Sentences with phrase «act on child poverty»

«The report shows that the need to act on child poverty as we enter recession is more compelling than ever.

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The prime minister and his government promised to end child poverty by 2020 — they need to act on that promise now.

So we will continue to make progress towards our historic goal of ending child poverty by 2020, building on the 2010 Child Povertychild poverty by 2020, building on the 2010 Child Poverpoverty by 2020, building on the 2010 Child PovertyChild PovertyPoverty Act.

Alongside UK - wide bills on matters such as child poverty and financial regulation, today's legislative programme included minor measures to increase Holyrood's powers, including extending its licensing of private security companies and introducing a 12 - month limit on legal cases against the Scottish government under the Human Rights Act.

For example, the English Poor Law implemented by Queen Elizabeth I in 1601 to provide food to the poor was severely curtailed by the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, based on Malthusian reasoning that helping the poor only encourages them to have more children and thereby exacerbate poverty.

The No Child Left Behind act is still the law of the land, and it most definitely rests on the principle that poverty is «no excuse» for low achievement.

That marks a significant milestone for education in this country in that we are now utterly focused on there being duties on national and local government to act to reduce the impact of poverty and inequality on children's learning.»

Others include the 1975 civil rights law mandating public education for special needs children, the bilingual education act of 1968, and the original civil rights education law, which passed in 1965 as part of President Johnson's war on poverty and mandated federal funding to states, equal access for all children, and higher standards.

As part of the «War on Poverty,» the Elementary and Secondary Education (ESEA) Act of 1965 was designed to direct federal education dollars to the most disadvantaged children living in pPoverty,» the Elementary and Secondary Education (ESEA) Act of 1965 was designed to direct federal education dollars to the most disadvantaged children living in povertypoverty.

For more than five decades, Congress has consistently recognized and acted on the need to promote fair and equal access to public schools for: children of color; children living in poverty; children with disabilities; homeless, foster and migrant children; children in detention; children still learning English; Native children; and girls as well as boys.

Between the intellectually schizophrenic claptrap on the No Child Left Behind Act from American Enterprise Institute scholar Rick Hess and Linda Darling - Hammond, Duke's Helen Ladd and Edward Fiske defense of the Poverty Myth of Education, and the otherwise thoughtful Whitney Tilson's misguided criticism of Republican and conservative school reformers, I am ready to head out on my vacation to relatively - sane American Ozarks, where I can be reminded once again that the Beltway is La - La Land without a tan.

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Home visiting has been part of the landscape of the United States since the late 1800s when home visitors were sent to the homes of the poor to act as exemplars on how to live appropriately.1 Beginning in the 1960s with the War on Poverty, the home visitor became a catalyst for addressing children's health and development through working with parents.1 In 2009, the field was estimated to include between $ 500 million and $ 750 million of state investment and served more than half a million children.2

The McKinney - Vento Act's Education for Homeless Children and Youth (EHCY) program and Title I Part A provide students experiencing homelessness with protections and services to ensure they can enroll in and attend school, complete their high school education, and continue on to higher education — their best hope of avoiding poverty and homelessness as adults.