Sentences with phrase «facing high poverty»

We're seeking candidates with personal and / or professional knowledge of the issues facing high poverty and underserved communities.

With six locations in communities facing high poverty rates (Chelsea, Lawrence, Lynn, Quincy, Roxbury, and Downtown Boston), the Centers bring together a host of services from multiple partner organizations, conveniently, under one roof.

The study, «Assessing the Potential Impact of State Policies on Community Health Centers» Outreach and Enrollment Activities,» is the first to examine efforts on the front lines to find and enroll uninsured people, many of whom are living in rural and urban communities that face high poverty rates, elevated health risks and a shortage of primary health care.

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Special emphasis is paid to priority places where there are high concentrations of poverty and where children face significant barriers to success.

Likewise, if you're born in a high - poverty neighborhood to a stressed - out single mom who doesn't read to you and slaps you more than hugs you, you'll face a huge handicap.

According to Turnaround's research, many of the behavior - management challenges that educators in high - poverty schools face are due to the combustible combination, in the classroom, of two cohorts of students.

Further, unmarried women (whether single, widowed or divorced) face significantly higher poverty rates in middle and old age, according to a study by the Institute for Women's Policy Research that AARP published last year.

Families with incomes just above 185 percent of the poverty line face much tighter household budgets than those with significantly higher incomes.

«As parents, we want to shield our children from the pains of growing up and facing difficult situations, but long term we must honor our kids» desire for some struggle,» Tough said, adding that the struggles between those with high incomes and high poverty are different and require distinct supports.

«With all the problems the city faces - high poverty, failing infrastructure, struggling schools - he chose to see if the money's where it's supposed to be with those things,» Hawkins said.

In his introductory remark, Byrne painted a grim picture that Syracuse faces: sluggish economic development, fleeing population, high tax and rising level of poverty.

Whilst all four countries are experiencing high levels of fuel poverty the Monitor identifies a number of particular difficulties being faced by vulnerable households in the individual countries calling on the need for Government to provide a more concise and effective plan to tackle the problem.

Whilst all four countries are experiencing high levels of fuel poverty the Monitor identifies a number of particular difficulties being faced by vulnerable households in the individual countries.

She referenced the high levels of poverty many of Syracuse's residents face, and how this impacts education and housing and job prospects.

Syracuse faces a stagnant economy, high levels of violent crime and concentrated minority poverty.

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.

During a debate over the consolidation held at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs this spring, Consensus representatives painted a grim picture: Syracuse is facing sluggish economic development and high poverty rates coupled with a fleeing population.

The situation is especially dire for neighborhoods in the 19th district, where communities like East New York face higher rates of unemployment and poverty, Smitherman said.

Women over the age of 65 face numerous barriers to good health: an increased risk for obesity, greater struggles against poverty and higher rates of asthma with worse health outcomes.

Communities of color and those with low education and high poverty and unemployment may face greater health risks even if their air quality meets federal health standards.A pervasive air pollutant, the fine particulate matter known as PM2.5 is a mixture of emissions from diesel engines, power plants, refineries and other sources of combustion.

Communities of color and those with low education and high poverty and unemployment face greater health risks even if their air quality meets federal health standards, according to the article published online in the scientific journal Environmental Health Perspectives.

In reality, the transgender community still faces a civil rights crisis: housing, health care, and employment discrimination, as well as higher rates of poverty, suicide, violence, and murder.

These formulas send some funds on a uniform, per - disadvantaged - child basis, but direct close to half of federal dollars in a way that recognizes high - poverty districts face greater challenges, using weights to allocate per - eligible funds progressively with respect to a district's poverty rate.

In many of those countries which are comparatively poor, but the happiness level is high, Bhutan is one of them, Sweden, Bangladesh, even Nepal who has been facing so much problems and poverty, the many countries in the world, also in south Asia, where the happiness level is high, I think the social fabrics, connectivity among the people, brings them more sense of security, more sense of cooperation, and eventually leads to the level of happiness.

The current research consensus points to high - poverty schools facing disproportionate challenges: that is, to get the same outcome, they need more resources per student — and per poor student.

Before stepping down as secretary, she told Virginia's General Assembly that the «trifecta» of challenges facing Virginia public education are rising poverty rates, higher achievement expectations, and decreased levels of funding.

When It Comes To Publicly Funded Preschool, Are We Asking The Wrong Questions Huffington Post, 7/15/16 «Even the highest quality preschool programs for three and four - year old children go only partway toward addressing the many challenges these children face when growing up in poverty.

In reality, in the face of dramatic past increases in school funding, the gaps in attainment, high school graduation, and family poverty have remained significant, largely resisting any major improvement.

A key question facing policymakers today is if and how to modify the comparability provision to ensure that districts give high - poverty schools a fair shake.

They explore complex contemporary issues and problems facing education and society — including issues of community - focused leadership development for high - poverty rural schools, college access and student success, sexual violence, cross cultural counseling, community college leadership, and state and institutional policies that affect children and adult learning — with a view toward solutions that will make a real, positive difference for students, teachers, counselors, administrators, policy makers, and communities.

In the Youngstown City Schools, a high - poverty school district serving about 5,000 students in northeastern Ohio, our students face significant challenges.

CPS faces the challenges of high student poverty and dismal test scores — though its selective - enrollment schools have posted some of the highest test scores in Illinois — and the district believes it needs more money to help its low - income population.

There are many reasons outside education for why low - income and minority children face tougher odds, but high - poverty schools can and must overcome those factors.

«Rural schools face many of the same challenges as their urban counterparts — high poverty and inadequate resources among them,» said Patte Barth, Director of the Center for Public Education.

VCS in southern Georgia, faces several challenges that negatively affect student achievement, including high poverty, high student mobility rates, insufficient funding, and problems with teacher retention.

Special emphasis is paid to priority places where there are high concentrations of poverty and where children face significant barriers to success.

What it Takes: Two high - poverty schools chase better graduation rates APM Reports, September 1, 2016 The nation's high school graduation rate is at an all - time high, but high - poverty schools face a stubborn challenge.

For poor and minority students, risks are higher: 26 percent of those who face the «double jeopardy» of poverty and low reading proficiency fail to earn high school diplomas, and Hispanic and African American children who lack proficiency by third grade are twice as likely to drop out of school as their white counterparts.

And while Florida's current A-F school grading system tries to adjust for the fact that schools in high poverty areas face challenges that make it very hard for their students to perform well on standardized tests, it's not enough, says Alan Ehrenhalt for Governing Magazine.

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IEL stands up for the causes of those in high - potential communities who fight to provide opportunity in the face of poverty, trauma, and inequity.

She began as a teacher at the ground level of one of the country's most economically and demographically challenging inner city populations, the North Side of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she faced what so many teachers face: high class numbers, and needing to support learning, emotional and physical needs of a multilingual population of students in poverty while achieving state and district test score goals.

«When you consider the changing face of America and all the challenges we have, poverty and other issues, yet we are educating more students to a higher level than ever.

This course addresses the many issues facing educators in high - poverty urban 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.

One concern is that districts receiving the minimum amount, such as KPS, which serves high - poverty neighborhoods, won't get the resources they need for the challenges they face, and that smaller, lower - funded charter and cyber schools will receive more than they need.

According to a new report, most teachers in urban, high - poverty schools are remarkably motivated to meet the challenges at hand, but they need and want schoolwide, principal - led supports in order to succeed in the face of the uncertainties that economic privation brings.

I believe Congress and the state of California need to take a hard look at the challenges that high poverty districts like Oakland face, because our District is hardly unique.

Some see high - poverty schools as more difficult because many students come to school already behind academically and facing serious challenges in their lives, many of which are beyond a teacher's control.

Middle - class schools are 22 times as likely to be high performing as high - poverty schools, in part because disadvantaged students face extra obstacles, but in part because economic segregation has an independent, negative effect on student achievement.