Sentences with phrase «at high poverty»

The Equity issues were certainly present, particularly in regard to cuts to programing at high poverty schools and fee raises for Youth programs.

Not to mention that the lowest performing teachers were often those at high poverty schools, and there was not a long line highly effective teachers waiting to take those challenging positions.

I've long held that if teachers at high poverty schools could primarily focus on instruction you would see a change in the achievement - wealth connection.

He explains that this episode features a speech from Dr. María «Cuca» Robledo Montecel, IDRA executive director, at the High Poverty Schooling in America: Lessons in Second - Class Citizenship conference at the University of North School School of Law on October 13, 2006.

The district also repurposed an old golf cart — adding coolers, heaters, and ice bags — to bring dinner to students at high poverty schools who participate in after - school activities that may be spread out over a large campus.

The latest in our series on education, «What it Takes: Chasing Graduation at High Poverty High Schools,» examines the reason why nearly 20 percent of students don't finish high school.

Not exact matches

«Overall, we believe that growth is just simply not good enough, not good enough to reduce high unemployment still, not good enough to boost middle - class incomes, not good enough to drive poverty reduction,» Lagarde told reporters at the beginning of the semi-annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank.

And tipped waiters and bar tenders experience poverty at rates that are more than twice as high as non-tipped workers, according to the Economic Policy Institute.

«It's really very skewed toward higher - income families, which is the biggest problem with it,» says Angela Rachidi, a research fellow in poverty studies at the American Enterprise Institute.

To do this, we must take a look at all the factors that play into safeguarding our community from devastation, such as developing smart infrastructure, increasing mobility options, addressing the affordable housing crisis and closing the income inequality gap that is fueling high levels of poverty throughout Miami - Dade County.

By contrast to the so called middle - class tax cut which favours the more affluent, the CCB will have a positive impact upon the lamentably high rate of child poverty in Canada (which stood at 16.5 % in 2013), and will promote greater income equality among families with children.

But a closer look at the numbers reveals that B.C. continues to have the highest child poverty rate in the country, for the seventh...

But a closer look at the numbers reveals that B.C. continues to have the highest child poverty rate in the country, for the seventh year in a row.

The world for most part of it is in a rescission, Poverty is at a record high, the rich keep getting richer, people are dying from useless wars and gun violence, but the starw that broke the camels back (pardon the pun) is the name Mohammed.

At Vanderbilt the constituencies were reassured that the university was persisting in its primal Christian commitment because of high standards in academics, or a liberal or broad or thorough curriculum, or freedom from dogmatism, or the cultivation of moral character, or social conscience regarding racial integration or the relief of poverty, or decorum and discipline in fraternities and at football gameAt Vanderbilt the constituencies were reassured that the university was persisting in its primal Christian commitment because of high standards in academics, or a liberal or broad or thorough curriculum, or freedom from dogmatism, or the cultivation of moral character, or social conscience regarding racial integration or the relief of poverty, or decorum and discipline in fraternities and at football gameat football games.

«Not just in one country but in numerous Muslim countries, I have been able to walk in, head held high, no covert cover story and not only identify passively as a Christian but identify openly, work openly and hold serious talks about faith between Muslims and Christians, and not just at the grassroots level of poverty — people who needed my help — but also with the powerful and influential people who could have, in that moment, had me arrested and had me taken out back.»

Hispanics have seen some heartening gains over the last few years, with a decline in the poverty rate, an increase in annual income, and college attendance rates at a higher percentage than whites.

At the end of the first year of the Clinton Administration, the Census Bureau's Income and Poverty Report for 1993 found 39.3 million poor persons, the highest number since 1962.

Noonan et al (2005), examining the lives of families at high risk of living in poverty, found that having a young child in poor health reduced the father's probability of being employed by four percentage points.

Farrington's research background, plus her history as a teacher in high - poverty neighborhoods, helped her think differently about what happens to students when they're at school.

Roland Fryer, a celebrated young professor of economics at Harvard University, has spent the past decade testing out a variety of incentive schemes in experiments with public school students in Houston, New York, Chicago, and other American cities that have school systems with high poverty rates.

And like many other teachers at high - poverty schools, those at M.S. 45 had come to believe that with students as potentially disruptive as theirs, strong, dominant teacher control was the only way to keep the classroom calm and orderly; handing over the reins would mean chaos.

The Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) is a powerful new tool that allows high poverty schools and school divisions to offer breakfast and lunch to all students at no charge.

One significant victory in that battle was last year's passage of the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act which, among other things, uses Medicaid data to directly certify children for free and reduced price meals; helps states improve the certification process for school meal aid; allows universal free meals for students in high poverty communities; and expands USDA authority to support meals served to at - risk children in after school 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.

A study, commissioned by the depository and conducted by the University of Illinois at Chicago, determined which areas have the highest levels of poverty and the least access to emergency food.

Single fathers, on average, have higher incomes than single mothers and are far less likely to be living at or below the poverty line — 24 % versus 43 %.

As I note in this article, people who grow up in poverty experience high levels of stress, and may therefore be at high risk of developing stress - related diseases, atherosclerosis, autoimmune disorders, and cancer.

The Community Eligibility Program (CEP) is a meal service option for schools and school districts in low - income areas — allowing the nation's highest poverty schools and districts to serve breakfast and lunch at no cost to all enrolled students without the burden of collecting household applications.

By spring 2016, there were more than 18,000 high - poverty schools, serving 8.6 million children, offering breakfast and lunch at no charge to all students.

It allows school meals to be served free of charge to all students at high - poverty schools.

The sample was stratified by country and electoral ward type to over-represent families in Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, and wards with a high proportion of disadvantaged and ethnic minority families.19 Electoral wards were defined as ethnic minority (at least 30 % of population «Black» or «Asian», 1991 census), with the remainder defined as disadvantaged (upper quartile Child Poverty Index20) or advantaged (not in upper quartile Child Poverty Index).

Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine editor, will address the issues of poverty, education and the achievement gap, during a special presentation, 7 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 28 at Springfield High School.

Nestlé executives at the highest level of the company have refused to stop this process even though they know that babies fed on formula are more likely to become sick than breastfed babies and, in conditions of poverty, more likely to die.

Investigating successful kids and programs at low - income schools and high - achieving prep schools, as well as interviewing psychologists and neuroscientists, Tough challenges some conventional wisdom on causes of failure (poverty, teacher quality) and contends that nurturing character in children and young adults is the key to success.

For a city our size, we are 4th in the nation for highest childhood poverty levels at 44.3 % (behind only Cleveland, Detroit and Memphis).

With the latest US Census Report confirming that poverty is at a 52 - year high, with 27.4 % of African Americans living below the poverty line, it is hard to disagree.

That means that (at the current poverty level), the highest cost of a plan is $ 4,244 (cheaper than what you would currently pay for health care).

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.

He also signed his eighteenth Executive Order in September, mandating that county construction projects of over $ 250,000 and involving at least three workers include requirements to employ local and disadvantaged workers, including workers from high - poverty zip codes in the county.

At a time when the corporate education reformers like Governor Cuomo scapegoat teachers, underfund public schools, and push high - stakes testing linked to Common Core as way to justify the expansion of privately - managed charter schools, she has persistently brought forth real facts about how poverty, segregation, and inequitable school funding affect testing and achievement in public schools.

«I hate to compare, but given the innovations he has carried out at IITA and how he has taken it a notch higher the development ladder, I must say that Dr. Sanginga understands the critical role of agriculture research institutes in our continent's grim battle against the scourge of hunger and poverty, more than any of his predecessors.

At 8:30 a.m., Board of Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa and Regent Judith Chin will participate in a panel discussion on a new study by the Learning Policy Institute and the National Education Policy Center showing that well - implemented community schools can lift achievement in high - poverty communities, Teachers College, Columbia University, Joyce Berger Cowin Auditorium, Broadway, Manhattan.

The Bawku Central Member of Parliament, Mahama Ayariga, has sued the Akufo - Addo administration at the Supreme Court over the implementation of some of its key initiatives such as the Infrastructure for Poverty Eradication Programme (IPEP), Free Senior High School, Planting for Food and Jobs as well as the operations of existing agencies like the Microfinance and Small Loans Center (MASLOC)...

It is one of many factors that contribute to unacceptably high rates of poverty of female - headed households and an issue at the core of YWCA work throughout the state, particularly in Upstate NY where gender pay inequity is greatest.

These included: the need to examine the best ways to tackle anti-social behaviour; putting industrial democracy back at the forefront of our economic policies; giving a higher profile to fuel poverty; the need to spend more on social housing; and a desire to talk about policy to those with similar perspectives from outside the Liberal Democrats.

Dr Philip Withington at the University of Cambridge has found that affluence rather than poverty has tended to drive consumption levels, especially among the middle classes and higher, even though legislation and enforcement is often focused on the poorer parts of the population.

«Sweeping simplification of the state pension system is needed so that everyone can expect a decent, flat - rate pension, set at a level high enough to help most people avoid poverty without recourse to means - tested benefits.

She chose Syracuse as a subject after it landed at the top of the Century Foundation's list of cities with the highest concentrations of poverty.

Assemblyman Charles Barron — who represents part of Brooklyn — yelled at Cuomo, «He has a billion - dollar surplus, and the poverty is high.