Sentences with phrase «helping low income children»

As president and CEO of the Harlem Children's Zone (HCZ), a nonprofit geared toward helping low income children and families in New York City, Canada has improved the lives of thousands of children in urban settings through education and services.

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She noted that there is strong research that indicates that the extra income the tax credit gives to low - income families has significant long - term benefits for the children, improving their educational, health, and career outcomes, on top of helping to mitigate immediate hardship.

Marriott Vacations Worldwide (NYSE: VAC) is pleased to announce its donation to Step Up For Students, its third in three years, to help provide scholarships so low - income children can find the best school for their learning needs.

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We have frozen post-secondary tuition for two years, funded teachers and nurses that the PCs were going to cut, and created the Alberta Child Benefit Plan for low - income families, which is a $ 340 - million investment in new direct help to families who need it most.

The challenge for anyone who wants to help nurture the noncognitive abilities of low - income children in these early years is that the kind of deliberate practice children experience in pre-K doesn't do much to help develop their executive functions.

This year's event will help to benefit Cradles to Crayons, a nonprofit organization that equips children from birth through age 12 living in homeless or low - income situations with the essential items they need to thrive.

They also would help ensure that federal reimbursements for free and reduced price meals benefit low - income children.

Such changes also would help low - income children obtain the full benefit of federal reimbursements for free and reduced price meals.

Previous studies questioned whether the USDA's National School Lunch Program, which provides free or reduced - priced meals to low - income students, helped children maintain a healthy weight.

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Nurse - Family Partnership — Nurse Home Visitors work with low - income women who are pregnant with their first child, helping clients achieve healthier pregnancies and births, stronger child development, and a path toward economic self - sufficiency.

Participation in a federal summer meal program that helps children from low - income families plunged about 25 percent in Illinois last year, an anti-hunger coalition said Thursday.

CHICAGO — In his new book, «Helping Children Succeed: What Works and Why,» journalist Paul Tough investigates the challenge of educating low - income children, who now account for more than half of all public school sChildren Succeed: What Works and Why,» journalist Paul Tough investigates the challenge of educating low - income children, who now account for more than half of all public school schildren, who now account for more than half of all public school students.

This not - for - profit organization is dedicated to sharing resources to help low - income families cut the cost of raising a child.

Challenge number two is — this is something that I became more aware of working on Helping Children Succeed — that even going beyond the challenges that low - income kids face and the gaps in our academic outcomes, there are significant problems with some of the basic approaches to teaching and education that we have in our schools: The basic principles of American pedagogy, how we teach math, how we teach anything.

2001 FRAC helps lead anti-poverty and anti-hunger groups in obtaining tens of billions of dollars in refundable tax credits for low - income working families with children in federal tax legislation.

Good for Boulder to be able to raise money to help their low income kids, but in Boulder those kids represent just 18 % of public school children.

Head Start is a program that helps low income families prepare their children from birth to age five for school.

In practice GAIN representatives lobby to weaken regulations to help its partner companies such as Danone (the world's second largest baby food company), Mars, Pepsi and Coca Cola, to create markets for processed foods in low - income countries.9 When «market led approaches» focus on foods for infants and young children it is troubling.

The IDC is backing a paid family leave for working mothers, an increase to the child care tax credit, aid women in re-entering the workforce and help for low - income women by proposing changes to the Temporary Assistance for the Needy Families.

The governor also wants to increase the earned - income tax credit, which helps lower - income residents, and create a child care tax credit.

Connecticut officials say they're able to reopen applications for a state - run child care subsidy program that helps low - income working families.

Phipps Neighborhoods Healthy Families Services help children, youth, and families in low - income communities -LSB-...]

Cuomo vetoed a bill sponsored by two Buffalo lawmakers that would help give more timely notice to lower - income, working parents that child care subsidies they receive are being eliminated or reduced.

BISON Children's Scholarship Fund, $ 10,000 to help pay for seven low - income Lockport - area children to attend the private school of their choice in 20Children's Scholarship Fund, $ 10,000 to help pay for seven low - income Lockport - area children to attend the private school of their choice in 20children to attend the private school of their choice in 2017 - 18.

Training for parents and caregivers: Parents from low - income families could receive training on how to interact positively and reliably with their children to help them increase their vocabularies, imitate more conversations, and produce more vocalizations.

«Montessori preschool boosts academic results and reduces income - based inequality: Not only do Montessori children do better overall than those in conventional preschools, but Montessori preschools help low - income children to perform as well as wealthier children.»

Strikingly, the Montessori preschools significantly helped low - income children to perform as well as wealthier children academically.

Using mobile apps in preschool classrooms may help improve early literacy skills and boost school readiness for low - income children, according to research by NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.

«While more affluent students do better in school than children from lower income backgrounds, we are finding that musical training can alter the nervous system to create a better learner and help offset this academic gap.»

With the first 5000 views of Molly Sim's Baby & Me Yoga video, Tom's of Maine will donate $ 5,000 to Baby2Baby, a nonprofit that helps support low - income children under 12 around the country.

Nonprofits, including the Children's Scholarship Fund, founded in 1998, have provided vouchers to help low - income families afford private schools, and some are using the money to home school.

Intended to help schools address the attainment gap amongst children from low income families, some of this funding could be used to address the digital divide and ensure pupils who have poor home access are equipped with the resources they need.

His memory will be held dear not only by his family and friends but also by thousands of low - income families, for whose children he helped find better schools.

Making those experiences more accessible to and commonplace for all children, the theory goes, can help ensure that low - income kids keep learning at the same rate.

A leading Senate Democrat is proposing to help nourish young minds with a plan that would provide «book stamps» — inspired by the federal food stamp program — for low - income families with small children.

To one group of respondents we presented the issue as follows: «A proposal has been made that would give low - income families with children in public schools a wider choice, by allowing them to enroll their children in private schools instead, with government helping to pay the tuition.

Despite the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program's five - year record of success in helping children from low - income D.C. families attend the best schools they have ever known, President Obama, Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D - Ill.)

Even though low - income parents might care deeply about the schools their children attend, they do not always have access to - or the ability to access - information that would help them determine the best schools in which to place their children.

The news from the Education Next poll had become so bad we were accused of asking an unfriendly voucher question (it referenced the «use» of «government funds to pay the tuition»), so we agreed to split our respondents into two equivalent groups and ask the second group a «friendly» voucher question instead: «A proposal has been made that would give low - income families with children in public schools a wider choice, by allowing them to enroll their children in private schools instead, with government helping to pay the tuition.»

Report Seeks Help for Low - Income Student Parents (Inside Higher Ed) A new report authored by Bridget Terry Long proposes expanding the Child Care Access Means Parents in School program, which supports low - income parents by providing them with access to campus - based child - care servicLow - Income Student Parents (Inside Higher Ed) A new report authored by Bridget Terry Long proposes expanding the Child Care Access Means Parents in School program, which supports low - income parents by providing them with access to campus - based child - care serIncome Student Parents (Inside Higher Ed) A new report authored by Bridget Terry Long proposes expanding the Child Care Access Means Parents in School program, which supports low - income parents by providing them with access to campus - based child - care servChild Care Access Means Parents in School program, which supports low - income parents by providing them with access to campus - based child - care serviclow - income parents by providing them with access to campus - based child - care serincome parents by providing them with access to campus - based child - care servchild - care services.

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Nearly three - fourths (72 percent) of the public favors a «tax credit for individual and corporate donations that pay for scholarships to help low - income parents send their children to private schools.»

Under the agreement with the district and the plaintiffs in the case, the state has agreed to provide funding for reading instruction, preschool and kindergarten programs, and training to help teachers work with low - income and minority children.

On Tuesday, March 15 at 4:00 pm, the Hoover Institution and the Fordham Institute will host an event to discuss a new book that looks at the role schools can play in helping low - income children advance in life.

In New Orleans, a nonprofit called EdNavigator helps low - income parents support and advocate for their children at school.

Told about a proposal «that would give low - income families with children in public schools a wider choice, by allowing them to enroll their children in private schools instead, with government helping to pay the tuition,» 50 percent of the American public comes out in support and 50 percent expresses opposition.

Helping Low - Income Children Succeed New York Times, 3/24/14 «Diverging incomes among families lead to diverging destinies among children, undermining the promise of equal oppoChildren Succeed New York Times, 3/24/14 «Diverging incomes among families lead to diverging destinies among children, undermining the promise of equal oppochildren, undermining the promise of equal opportunity.

Two Economists on School Reform: We Know (A Few) Things That Work Wall Street Journal, 3/19/14 «Professors [Greg] Duncan and [Richard] Murnane previously have argued that the economic forces of technology and globalization are driving a wedge between winners and losers in the U.S. economy and making it tough for schools to help children from low - income families to get the skills they need to compete.»