Sentences with phrase «disadvantaged children for school»

Representative George Miller of California said that despite a proposed $ 80 - million increase for Head Start, which prepares economically disadvantaged children for school, the Administration's 1983 budget package amounts to an «erosion of resources» for the program.

The civil rights movement and the growing public awareness of our educational system's inequality led to the creation of Head Start, a program aimed at preparing young disadvantaged children for school.

Various curricula, however, show promise and, more importantly, indicate that much more can be done to prepare disadvantaged children for school.

Not exact matches

So, for example, on - site remedial educational services could be provided to disadvantaged children enrolled in private schools, but not their counterparts in religious schools (Aguilar v. Felton [1985]-RRB-.

«We will however make available information on best practice and «what works» for improving the attainment of disadvantaged pupils and I am clear that a valuable use of the premium would be schools investing in ways to encourage parents, including of course fathers, to engage in the education of their children.»

Today the following message went out to Local Authorities from the Department for Education: Summary: Free school meals will be introduced for all school children in reception, year 1 and year 2 in state - funded schools, and also to disadvantaged...

I think that makes a lot of sense, especially for children who are growing up in disadvantaged situations — they need more time in school.

Chicago Public Schools won an extra $ 11 million from the state to expand preschool programs for disadvantaged children next school year, but the district doesn't plan to create new programs with the money.

For many, it's hard to muster sympathy for stroller - pushing elites, with their Scandinavian toys and double lattes, whining about a few minutes of lost instructional time, when so many disadvantaged children come to school hungFor many, it's hard to muster sympathy for stroller - pushing elites, with their Scandinavian toys and double lattes, whining about a few minutes of lost instructional time, when so many disadvantaged children come to school hungfor stroller - pushing elites, with their Scandinavian toys and double lattes, whining about a few minutes of lost instructional time, when so many disadvantaged children come to school hungry.

and elaborated on in subsequent posts (e.g.,» A Follow - Up to the Infamous «Cheetos - and - Nach0 - Sauce» Photo «-RRB-, the shame of being seen in line for the federally reimbursable meal can prevent economically disadvantaged children from eating lunch, a problem that's exacerbated when when attractive, for - cash - only, snack - bar items are also made available by schools in so - called «a la carte» lines.

Diane: I did wonder if the researchers controlled for socioeconomic status, since children are more likely to eat school lunch when their parents can't afford anything else, and those economically disadvantage home environments may also contribute to obesity.

Free school meals will be introduced for all school children in reception, year 1 and year 2 in state - funded schools, and also to disadvantaged students in further education and sixth - form colleges, from September 2014.

This book so clearly lays out how the cycle of poverty exacerbates existing disadvantages for children and creates more barriers to success in school and society.

The net effect of this not - thought - through policy is that, in many cases, children from rich and affluent homes who attend some of the best private schools for their primary education will be the beneficiaries of this scholarships, and children of less endowed schools and remote villages and towns will be disadvantaged.

The Conservatives are proposing a «pupil premium», with funding for school places weighted toward disadvantaged children.

The state also will pick up the transportation tab for children of all ages, from kindergarten to high school, who live in disadvantaged areas, thanks to a $ 500,000 program included in the new budget, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said in a statement.

This follows Nick Clegg's announcement that the Coalition Government is making free school meals in England available for primary school children and disadvantaged college students from September 2014.

In England, the Coalition Government is making free school meals available for all infant school children and disadvantaged college students from September 2014.

Lord Willets also highlighted comments from Sir Michael Wilshaw, the outgoing boss of Ofsted, who launched his own attack on the failure of grammar schools to improve outcomes for disadvantaged children.

«Cutting the roll out of universal free school meals, abolishing one - to - one tuition, pulling the plug on funding for breakfast clubs and other extended services, aborting the school building programme and siphoning off money to allow the pushy and the privileged to set up schools will hit the poorest and most disadvantaged children hardest.

Schools minister Sarah Teather is expected to confirm an increase in the amount of funding each school can claim for each disadvantaged child later.

Extending the pupil premium — extra money given to schools for disadvantaged children — to three and four - year - olds will help, but is not enough.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

Whilst there, she co-authored the report, More Good School Places, which was the first to recommend a «Pupil Premium» of # 6000 extra funding for each disadvantaged child in the country's state schools.

He said Tower Hamlets was one of the worst areas for child poverty and the school, opening next year, aimed to tackle «social disadvantage and challenge the status quo».

But former Labour welfare minister Frank Field said the money could be better spent on support for disadvantaged children before they reached school age.

«School kids living in homeless shelters must contend with unimaginable levels of stress and hardship, and are at a tremendous disadvantage when trying to keep up with their housed peers in class,» said DAVE GIFFEN, Executive Director of the Coalition for the Homeless, the nation's oldest advocacy and direct service organization helping homeless men, women and children.

They recommended longer school days and school years, and all day pre-kindergarten for children from disadvantaged backgrounds.

The government plans to cut «non-essential» education projects including youth clubs, after - school music and art activities and child safety projects to meet its commitment to increase funding for disadvantaged children under a pupil premium.

Education and health The «pupil premium» was one of the areas of agreement David Cameron flagged up in his initial speech offering talks with the Lib Dems last Friday, and under it schools will receive extra funding for teaching children from disadvantaged backgrounds.

«For years in public health we have been working on immunizations and other medical interventions to set the course for the health of disadvantaged children, and we have turned the tide,» says the study's lead author Allison Barlow, MPH, PhD, associate director of the Center for American Indian Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public HealFor years in public health we have been working on immunizations and other medical interventions to set the course for the health of disadvantaged children, and we have turned the tide,» says the study's lead author Allison Barlow, MPH, PhD, associate director of the Center for American Indian Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Healfor the health of disadvantaged children, and we have turned the tide,» says the study's lead author Allison Barlow, MPH, PhD, associate director of the Center for American Indian Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Healfor American Indian Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

«Given the limited accessibility of traditional mental health services for children — particularly for children from minority and economically disadvantaged backgrounds — school - based mental health services are a tremendous vehicle for overcoming barriers to mental health care and meaningfully expanding the reach of supports and services for so many children in need.

While the museum's decision to offer free school visits will allow some children from disadvantaged backgrounds the opportunity to experience Wonderlab, Dawson argues that «it is not enough to use school visits as a panacea for exclusive practice».

50 cents for every pair of Monkee Genes manufactured in Bangladesh will be donated to a foundation which has already achieved building two schools for over 2,000 disadvantaged children in Bangladesh.

Using accountability (as well as school choice and other strategies) to improve matters for disadvantaged children has therefore been, and should remain, a policy focus.

The subject of high - profile lawsuits and heated political rhetoric, vouchers tend to split people into two camps — those who believe they are a valuable tool for helping disadvantaged children escape failing public schools and those who charge that they strip funds from public schools...

Research has shown that children from privileged socioeconomic backgrounds are better prepared for achievement when they enter school than children from disadvantaged backgrounds.

But the media take - away from the Report, that school quality does not affect children's achievement, was disturbing, especially coming one year after passage of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society Programs, a cornerstone of which was that improving schooling for disadvantaged children would reduce economic inequality in the U.S.

Three of the first six opportunity areas (Derby, Scarborough, and West Somerset) will also benefit from successful bids for the National Collaborative Outreach Programme, which will help raise aspirations for disadvantaged children through summer schools, organising school visits and providing academic mentoring.

Powell has said that selective education «creates barriers for disadvantaged children» and has called on Prime Minister Theresa May to rethink proposals to allow more grammar schools to open.

Grammar schools in Kent have been encouraged to provide up to 700 more places for children from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Children who benefit from free school breakfasts and lunches often miss meals and go hungry once their school closes for the holidays, while the lack of free play schemes and sports activities can have an impact on those from the most disadvantaged backgrounds.»

Also important is universal access to high - quality, affordable, integrated early childhood education and care, especially in the year before full - time school and for developmentally vulnerable children and children from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, schools that receive funding from the federal Title I program for disadvantaged students are required to offer supplemental education services if they fail to meet their achievement targets for three or more years.

This «schooling without learning» is a wasted opportunity, the report argues — widening social gaps for already disadvantaged children, for whom the promise of education was meant to offer much greater access to good jobs, higher wages, better health, and lifelong security.

Schools that receive federal Title I funds to improve learning among disadvantaged children and fail to make AYP for two years in a row are considered in need of improvement and face a range of consequences.

First, for families that did use a voucher to move to a better neighborhood, subsequent moves back to highly segregated, disadvantaged areas may have either offset initial gains or prevented children from experiencing better schools.

A plan to transfer Head Start programs run by the Chicago public schools to community - based centers has put the popular preschool program for disadvantaged children at the center of an emotional dispute pitting agency against agency and parent against parent.

For what it is worth, he has repeatedly argued that school choice will be a priority of his administration, going so far as to say in his first joint address to Congress, «I am calling upon members of both parties to pass an education bill that funds school choice for disadvantaged youth, including millions of African American and Latino childrFor what it is worth, he has repeatedly argued that school choice will be a priority of his administration, going so far as to say in his first joint address to Congress, «I am calling upon members of both parties to pass an education bill that funds school choice for disadvantaged youth, including millions of African American and Latino childrfor disadvantaged youth, including millions of African American and Latino children.

In the late fall of 1964, Shriver asked Dr. Robert Cooke, a pediatrician at Johns Hopkins and the chairman of the Kennedy Foundation's scientific advisory committee, to head a committee whose task would be to make recommendations for a preschool program that would promote the development and school readiness of disadvantaged children.