Sentences with phrase «despite high poverty»

Despite these high poverty rates, many of these children may benefit from increased child support enforcement.

Despite an the high poverty rate and an unemployment rate of well over twice the state average, this rural zip code seems to offer relatively cheap Alaska car insurance.

In honor of Digital Learning Day, a number of education leaders shared their efforts to improve student success despite high poverty and low Internet access at home.

When you look at NAEP results for 2013, California's growth in eighth grade reading scores was the top in the nation, getting close to the national average despite high poverty and second language levels and ranking near the bottom in per - pupil expenditures.

Many other schools at that time were also achieving at high levels despite high poverty and segregation:

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That figure is larger than in the 1960s when the war on poverty was launched, and this despite the fact that welfare spending, adjusting for inflation, rose throughout the 1970s and 1980s to its present all - time high.

Only 2 per cent of households with children that have one adult working full - time and one part - time are in poverty — and that is despite the UK's extremely high housing costs caused by planning policies.

This is despite growing high - level recognition of the benefits of ecological based agriculture and organic in particular as a solution to the MDG 1: Extreme Poverty & Hunger:

Despite decades of educational reform and legal efforts, many U.S. schools are experiencing increasing segregation, with 16 percent of public schools serving both minority and high poverty students.

Despite less education on average, a higher poverty rate, and more limited access to health care, U.S. Hispanics tend to live the longest.

Despite the slightly lower average poverty rates in receiving schools, they still had average poverty rates that were higher than 40 %, which is the criterion used to determine eligibility for schoolwide programs.

Dr. Roza's analysis demonstrates that, despite district bookkeeping practices that make funding across schools within the same district appear relatively comparable, substantially less money is spent in high - poverty and high - minority schools.

This article summarizes a study of 33 principals and assistant principals who led schools to high achievement despite barriers of poverty and racial isolation.

Being a principal who works in a high - poverty school, I love stories about leaders who overcome all odds and succeed despite their disadvantages.

Despite numerous challenges (a high poverty rate with 67 % of Smith Street students eligible for free or reduced lunch), Smith Street School (SSS) is flourishing.

Despite high levels of poverty in their communities, these schools have sustained improvements on multiple measures of student success (achievement test scores, graduation rates, attendance rates, and behavior measures); and national and state organizations have recognized and honored them for their achievements.

Despite the district's high poverty rate, Houston's students exceeded expectations in almost all areas following the 2012 adoption of more rigorous state testing.

The Cincinnati Board of Education then voted unanimously on the resolution that contained the demands of the coalition, namely to reaffirm their support of CLCs by publically acknowledging that despite having the 2nd highest child poverty rate in the nation, the academic success of the district is attributed to the positive role of the Community Learning Center model.

Despite the challenges of working in a high poverty, low performing school, they successfully turned a corner to improvement.

Despite the challenges of a school with almost 60 percent of its students at poverty level, Kenwood Academy High School has seen impressive achievements since Jones arrived in 2012.

While serving as middle school principal, his school received visitors from all over the state to learn how one of the lowest funded districts in Ohio was also one of the highest performing, despite poverty and limited resources.

Despite high crime and poverty rates, there is no doubt that the area held a strong sense of community as seen through the bold colours, emotive faces and natural poses in the photographs.

The standard economic solution proposed by policy - makers is to import more job and income opportunities, but despite the heroic mining efforts over fifty years, 50 % of Crows are unemployed and poverty remains high.

Despite the high value of auto insurance in Mississippi, relatively high poverty levels also mean you need to protect yourself against this nightmare scenario.

Recent research conducted in mainland China found that obesity prevalence was higher among children in wealthier families, 4 but the patterns were different in Hong Kong with higher rates of childhood obesity among lower income families.4 5 Hong Kong, despite having a per capita gross domestic product of Hong Kong dollar (HK$) 273 550, has large income differences between rich and poor as reflected by a high Gini coefficient of 0.539 reported in 2016; approximately 20 % of the population are living in poverty as defined by a monthly household income below half of the Hong Kong median.6 It is widely accepted that population health tend to be worse in societies with greater income inequalities, and hence low - income families in these societies are particularly at risk of health problems.7 In our previous study, children from Hong Kong Chinese low - income families experienced poorer health and more behavioural problems than other children in the population at similar age.8 Adults from these families also reported poorer health - related quality of life (HRQOL), 9 with 6.1 % of the parents having a known history of mental illness and 18.2 % of them reporting elevated level of stress.

Despite legitimate concerns about the harmful effects of peer influences on adolescent development in high - poverty settings, 1,2,29 our results suggest that parental practices can affect the developmental course of sexual risk behavior beyond the preadolescent years.