Sentences with phrase «by high poverty schools»

It is discouraging that our elected officials, including our Governor supported legislation that so glaringly fails to recognize the inherent challenges faced by high poverty schools.

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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.

WASHINGTON, November 28, 2017 — The Food Research & Action Center (FRAC) today announced it has received a $ 125,000 grant from Tyson Foods to combat child hunger by expanding the reach of school meals and afterschool meals to children living in targeted high - poverty areas in four states.

Come help make lovely, high - quality feminine hygiene kits and help end the cycle of poverty by keeping girls in school.

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.

Students in high - poverty schools were more than three times as likely to be taught by a U-rated teacher as students in low - poverty schools.

Children from the high poverty neighborhoods surrounding Coney Island's PS 188 faced a number of challenges when the school joined our first CLS cohort in the 2012 - 13 school year — worsened by Hurricane Sandy.

Instead of high - stakes tests to define high - poverty schools as failing and to justify their conversion to privately - managed charter schools, we need to desegregate schools by race and class and provide equitable and adequate funding of all public schools.

Challenged by poverty, family tragedies and poor health, she nevertheless excelled as a high school student.

A full - scale transition from a government - run monopoly to a competitive marketplace won't happen quickly, but that's no reason not to begin introducing more competition... We pursued that goal in New York City by opening more than 100 charter schools in high - poverty communities.

Using census data to sort districts within each state by the federal poverty rate among school - age children, the group identified the poorest and richest districts - those with the highest and lowest poverty rates, respectively, whose enrollments compose 25 percent of the state's total enrollment - and matched that information with education revenues from state and local (but not federal) sources.

As researchers long focused on social studies and informational reading and writing education in the early elementary grades, we were frustrated by this pattern of neglect, and troubled that it is even worse in high - poverty school settings.

Karin Chenoweth: I was hired by the Achievement Alliance to identify and describe schools that have substantial populations of children of color and children of poverty that are high achieving or rapidly improving.

When districts react to OCR threats by choosing not to enforce their discipline codes in high - poverty, high - minority schools, it's the well behaving poor kids who suffer «disparate impact.»

The federal government's own comprehensive analysis of Title I, mandated by Congress, conducted by RAND among others, and published in 2007 after several years of NCLB experience, found the largest academic gains since 2000 and 2003 among students in high - poverty schools.

First Generation tells the story of four high school students - an inner city athlete, a small town waitress, a Samoan warrior dancer, and the daughter of migrant field workers - who set out to break the cycle of poverty and bring hope to their families and communities by pursuing a college education.

Of the public schools in California serving large numbers of students in poverty, 12 of the 15 highest - performing ones are charter schools, says a new analysis by the California Charter Schools Assocschools in California serving large numbers of students in poverty, 12 of the 15 highest - performing ones are charter schools, says a new analysis by the California Charter Schools Assocschools, says a new analysis by the California Charter Schools AssocSchools Association.

Urban school districts spend significantly less per pupil on their high - poverty schools than their low - poverty ones, a fact that is routinely masked by school budgets that use average - salary figures rather than actual ones, a new paper suggests.

«School Poverty and Academic Performance: NAEP Achievement in High - Poverty Schools» is available by calling (800) USA - LEARN.

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.

[iv] Clotfelter et al. found that an $ 1800 bonus targeted at math, science, and special education teachers working in high - poverty or low - achieving secondary schools in North Carolina reduced turnover by 5 percentage points, or 17 percent.

By 2008, the highest - poverty schools were actually hiring fewer teachers on temporary licenses than wealthy schools.»

[v] In California, Steele et al. found that a $ 20,000 bonus to high achieving teaching candidates to work in high poverty schools increased the probability of their placement in a high - poverty school by 28 percent and their probability of remaining in the high - poverty school at the end of four years was similar to other teachers in those 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 Carlston Family Foundation was recognizing six outstanding California teachers, nominated by their former students who graduated from high schools in high poverty / high risk environments and went on to succeed at prestigious universities.

Editor's note: This piece was adapted from Turning High - Poverty Schools into High - Performing Schools by William H. Parrett and Kathleen M. Budge.

By 2014 it requires all students in every grade level to get to proficiency in every year — even 3rd graders who are born into poverty, or high - school students who moved to the United States two years prior.

A research team led by Harvard Graduate School of Education's Susan Moore Johnson at the Project on the Next Generation of Teachers spoke to 95 teachers and administrators in six high - poverty, high - minority schools in a large, urban district.

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.

High - poverty schools — many of which are not served by Title I — spend less than richer schools.

Evidence from Arkansas and elsewhere indicates that the discipline disparities found at the district level are often driven by sky - high suspension rates in a handful of high - poverty schools.

A study by the University of Pennsylvania's Matthew Steinberg and Mathematica's Johanna Lacoe, and published by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, also found a differential response to school discipline reforms in Philadelphia, with high - poverty schools mostly ignoring the district's new policy and / or suspending even more students for serious infractions.

I've made the case that high - performing, high - poverty schools can provide safety, stability, and hope to at - risk kids and their families and that these features have immeasurable value in distressed neighborhoods beset by myriad challenges.

Leaders in high - performing, high - poverty schools hold a view similar to this one expressed by a superintendent in a Northwest school district: «There is a bright red thread running from every student - learning problem to a problem of practice for teachers, and finally to a problem of practice for leaders.»

High - poverty schools can meet student, professional, and system learning agendas by strengthening instructional framework, targeted interventions, reading proficiency, reflective practice, and data - based inquiry.

When students do not learn to read by third grade or develop reading difficulties after third grade, as is disproportionately the case for students living in poverty (Kieffer, 2010), it is critically important that an emphasis on learning to read remain an instructional priority in upper - elementary classrooms as well as in middle and high schools.

The program is a hybrid: it gives formula grants to states, but to receive their share of funds (fixed amounts calculated by a formula tied to the states» levels of need) states had to submit applications specifying in detail how they would set up competitive grant programs for their districts aimed at helping low - performing, high - poverty schools improve reading instruction in grades K — 3.

One of the rallying cries of standards - based education is that all students can achieve at high levels — a point proven by a number of high - performing, high - poverty schools.

Through this NPRM, we intend to carry Head Start forward into the 21st century to ensure all Head Start children receive sufficient exposure to high quality services that will promote school success and reinvigorate the promise of Head Start envisioned in 1965 as a means to help end the effects of poverty child by child, community by community.

As a result, the problem the law sought to tackle is still dire: Students in high - poverty schools, a national survey has shown, are twice as likely to have their most important classes taught by teachers without proper certification.

A major class - action settlement that gives LAUSD teachers layoff protection at several dozen schools in high - poverty areas has been invalidated by the California 2nd District Court of Appeal.

In this study, 27 high - poverty elementary schools (75 — 100 % eligibility for free or reduced - price lunch) were matched by prior reading achievement and poverty level and randomly assigned to one of two implementation conditions: a core treatment condition that directly replicated implementation procedures used in previous experiments, or a core treatment with structured teacher adaptations condition.

What's so intriguing about the Charlotte - Mecklenburg study is that in this case, resegregation was accompanied by increased funding to minority - dominated schools, to diminish the impact on student performance in high - poverty neighborhoods.

We found that on this delayed outcome, the treatment had a statistically significant impact on children's reading comprehension, improving performance by.04 SD (standard deviation) overall and.05 SD in high - poverty schools.

Reed vs. California was filed in February 2010 and essentially argued that low - performing schools in high - poverty areas — already difficult to staff — were so unfairly impacted by teacher layoffs that it compromised the constitutional rights of students to be educated.

Community eligibility helps low - income families, high - poverty schools, and the school meals programs by:

The high poverty rates in the district meant elementary school students already were lagging academically by the time they arrived.

These same schools report poor achievement by other major student groups as well, and have a set of characteristics associated generally with poor standardized test performance — such as high student - teacher ratios, high student enrollments and high levels of students living in or near poverty.

Research suggests that low - income students in mixed - income schools — surrounded by peers who expect to go on to college, parents in the school community who regularly volunteer in class, and strong teachers — perform substantially better than comparable students in high - poverty schools that often lack those ingredients for success.