Sentences with phrase «for economic disadvantage»

Interim support is a holding order to maintain the accustomed lifestyle if possible pending final disposition as long as the claimant is able to present a triable case for economic disadvantage.

Likewise, the typical student eligible for free or reduced - price lunch (a proxy for economic disadvantage) attends a school where almost two - thirds of students are also eligible for a subsidized lunch.

Every compensation for an economic disadvantage, it is argued, creates an incentive for people to become or remain disadvantaged.

They had misunderstood the nature of the husband's pension, and had overlooked the wife's right to be compensated for the economic disadvantages she had suffered as a result of the marriage, arising from her role as caretaker to the children.

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Backed by organizations such as Winrock International, a global nonprofit focused on economic opportunities for the disadvantaged, the Northwest Arkansas Entrepreneurship Alliance runs The Iceberg co-working facility in downtown Fayetteville and Gravity Ventures, an angel investment fund operating in Arkansas and Indiana.

That's an economic disadvantage for each of the 21 municipalities and for British Columbia,» says Greg D'Avignon, president and CEO of the Business Council of B.C..

My conclusion is that developments in the global economy during the past 50 years have greatly reduced the economic disadvantages of small nations enumerated for his time by Hamilton.

By: Martin Creamer 26th January 2018 Project delivery and engineering consultancy WorleyParsons RSA is once again answering the call for transformation and broader economic participation of previously disadvantaged South Africans.

The Republicans have positioned themselves so that religious people vote for them on social issues, while they pursue an economic agenda that disadvantages me, and probably you, and leads to a nation in which prosperity is reserved for the very few.

One study concluded: «The achievement growth rates of Catholic school attendance are especially strong for students who are in one way or another disadvantaged: lower socio - economic status, black, or Hispanic.»

Friedman has compassion for the poor, but he is most concerned about the political dangers to the economic system that will arise if the disadvantaged are neglected.

Now, it is true that there is some precedent in Jewish tradition for giving certain specific considerations to persons who have inherited economic disadvantages (see, e.g., Babylonian Talmud: Baba Metsia 70a).

The Jamaica experiment makes a strong economic case for the potential effectiveness of some kind of home - visiting intervention with disadvantaged parents.

Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, said: «Since 2010, the UK Government has made «boosting economic development» its number one priority for international aid and development, in spite of evidence which indicates that this might further disadvantage the world's poorest children.

The widely discredited economic development program tried to foster new business in disadvantaged areas, but instead became a favored tax break for politically connected companies.

«Given the important role public policies and services play in supporting individuals to make the most of their talents, we will consider legislating to make clear that tackling socio - economic disadvantage and narrowing gaps in outcomes for people from different backgrounds is a core function of public services,» the white paper stated.

He also spoke of a need for unity in New York City, where the privileged and disadvantaged alike are given a fair shot at economic success, good schools, affordable housing, and safe neighborhoods, and where people «don't have to worry about being stopped and frisked because you happen to be the wrong color.»

«For those proposed locations that are more affluent, a project would have to provide a considerably greater overall direct and residual economic benefit to the host municipality and surrounding region than a smaller project sited in a disadvantaged region,» he wrote to Sen. John Bonacic, R - Mount Hope.

He said «It is time to move beyond the unequal exchange of cheap raw materials for expensive finished goods that disadvantages Africa, to one that ensures technology transfer and sustainable economic development, huge economic returns for investors and creates new jobs for both sides.»

Cuomo spent months lobbying against the tax plan, which he has denounced in apocalyptic language, calling it «an economic civil war» that will put the state at a structural disadvantage when it comes to competing for jobs.

WHEREAS, small businesses, without assistance, can not afford to purchase health insurance coverage for their workers, nearly 800,000 of whom have lost employer - sponsored coverage over the last decade, and thus face a major competitive disadvantage that inhibits their ability to grow, create jobs and otherwise support the State's economic development;

For universities, a major benefit of active learning is lower failure rates and possible increased retention of science students, including underrepresented minorities and students with economic disadvantages.

The right - leaning R Street Institute released a report this week that found no economic justification for financially supporting reactors that have been disadvantaged by cheap natural gas, state clean energy programs and federal tax incentives for wind.

«Poverty and the many stresses that come with social disadvantage have long been linked to cardiovascular disease, but how we live, work, and play has a great impact on heart health for people from a broad range of economic and cultural backgrounds,» explains David Siscovick, MD, MPH, Senior Vice President for Research at The New York Academy of Medicine and Chair of the American Heart Association's (AHA) Council on Epidemiology and Prevention.

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.

Various subgroups of students, defined by ethnicity, gender, economic disadvantage, and need for special education, must be making comparable progress.

Although well - intentioned given the desire to maintain «the same grade - level academic standards for all students,» the economic forces described above and in our original article suggest that adherence to these guidelines is likely to hurt the disadvantaged students that the USDOE is trying to help.

Special education vouchers have a political advantage that vouchers for low - income students lack: they can benefit not only the poverty - stricken disadvantaged, almost never a politically potent interest group, but also anyone who has a child with disabilities, a population that crosses all social and economic boundaries.

I would like to see these eminent experts embed themselves in schools for just one terms in areas of social economic disadvantage to see if they think their ideas could work.

For economic progress, it is regarded as an indispensable vehicle of empowering the disadvantaged and -LSB-...]

Money would then be available to bring needy schools up to 95 per cent of the government's schooling resource standard (SRS), which is calculated by taking a base cost for educating each student and adding money for disadvantage (such as coming from a low socio - economic background, being indigenous, or living in a remote area).

Better measures of economic disadvantage can help us better understand the variation in outcomes within the population of children who are eligible for subsidized meals

There are substantial equity concerns with this forced feeding of technology - based testing, with substantial concerns that underserved populations such as English learners, students with disabilities, and socio - economic disadvantaged students having less access to technology and thus being at a disadvantage due to the premature forced technology - based testing protocol, thus widening the perceived achievement gap for these students.

It answers these questions by looking the attendance of grammar schools by different socio - economic and ethnic groups; examining access to grammars for disadvantaged students and those from Just About Managing families, along with examining the proportion of privately educated pupils vis - à - vis state educated pupils.

«It's the capacity of those systems to invest in those students from disadvantaged backgrounds» says Schleicher, the education director for the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), which administers the triennial Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) among its roughly three dozen member countries.

Much of the gap is accounted for by socio - economic disadvantage, with pupil performance also differing depending on whether they attended independent schools, grammar schools or comprehensive schools, said a national report by the Department for Education (DfE).

The report also stated there was little support for the «notion that pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds are more likely to succeed if they live in a country with an academically selective secondary education system», based on the OECD's definition of resilience [which measures how many pupils in the bottom quarter of socio - economic status are in the top quarter of attainment].

The researchers compared pupils eligible for free school meals (FSM) in England with disadvantaged pupils in other countries using PISA's economic, social and cultural status index.

That is, the greater the misperception of poverty, the more likely it is for 15 - year - old students» math scores to be predicted by their actual socio - economic status, and the harder it is for disadvantaged students at the bottom of the socio - economic ladder to score among the top students.

Prominent geneticists, like Arthur Jensen at the University of California, Berkeley, have concluded on similar grounds that «compensatory education» — which aims to correct for social or economic disadvantages — is a losing bet.

Both are motivated by a genuine desire to make headway against racial and economic inequalities in learning and achievement, and to improve prospects for disadvantaged children.

«The gaps are too big in terms of achievement for students with disabilities, they are too big in areas of race, students with socio - economic disadvantaged backgrounds,» he said.

We are known for working collaboratively with our partners to increase innovation and remove barriers that can disadvantage some in our society and jeopardize their ability to achieve education and economic success.

These adjustments give more value or «weight» to compensate for higher educational cost associated with these characteristics (e.g. economic disadvantage or limited English proficiency).

If the socio - economic status of its students is factored into the ratings, however, Reo's grade moves up to an A. That's because 87 percent of the school's 189 students are «economically disadvantaged,» which means they qualify for a free or reduced price lunch.

We find schools that are hyper - segregated by race; and we find schools that do not reflect the cultural and economic profile of the communities in which they are situated (for as Ms Lecker reports charter schools underserve English language learners and they often underserve the most economically disadvantaged children, as measured by eligibility for free and reduced lunches).

Hedge Clippers released an incisive report condemning Success Academy for accepting major gifts from hedge fund board members who support conservative social and economic policies that harm the disadvantaged populations that Success intends to serve.

The distributions vary for students who are traditionally disadvantaged because of economic or language barriers:

Each individual claiming economic disadvantage must describe the conditions which are the basis for the claim in a narrative statement, and must submit personal financial information.

When married, an individual claiming economic disadvantage also must submit separate financial information for his or her spouse, unless the individual and the spouse are legally separated.