The 21st Century Community Learning Centers (CCLC) Program provides federal funding for the establishment of community learning centers that provide academic, artistic and cultural enrichment opportunities — during non-school hours — for students, particularly those who
attend high poverty and low - performing schools, to meet state and local standards in core academic subjects such as reading, math and science.
Emmanuel: With all of this, the original idea was that these measures would only be needed temporarily, but that was assuming policies would work in concert — that policies aimed at reducing housing segregation would have worked, and we wouldn't see that black and Hispanic students are still much more likely to
attend high poverty schools than their white peers.
Not exact matches
In the study, 292 first - generation immigrant children who
attended eight
high -
poverty, urban elementary schools in Boston took part in the intervention, called City Connects, in the early 2000s.
The expansion of charter and magnet schools, along with private school options, does provide some opportunities for children in
high -
poverty areas to
attend schools that are more mixed in terms of class and income.
The schools these young men would
attend are typically in
high -
poverty urban neighborhoods, have
high rates of violence and school dropout, and struggle to retain effective teachers.
Not only were 100 percent of the students within the school living below the
poverty line, but many would be the first in their families to graduate
high school or
attend college.
In
high -
poverty neighborhoods of Los Angeles, students
attending Alliance College - Ready Public Schools have good reason to be hopeful about life after
high school.
21st Century Community Learning Center grant: A grant provided by the U.S Department of Education to community learning centers that provide academic - enrichment opportunities during nonschool hours for children, particularly students who
attend high -
poverty and low - performing schools.
The Sue Duncan Center was
attended by kids from elementary to
high school age, nearly all of them African Americans struggling with the grind of urban
poverty — crime, drugs, gangs, absent parents.
The effects of
attending a
high -
poverty school are not simply the aggregate effects of out - of - school
poverty, either; the schools themselves disadvantage those who
attend, regardless of their families» socioeconomic status.
Title I provides about $ 8 billion to improve education for some 13 million children who
attend 46,500 schools in
high -
poverty areas.
In 1989, the
poverty rate was 20.7 percent for heads of households who had not completed
high school, 8.9 percent for those who had graduated from
high school but not
attended college, and 3.6 percent for those with at least one...
African American students, students who qualify for free / reduced lunch (i.e. poor students), students living in relatively
high -
poverty areas, and students
attending urban schools are all more likely to be investigated by Child Protective Services for suspected child maltreatment.
Forty percent of U.S. students are black or Hispanic, and almost half of them
attend high -
poverty schools.
The report said: «In the context of creating a fairly funded system, government should also consider the external effects that may combine to compound the effects on pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds, including place
poverty (living in neighbourhoods with
high proportions of poor children,
attending schools serving
higher proportions of disadvantaged pupils) gender and ethnicity.»
In a typical
high -
poverty district public school, every student who happens to live in the neighborhood
attends.
Most or all parents
attend school open house events in 72 percent of schools that have a low concentration of
poverty compared with only 28 percent of schools with a
high poverty concentration.
For instance, poor children who
attend better - funded schools are more likely to complete
high school and have
higher earnings and lower
poverty rates in adulthood.
It's harder for kids in
poverty and in single - parent homes, especially those
attending large, impersonal middle and
high schools where students change subjects, teachers and work groups every 50 - 90 minutes in response to a bell (the proverbial «factory model»).
In addition to
attending racially segregated schools, black and Latino students are significantly more likely to
attend high -
poverty schools.13 The Civil Rights Project at the University of California, Los Angeles, calls this phenomenon «double segregation.»
By this score, nearly three - quarters of Milwaukee's low - income students
attend high -
poverty schools.
In the country at large, how many lower - income and
higher - income students
attend low -, mid -, and
high -
poverty schools?
For instance, black and Latino students are five times more likely to
attend high -
poverty schools than white students.44 Recent census data also show that black and Hispanic Americans live in
poverty at more than twice the rate of non-Hispanic whites, and they are significantly much more likely to live in extreme
poverty.45
They have targeted strategies to get strong teachers and leaders into
high -
poverty /
high - minority schools and can swiftly remove ineffective teachers; they are closing low - performing schools and offering
high - quality choices through both traditional and charter schools; and they have adopted demanding graduation standards and assessments so that students leave
high school capable of
attending college and ready for careers.
The 21st Century Community Learning Centers (Title IV, Part B) program supports the creation of opportunities for academic enrichment during non-school hours for children, particularly students who
attend high -
poverty and low - performing schools.
Since the Coleman report, study after study has shown that low - income children who
attend high -
poverty schools fare worse than low - income children who
attend low -
poverty schools.
On average, respondents estimated that a little more than half — or 52 percent — of all low - income students
attend high -
poverty schools.67 This estimate is slightly larger than the Urban Institute figure showing that 40 percent of all low - income students
attend a
high -
poverty school.68
In CAP's survey, respondents estimated the share of low - income students that
attend low -, mid -, and
high -
poverty schools.
In a fair and just school district, how many lower - income and
higher - income students should
attend low -, mid -, and
high -
poverty schools?
For example, among low - income fourth graders, students who
attend low -
poverty schools are two grade levels ahead of their peers in
high -
poverty schools.
Title IV, Part B supports centers that provide academic enrichment programs during non-school hours, especially those that target
high -
poverty families and students who
attend low - performing schools.
He reminds us that «in the US, wealthy children
attending public schools that serve the wealthy are competitive with any nation in the world... [but in]... schools in which low - income students do not achieve well, [that are not competitive with many nations in the world] we find the common correlates of
poverty: low birth weight in the neighborhood,
higher than average rates of teen and single parenthood, residential mobility, absenteeism, crime, and students in need of special education or English language instruction.»
The Sutton Trust report, Background to Success, said: «In the context of creating a fairly funded system, government should also consider the external effects that may combine to compound the effects on pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds, including place
poverty (living in neighbourhoods with
high proportions of poor children,
attending schools serving
higher proportions of disadvantaged pupils) gender and ethnicity.»
In Mississippi, where more than 56 percent of students
attend rural schools, Title I funding could be cut by $ 7 million, with the largest cuts taking place in five
high -
poverty Mississippi Delta districts.
While many private schools offer
high - quality pre-kindergarten programs and full - day kindergartens, providing enriching educational opportunities for children under age 6, many children who
attend public schools, particularly children living in
poverty, do not have access to these programs.
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.
One of those strategies was the elimination of the Chapter 220 program, which allowed for students of color from
high -
poverty neighborhoods to
attend schools in predominantly white suburban school districts.
This program supports the creation of community learning centers that provide academic enrichment opportunities for children, particularly students who
attend high -
poverty and low performing schools.
Principals who
attended more selective undergraduate institutions were less likely to work in
high -
poverty schools and were less likely to stay in their schools and districts, while those with parent and community outreach experience were more likely to remain in their schools
The 21st CCLC program supports the creation of community learning centers to provide academic enrichment opportunities during non-school hours for children, particularly students who
attend high -
poverty and low - performing schools.
Low - income students given a chance to
attend middle class schools are as much as two years ahead of low - income students stuck in
high -
poverty schools on the National Assessment of Educational Progress in math.
Today, 40 percent of all low - income children — or 10 million students —
attend schools with
poverty rates of 75 percent or
higher.
Through the Community Eligibility Provision, the federal government splits meal costs with school districts to provide free lunches to 6.4 million children
attending high -
poverty schools.
A Century Foundation study, «Housing Policy Is School Policy,» found that low - income students in Montgomery County who
attend schools with low levels of
poverty significantly outperform low - income students who
attend schools with
high poverty rates.
I've spent so many years reporting in Mississippi, which went for Trump, but more than 50 percent of kids in Mississippi
attend rural schools and the state has one of the
highest child
poverty rates.
In addition, at the national level in 2012 — 2013, the percentage of students
attending high -
poverty schools — those in which more than 75 percent of students qualify for free or reduced - price lunch — was
higher for charter schools (36 percent) than for traditional public schools (23 percent)(National Center for Education Statistics, 2015).
Attending a
high -
poverty school lowers math and reading achievement for students in all racial / ethnic groups and this negative effect has not diminished over time.
Manatee Charter School would like to announce to the community it's intent to apply to the 21st Century Community Learning Center program grant to provide academic enrichment opportunities during non-school hours for children, particularly students who
attend high -
poverty and low - performing schools.
The authors pointed out some of the advantages of low
poverty noting, «Children whose parents read to them at home, whose health is good and can
attend school regularly, who do not live in fear of crime and violence, who enjoy stable housing and continuous school attendance, whose parents» regular employment creates security, who are exposed to museums, libraries, music and art lessons, who travel outside their immediate neighborhoods, and who are surrounded by adults who model
high educational achievement and attainment will, on average, achieve at
higher levels than children without these educationally relevant advantages.»
This oversampling of students who
attend schools with
high levels of
poverty and undersampling of students from schools with less
poverty results in artificially low PISA reports of national average scores.»