implants versus sublingual buprenorphine in other settings.»

... Finally, this study draws attention to the need for large controlled clinical trials to determine if a combination of fall prevention strategies and treatment with bone - active drugs might produce additive benefits on fractures, especially in high - risk populations such as those living in nursing homes.

The researchers note that 40 percent of patients at state psychiatric inpatient hospitals have a diagnosis of schizophrenia, while nearly 20 percent experience a longer hospital stay — «suggesting a high - risk population needing special attention.»

«The existing totality of evidence suggests an urgent need to increase the use of varenicline in the general population as well as in those with serious mental illness who on average die about 20 years earlier than the general population, in part, because their smoking rates may be as high as 75 percent,» said Hennekens.

First, because insomnia is a common problem and often chronic in duration, a large portion of the population would need long - term screening for the possible development of high blood pressure.

«We worked with the hypothesis that a population of high - energy electrons already existed and would need only one last «push» to start emitting radio waves.

Populations that arise from just a few individuals, however, tend to have members that share a relatively high percentage of DNA — a lack of genetic diversity that can strip them of the evolutionary resources that they may someday need to respond to a deadly new disease, a change in climate, or some other challenge.

«If you want to come up with social policy to address the need to decrease our out - of - control opioid prescribing, this would be the population you want to study, because they're getting the bulk of the opioids, and then they are known to be at higher risk for the bad stuff,» he said.

«Many of these deaths could be prevented if high - impact and affordable solutions reached the populations that needed them most,» says study leader Robert Black, PhD, a professor in the Department of International Health at the Bloomberg School.

«With the aging population, increasing prevalence of co-morbidities and a growing need for concomitant valve surgery, heart bypass is being performed in an increasingly high - risk patient population.

Future research is needed to establish the benefits of the program across different age groups and populations, for example, college versus high school students.

The researchers caution that as all participants in this study were university students, further research is needed to be able to generalize the findings to individuals with high levels of psychopathic traits in other populations.

While high - risk Medicaid patients represent a small percentage of Partners» total patient population, their complex needs consume a full fifth of total healthcare spending.

High contrast images facilitate robust automatic tracking and behavioural analysis of hundreds of individual cells within heterogeneous cell populations is now possible without the need for intrusive dyes or labels, bringing unique morphological, temporal, and dynamic phenotypic data to your research.

Nevertheless, public health agencies in high risk areas need to plan, implement and evaluate active reporting of mosquito populations and clinical surveillance by local doctors.

Since efforts to save even one human life are worthwhile and critical, these same authorities, both existing and newly elected, should play a proactive role in the prevention of future suicidal acts by better assessing the needs of the population and of individuals at high risk for suicide.»

Previous research has demonstrated that the oral arginine needed may be as high as 11 grams, which is not sustainable from a patient compliance perspective in order to achieve a pharmocodynamically effective level of 1650 mgs needed by the majority of the patient population to raise the endothelial NO.

So Id hv to DISAGREE with this entire article, maybe do some more research, because jist adding the proper amounts of ascorbic acid (vitamin C) can almost cure heart disease, clogged arteries, high cholesterol, and thats just a few things that only the right amount of just one vitamin the general population is lacking, you could eat an entire bag of organic oranges, and not even come close to the amount of vitamin C the average person needs in one day.

This doesn't even take into account factors that may be depleting these nutrients at a higher rate (stress, chemical exposure, etc) and that the «Estimated Average Requirement» is the amount needed for only 50 % of the population to have adequate intake.

In contrast, Gillespie explains, the Jewish population of Israel has, probably unwittingly through the need to eat only kosher food with its significant restrictions on animal products, the world's highest concentration of polyunsaturated fats in their diet (In 1996, 12 % of energy consumed compared with about 5 % in Australia at that time.)