Sentences with phrase «help children from disadvantaged families»

Head Start was created as part of President Lyndon Johnson's «War on Poverty» agenda to help children from disadvantaged families become as school ready as their more affluent peers.

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Under the LCFF, more state funds will be directed to help schools serving educationally disadvantaged students - that is, children from low - income families, English learners and foster care youth.

The report also recommends helping disadvantaged families make better school choices, so that their children, as well as those from middle - class families, apply to the country's more popular, better performing schools.

• to describe the lives of children in Ireland, in order to establish what is typical and normal as well as what is atypical and problematic; • to chart the development of children over time, in order to examine the progress and wellbeing of children at critical periods from birth to adulthood; • to identify the key factors that, independently of others, most help or hinder children's development; • to establish the effects of early childhood experiences on later life; • to map dimensions of variation in children's lives; • to identify the persistent adverse effects that lead to social disadvantage and exclusion, educational difficulties, ill health and deprivation; • to obtain children's views and opinions on their lives; • to provide a bank of data on the whole child; and to provide evidence for the creation of effective and responsive policies and services for children and families; • to provide evidence for the creation of effective and responsive policies and services for children and families.

His name is Scott Pilgrim and when he's not helping manage a large NFP care organisation that offers hope to people living with disadvantage, or parenting his «Brady Bunch» family with eight children aged from 24 to two, he writes a blog called The Blogging Pilgrim.