Sentences with phrase «concentrated poverty»

Areas of concentrated poverty, coupled with reduced funding resources, makes it much more difficult for some school districts to provide kids with the high quality education that they have been promised.

Instead, lots are being assembled for redevelopment as low - income housing projects, further concentrating poverty in new housing that is inferior to the structures they replaced.

The number of poor people living in neighborhoods with concentrated poverty doubled from 3 million in 2000 to 6 million in recent years.

Others are concerned that only the relatively more economically and academically advantaged students enroll in charters, leaving public schools with more concentrated poverty and students who tend to have more learning difficulties.

A new funding formula also will mean more money for some schools, particularly elementary and middle schools in neighborhoods plagued by concentrated poverty.

The proposed formula would focus only on concentrated poverty.

The change in concentrated poverty trends do not end there.

The third and final panel represents the more sensible, efficient and humane approach, which is to attack the cruelty of concentrated poverty directly.

I recently learned that my work has been used as justification by school officials who advocate deliberately concentrating poverty in a few schools.

Some enroll relatively advantaged students, while others enroll students from communities of concentrated poverty.

In districts with more concentrated poverty, the costs increase.

We agree that students of all backgrounds can achieve at high levels, even in learning environments with concentrated poverty.

The Atlantic magazine's Alana Semuels, in a piece headlined «How to Decimate a City,» cites research showing Syracuse has highest rates of concentrated poverty among black and Hispanics in the nation.

Syracuse is number one in the nation for concentrated poverty among African - Americans and Hispanics.

Education policymakers working to address the impacts of growing economic and racial inequality on students often look to community schools as an effective approach for supporting students and their families in communities facing concentrated poverty.

Syracuse has some of the most concentrated poverty in the country.

Both express a desire to attack concentrated poverty.

I support the Land Bank as an important tool for a housing policy aimed at decreasing concentrated poverty, increasing affordable housing, and expanding the property tax base.

Hawkins said that the old large - scale public housing projects concentrated poverty and segregated minorities.

It is important to bear in mind that these spending increases occurred against the backdrop of countervailing influences, such as the rise in single - parent families, more highly concentrated poverty, deterioration of neighborhood conditions for low - income families, the exodus of the middle class to the suburbs, mass incarceration, the crack epidemic, changes in migration patterns, and others.

Some of the most successful anti-poverty initiatives, like the Harlem Children's Zone or the KIPP schools, are designed around the premise that children raised in concentrated poverty need to be taught middle class norms.

The study, Resegregation in American Schools, analyzes the latest data from the National Center of Education Statistics» Common Core of Education Statistics, and examines changes in racial composition in American schools, national patterns of segregation, the relationship between segregation by race and schools experiencing concentrated poverty, the difference in segregation in different regions and types of school districts, and the extent and segregation of multiracial schools.

But while Americans are aware that concentrated poverty exists, they are less aware of how this affects the distribution of low - income students across low - and mid-poverty schools.

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According to a recent report published by the Education Law Center, «sufficient school funding, fairly distributed to districts to address concentrated poverty, is an essential precondition for the delivery of a high - quality education through the states» (p. 1).

WHEREAS, turning over struggling public schools to charter operators or private voucher schools does not address the significant factors that contribute to failing schools, such as concentrated poverty, joblessness, violent crime, and declining economic and social health; and

Concentrated poverty puts whole neighborhoods at risk.

The terrible spread of concentrated poverty throughout Illinois exacerbates this inequity.

The greatest gains in reducing gaps in achievement and opportunity have been made during periods when concentrated poverty has been dispersed through efforts at integration, or during economic growth for the black middle class and other communities, or where significant new investments in school funding have occurred.

When we choose to ignore the fact that poverty, especially concentrated poverty, drags down our schools, we've gone down the rabbit hole.

And concentrated poverty matters a lot.

Cities concentrate poverty, but they also represent the best hope of escaping it.

The snapshot indicates how high - poverty communities are harmful to children, outlines regions in which concentrated poverty has grown the most, and offers recommendations to address these issues.

This Data Snapshot highlights newly available national, state, and city data in the KIDS COUNT Data Center that shows a 25 percent increase in the number of children residing in areas of concentrated poverty since 2000.

«We want to create mixed neighborhoods, avoid concentrating poverty,» said James Fraser, a professor at Vanderbilt University who has consulted on Nashville's housing plan.

The institute found that the poorer the neighborhood, the higher the risk for problematic gambling: It was twice as likely in neighborhoods with the highest levels of concentrated poverty compared to neighborhoods with the lowest poverty levels.

A recent study that ranks Syracuse number one in the country for concentrated poverty among blacks and Latinos has ignited activists, who want city government to do something about creating jobs for residents who live in poverty.

Organizer Raymond Blackwell says there are three things that need to happen for Syracuse to lose the distinction of having the highest rate of concentrated poverty among minorities.

«Schools and districts can not do this alone, particularly in communities facing concentrated poverty and high levels of chronic absence.

Syracuse has some of the most concentrated poverty in the nation.

Semuels begins by citing Rutgers economist Paul Jargowsky's research on concentrated poverty and its consequences:

«It may be demographics: Poorer people turnout less, and in recent decades the city has become poorer, with more concentrated poverty.

Five decades of research confirm that students in socioeconomically and racially diverse schools have higher test scores, are more likely to enroll in college, and are less likely to drop out, on average, than peers in schools with concentrated poverty.