Sentences with phrase «from immigrant families»

In addition to presenting data on disparities by race and ethnicity, the report also focuses on the needs of children from immigrant families.

The budget proposal also provides about $ 4 million in additional resources for students from immigrant families, who are the fastest - growing population in a district struggling to retain children.

Students in the latter group are more likely than their peers to have lower family incomes and education levels, be members of ethnic minorities, or come from immigrant families.

Another key topic: supporting kids from immigrant families.

Understanding the intersection of immigration laws and laws governing federal funding for child care is critical to ensuring children from immigrant families receive equal access to quality child care.

New York University; New York, NY $ 225,000 over three years to examine pre-kindergarten-third grade teachers and social workers» perceived responsibilities, stressors, and supports in their work with children from immigrant families in New York City public schools and within a context of heightened enforcement of federal immigration policies.

Bankers used to joke that the best foreign currency traders, for instance, had to come either from the Brooklyn or Hong Kong slums — someone from a poor household, without gentlemanly culture, often from an immigrant family, whose sole personal horizon was to make as much money as possible.

And he is also, as he sometimes jokes about with pride, a Conservative story of aspiration and hard work, a boy from an immigrant family who worked hard - and had a portrait of Margaret Thatcher in his office.

Although every aspect of the proposed voluntary tests is in limbo while an independent body takes them under review, that decision highlights the ongoing educational challenge of assessing the literacy skills of the many students from immigrant families who are not yet proficient in English.

Loneliness and acculturation among adolescents from immigrant families in Portugal.

Additionally, Latinos from immigrant families especially may feel pressure to choose a career with a higher salary, panelists said at last week's conference.

Nationally, Latino children from immigrant families face obstacles on every measure included in this index with the exception that they were more likely to live in two - parent households.

Palumbo's Ristorante in Old Town Temecula serves up traditional Italian cuisine direct from an immigrant family with a prolific culinary history in San Diego County.

After adjustment for confounders, the stratum - specific adjusted odds ratios (95 % CI) of child mental health conditions related to a one - level decline in parent mental health were: 1.44 (1.35 — 1.55) for non-Hispanic whites, 1.24 (1.06 — 1.46) for non-Hispanic blacks, 1.04 (0.81 — 1.32) for Hispanics from non-immigrant families, 1.21 (0.96 — 1.93) for Hispanics from immigrant families, and 1.43 (1.21 — 1.70) for non-Hispanic otherrace children.

I don't have any hard demographic data here, but suffice to say there is a belief among some of the Latino Assembly members that the majority of those 9,000 students are Latino, and many hail from immigrant families.

The bombings were part of an Al Qaeda attack carried out by three British - born Muslims from immigrant families and one Jamaican convert to Islam.

Children from immigrant families now account for 42 percent of uninsured children in the United States, reports a study in the March issue of Medical Care.

That kind of faculty help and dedication, as well as setting high expectations for students and teaching them to do the same for themselves, are why the Csar Chvez public charter school has built a solid reputation — and track record — for helping low - income students from immigrant families succeed.

As a first - generation college student from an immigrant family from Michoacà ¡ n, Mexico, I know too well the financial obstacles many of our young people face today.

This installment of Teaching Tolerance magazine's advice column addresses the risk of school trips for students and volunteer relatives from immigrant families; keep these considerations in mind when planning trips, whether domestic or international.

This issue is personal for me because as a college success counselor for KIPP Colorado Schools, a network of six public charter schools, I support students from immigrant families as they navigate through college on their journey toward a degree.

School choice research tends to focus on parent management of decisions, but this brief recognizes the critical role of students in managing the high school application process, particularly for adolescents from immigrant families whose parents are not familiar with the American educational system, do not speak English, and / or have limited education.

In this nuanced story filled with well - developed characters, three eighth - grade girls from immigrant families face prejudice in their affluent New Jersey suburb.

As a visible minority from an immigrant family, the STEM careers were always emphasized to me and my siblings growing up and the law was not perceived to be as worthy of a vocation.

When high - profile realtor Sandra Rinomato meets a client from an immigrant family on HGTV Canada's Buy Herself, her Italian roots make it easy to relate -LSB-...]

«Children coming from immigrant families often come from difficult circumstances and these are children we hope will succeed,» DeCamp says.

March 30, 2017 • Gary Cohn was a dyslexic kid from an immigrant family in Cleveland who rose to lead Goldman Sachs.

Some might try to comfort themselves by saying the problem is limited to large numbers of students from immigrant families, or to African American students and others who have suffered from discrimination.

The complaint has been that resources are being diverted out of the local public schools, and that has hurt Black and Latino students, particularly the latter, since many of the students come from immigrant families.

For the study, a child from an immigrant family was defined as a foreign - born or U.S. - born child with at least one foreign - born parent.

A new study of national survey information gathered on more than 12,000 Hispanic children from immigrant and U.S. - native families found that although they experience more poverty, those from immigrant families reported fewer exposures to such adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) as parental divorce and scenes of violence.

Elsewhere in the show, Lupita Nyong» o and Kumail Nanjiani noted they both come from immigrant families and pledged to continue to stand with the «Dreamers.»

Pushed by No Child Left Behind's (NCLB) accountability measures and the college - for - all movement, educators nationwide have raised expectations for children from immigrant families.

The government is to set to begin collecting data on how many children from immigrant families are being taught in England's schools at the start of the next school year.

The government is to set to begin collecting data on how many children from immigrant families are being taught in England's schools.

Surveys focused on English Language Learners and children from immigrant families....

Many are from immigrant families.

Reformers have long been attracted to urban environments, especially those like South Los Angeles with a majority of students of color (91 percent of Los Angeles Unified's student population), many of whom come from immigrant families.

That's because joining the U.S. Agriculture's Community Eligibility Provision program required the district to move to a system that tends to undercount children from immigrant families.

Although students from immigrant families are the fastest - growing segment of the ELL population, they don't account for all the children who are labeled English language learners.

This work matters now more than ever for kids in low - resource communities and from immigrant families.

Race / ethnicity and English - language - learner (ELL) status are inadequate proxies for immigrant status, but this brief illustrates that students from immigrant families are a group that requires researchers», policy makers», and educators» attention.This brief draws on interviews conducted with 47 eighth grade students and 27 parents during the 2008 - 09 school year, including 25 students from immigrant families and 16 immigrant parents.

So districts must be prepared to serve every child — including children with disabilities, children from immigrant families and dual - language learners, children who are experiencing homelessness, and children who've experienced trauma.

After México, no other country - of - origin accounted for more than 4 percent of the total population of children from immigrant families.

In this episode, Dr. DeShawn Preston, higher education research fellow at the Southern Education Foundation, outlines five successful strategies for schools to create college readiness for students of color and students from immigrant families.