Sentences with phrase «kids in poverty need»

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

Not exact matches

The business officials agreed that enrollment is down overall, but «high need» districts with lots of kids in poverty or those who don't speak English are seeing an increase, which also helps push up overall costs.

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

Here, little orphan Annie is living with a vaguely - abusive stepmother (played awfully by Cameron Diaz) in Harlem, which is portrayed here in a way that sidesteps the real life poverty of many of the real neighbourhoods because, hey, this is a kids film and we don't need to depress them about life.

Our basic assumption was that K12's model — which relied on parents or other caretakers doing most of the instruction — wouldn't be feasible for kids living in poverty, most of whom would need the custodial care offered by traditional public schools.

The «naughty» kids are likely children dealing with too much in their lives - poverty, parental mental ill health, lack of appropriate attachment opportunities - and for these children, the minimum expectations need to be different to those children who have less adversity in their lives.

We need to meet kids where they are, and that means recognizing that fully half of all public school students live in poverty.

Kids growing up in poverty and fragile families, and dysfunctional communities need a whole lot more than kids living with affluence and stabilKids growing up in poverty and fragile families, and dysfunctional communities need a whole lot more than kids living with affluence and stabilkids living with affluence and stability.

With an unrelenting belief in what kids can achieve — despite race, poverty, or zip code — we will see the needle move urgently in the state of South Carolina for the kids who need it most.

Maame's family members run Mother's Love Kids Foundation Centre, a preschool in a high - poverty, high - need area in the town of Obuasi that serves 186 students ages 2 - 5.

In districts with poverty, charters with a conservative and patriotic milieu, attract far fewer undocumented kids and students who need free lunch.

We have far too many Black kids in high poverty and high need who don't have the tools that we've said our communities have been providing and that our school system has been delivering.

Classroom behavior problems from with kids from poverty are based in the very same issues as with the non-poor (need for structure, clear rules, and consistent enforcement).

«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.

From the nefarious achievement gaps, to the racial isolation in our increasingly segregated schools; from the digital divide that results in kids not having access to computers, to the poverty gulf that results in kids not having homes; from boys» reading difficulties and girls» problems with math, to the disparities among rural, suburban, and urban school needs — these gaps present baffling problems.

a) use poverty as an excuse to maintain the status quo and b) think kids living in poverty can't learn and c) want to spend years solving a problem that needs fixing NOW

«We need to look at all kids in poverty, but especially look at those in extreme poverty - those are where resources are most immediately needed.»