Sentences with phrase «kids in poverty get»

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We are outside the four walks and absolutely love living in the liberty of the Spirit... we get to serve kids at poverty level and have become good friends with them... it's refreshing to be accepted by them when rejected by the religious leaders in town for not going on Sunday to their building.

You see fewer and fewer kids who grew up in poverty who are getting into those schools and those programs.

They largely refused to acknowledge that poverty rather than school quality was the root cause of the educational problems of disadvantaged kids, for fear that saying so would merely reinforce a long - standing belief among public educators that students unlucky enough to live in poverty shouldn't be expected to achieve at high levels — and public educators shouldn't be expected to get them there.

«We've got schools that need to serve kids in poverty, we've got water systems exploding,» he said.

01, Ed.D.» 05, vice president for national affairs at the Ounce of Prevention Fund, a nonprofit that gives kids living in poverty a chance to get a high - quality early education.

Too many U.S. kids get involved with alcohol, sex, and tobacco at young ages, and live in poverty or unsafe conditions or attend unsafe schools, Dr. Benson maintains.

They never get around to explaining why, in California, 52 percent of students attending charters that serve a majority of high poverty kids are in the top quartile of all public schools statewide as opposed to just 26 percent of similar students attending traditional public schools.

Twenty - five percent of rural children live in poverty, and parents of some 3 million kids say they wish they could afford or get to after school programs — that's before the cuts he proposes.

Taking job creation, workforce development, transportation, healthcare, etc out of the conversation about kids in poverty (these aspects get little attention compared to schooling, even health doesn't come close) because schooling will take care of all that is just playing into the hands of corporate and wealthy interests.

«Kids in poverty need to have the most credentialed, effective teachers if they're going to get out of poverty,» she said.

· More Students Get Meals: Gives 115,000 more students access to free and reduced meals programs · Meal Program Process Easier: Cuts the paperwork and administrative hassle that goes along with providing free and reduced meals to students in high poverty areas based on census data · Meals for Foster Kids: Foster children are now automatically eligible in school meal programs · Meals for After School Programs: Expands USDA support of meal programs in at - risk after school programs

«But I think all of us in public education: moms, dads, teachers, principals, and board members need to be focused on the number one priority which is educating kids and how we do that better, how do we improve outcomes, raise children out of poverty, get them to graduation, college, and career.

You can get help teaching kids in poverty.

we get food stamps to eat every month, and have no extra to buy our kids anything for fun or eating out, or enjoy a day out.The house is falling apart, its cold in the winter becouse i cant afford to buy feuel if we want a roof over our heads so take your pick.We live here in America and live at the brink of poverty with no end or hope in sight.