Sentences with phrase «against lower income children»

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The same Miranda who is against charter schools for low income children?

Against that background, if the government does decide to stigmatise those on the lowest incomes by turning child benefit into a purse only for the poor, it may be surprised at the scale and the anger of the opposition.

Newspeak plays a central role in the latest Center for American Progress (CAP) broadside against the idea of low - income parents choosing private schools for their children (because, you know, freedom is slavery).

Newspeak plays a central role in the latest Center for American Progress (CAP) broadside against the idea of low - income parents choosing private schools for their children.

Filed by brave western New York families of charter - school children and backed by the Northeast Charter Schools Network, Brown says the formula used to fund charter schools discriminates against these children, who are overwhelmingly lower income and black or Hispanic.

And families and educators are starting to push back against the model of charter school that has dominated in some communities, including New Orleans: That model, its critics argue, is segregated by design in that it's created specifically for low - income minority children.

Many researchers worry that I.Q. tests are biased against low - income and nonwhite children, and some recommend a more holistic approach that includes teacher referrals.

In Massachusetts, it's the business - oriented liberals in places such as Wellesley and the low - income / minority Democrat - voting Boston parents whose children attend charters who will vote to raise the cap versus the union - oriented liberals and the «progressive» Democrats concentrated in the Pioneer Valley voting against.

The State of Washington will be holding a press conference on August 18, 2015 at 10 am to release the disaggregated district - level results for their state which will undoubtedly reveal that the SBAC test particularly discriminates against children from low - income homes, children who face English language barriers and children who need special education services.

I probably cover Lakewood's morally and fiscally bankrupt schools too often, but this Ocean County school district that enrolls almost entirely Latino and Black low - income students pushes all my education reform buttons: tyranny of the majority (in this case the ultra-Orthodox residents who control the municipal government and the school board); lack of accountability; lack of school choice for poor kids of color but anything goes (at public expense) for children of the ruling class; discrimination against minority special education students.

These included characteristics on multiple levels of the child's biopsychosocial context: (1) child factors: race / ethnicity (white, black, Hispanic, and Asian / Pacific Islander / Alaska Native), age, gender, 9 - month Bayley Mental and Motor scores, birth weight (normal, moderately low, or very low), parent - rated child health (fair / poor vs good / very good / excellent), and hours per week in child care; (2) parent factors: maternal age, paternal age, SES (an ECLS - B — derived variable that includes maternal and paternal education, employment status, and income), maternal marital status (married, never married, separated / divorced / widowed), maternal general health (fair / poor versus good / very good / excellent), maternal depression (assessed by the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale at 9 months and the World Mental Health Composite International Diagnostic Interview at 2 years), prenatal use of tobacco and alcohol (any vs none), and violence against the mother; (3) household factors: single - parent household, number of siblings (0, 1, 2, or 3 +), language spoken at home (English vs non-English), neighborhood good for raising kids (excellent / very good, good, or fair / poor), household urbanicity (urban city, urban county, or rural), and modified Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment — Short Form (HOME - SF) score.

Maternal mental quality of life mediates the associations between intimate partner abuse against mothers and their children's behaviours and quality of life in low - income Chinese families