Sentences with phrase «high child poverty»

«Given that in - school factors account for only a third or less of the variation in test scores, we must face the fact that our high child poverty rate constrains our nation's academic achievement.

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Both cities face a high child poverty rate, and both school districts grapple with significant achievement gaps along racial subgroups.

Many educational observers indeed blame the nation's sky - high child poverty level for the country's comparatively low performance in math.

Or will they peter out, as the benefits of accountability, research - based reading, and other reforms hit up against the reality of sky - high child poverty rates and out - of - wedlock births in the black community?

Under portability and absent formula changes, a district with a high child poverty count would continue to generate higher Title I allocations per eligible child, but would be forced to share these gains with other districts across its state.

More seriously, the high death rates of British children correlate with high child poverty and with a lack of investment in healthcare, according to research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.

«As the national debate on immigration has grown stronger, including immigrants» use of many social services, some have argued that the reason for the high child poverty rate has mostly been due to the large number of children in low - skilled, poor immigrant families,» Joo said.

What is the overall impact of the Governor's proposed budget on the ability of the state to meet its major social and economic challenges and opportunities such as the exceptionally high child poverty rates in the major Upstate cities?

Most of our upstate cities have horrendously high child poverty rates, some higher than 50 percent.

Our high child poverty rates cost us a fortune - # 25 billion a year according to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation - and child poverty is now predicted to rise by one million by 2020.

Highest child poverty rate — B.C. has had the highest rate of child poverty for eight years in a row and the numbers are rising.

But a closer look at the numbers reveals that B.C. continues to have the highest child poverty rate in the country, for the seventh...

But a closer look at the numbers reveals that B.C. continues to have the highest child poverty rate in the country, for the seventh year in a row.

Another huge difference is that the U.S. has the highest child poverty rate in the industrialized world, while Finland's is very low.

Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren echoed Mayor de Blasio's rhetoric of income equality, saying her city has the worst school district in the state and the fifth - highest child poverty rate in the nation.

In this year's State of the State address, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the formation of an anti-poverty task force in Rochester, which has the highest child poverty rate in the state.

The same patterns still hold: The United Kingdom has the largest proportion of poor children, by far, followed by the United States, with a higher child poverty rate (but not much higher) than Germany's and Finland's.

The Cincinnati Board of Education then voted unanimously on the resolution that contained the demands of the coalition, namely to reaffirm their support of CLCs by publically acknowledging that despite having the 2nd highest child poverty rate in the nation, the academic success of the district is attributed to the positive role of the Community Learning Center model.

I've spent so many years reporting in Mississippi, which went for Trump, but more than 50 percent of kids in Mississippi attend rural schools and the state has one of the highest child poverty rates.

The United States has one of the highest child poverty results of all the nations who take the PISA Exam.

Not exact matches

Wisconsin allows adults with dependent children who earn around 100 percent of the poverty level — $ 11,880 — to enroll in Medicaid, and Maine and Tennessee each have slightly higher caps.

«B.C. has the highest levels of child poverty in the country,» she noted.

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

By contrast to the so called middle - class tax cut which favours the more affluent, the CCB will have a positive impact upon the lamentably high rate of child poverty in Canada (which stood at 16.5 % in 2013), and will promote greater income equality among families with children.

Specific policies include the 30 - 50 Plan to Fight Poverty, which is committed to reducing the number of people living below the poverty line by 30 percent and the number of children by 50 percent; an Affordable Housing Plan; pursing the long - term goal of a national high - quality, universal, community - based, early education and child care system; increasing the Guaranteed Income Supplement by $ 600 per year for low - income seniors; and creating a new relationship with Canada's First Nation, Inuit and Métis peoples, including re-instating the Kelowna Poverty, which is committed to reducing the number of people living below the poverty line by 30 percent and the number of children by 50 percent; an Affordable Housing Plan; pursing the long - term goal of a national high - quality, universal, community - based, early education and child care system; increasing the Guaranteed Income Supplement by $ 600 per year for low - income seniors; and creating a new relationship with Canada's First Nation, Inuit and Métis peoples, including re-instating the Kelowna poverty line by 30 percent and the number of children by 50 percent; an Affordable Housing Plan; pursing the long - term goal of a national high - quality, universal, community - based, early education and child care system; increasing the Guaranteed Income Supplement by $ 600 per year for low - income seniors; and creating a new relationship with Canada's First Nation, Inuit and Métis peoples, including re-instating the Kelowna Accord.

VANCOUVER — A report out today showing that child poverty in B.C. is consistently high and above the Canadian average is just one more symptom of a Christy Clark government that puts donors and party insiders before the best interests of...

Fatherless children have rates of incarceration, criminal activity, possession of firearms, poverty, drug and alcohol abuse, teen pregnancy, incompletion of school, and overall parental neglect and maltreatment alarmingly higher than their two - parent counterparts.

And Help One Now is a catalytic tribe committed to empowering and resourcing high - capacity local leaders who care for orphans and vulnerable children in order to transform communities and break the cycle of extreme poverty.

And consider this: child care workers themselves are paid poverty - level wages, which leads to remarkably high levels of turnover.

By contrast, government action in America reduces child poverty by a mere 2 percent, from 22 to 20 percent — which is still the highest rate of all the rich nations.

One in five U.S. children are now born into poverty and the infant - mortality rate in parts of Detroit is higher than in Honduras, but the structural causes of poverty go unreported and remain invisible.

Of the 698 children born on Kauai in 1955, 201 were in the high - risk category, exposed to various combinations of perinatal trauma, family discord, chronic poverty, and alcoholic, under - educated, or mentally disturbed parents.

Glasgow and Dundee are also the principal centres of urban blight with only two - thirds of the working age populations in employment, and the highest Scottish levels of children living in poverty, to which can be added high levels of ill health and of alcohol and drug abuse.

They're a tribe — people like us — committed to caring for orphans & vulnerable children by empowering & resourcing high - capacity local leaders in order to transform communities & break the cycle of extreme poverty.

Anyone who can be ok with a high level of poverty and uninsured children does not display the values he preaches.

Only 2 per cent of households with children that have one adult working full - time and one part - time are in poverty — and that is despite the UK's extremely high housing costs caused by planning policies.

More than one in every ten Americans (11.7 percent) and an even higher number of children (16.3 percent) lived in poverty in 2001.

Noonan et al (2005), examining the lives of families at high risk of living in poverty, found that having a young child in poor health reduced the father's probability of being employed by four percentage points.

Following the judgment of the Hockenjos v. Secretary of State for Work & Pensions (21 December 2004), where the lack of financial support for non-resident parents who share care for children was found to be sex discrimination, the Childcare Strategy must address the barriers to sharing caring responsibilities in low - income families, where child poverty is a high risk.

Donna's passionate belief in the transformative power of nutrition is deeply felt in Burke County, which has one of the highest rates of child poverty in the US.

One significant victory in that battle was last year's passage of the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act which, among other things, uses Medicaid data to directly certify children for free and reduced price meals; helps states improve the certification process for school meal aid; allows universal free meals for students in high poverty communities; and expands USDA authority to support meals served to at - risk children in after school programs.

The Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act of 2010, up for a vote as early as today, would attempt to fix some of these problems through a variety of means, including allowing schools in high - poverty areas to offer free meals to all students without any paperwork, making foster children automatically eligible for free meals, and giving incentives to states that improve their certification rates.

«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.

By spring 2016, there were more than 18,000 high - poverty schools, serving 8.6 million children, offering breakfast and lunch at no charge to all students.

WASHINGTON, November 28, 2017 — The Food Research & Action Center (FRAC) today announced it has received a $ 125,000 grant from Tyson Foods to combat child hunger by expanding the reach of school meals and afterschool meals to children living in targeted high - poverty areas in four states.

The sample was stratified by country and electoral ward type to over-represent families in Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, and wards with a high proportion of disadvantaged and ethnic minority families.19 Electoral wards were defined as ethnic minority (at least 30 % of population «Black» or «Asian», 1991 census), with the remainder defined as disadvantaged (upper quartile Child Poverty Index20) or advantaged (not in upper quartile Child Poverty Index).

That puts a considerable administrative burden on high - poverty schools, which may have to chase down applications and partial payments from thousands of children.

Investigating successful kids and programs at low - income schools and high - achieving prep schools, as well as interviewing psychologists and neuroscientists, Tough challenges some conventional wisdom on causes of failure (poverty, teacher quality) and contends that nurturing character in children and young adults is the key to success.

These included fathers» age in years, race and ethnicity, household poverty level (as a percentage of the federal poverty level), educational level (less than high school, high school or equivalent, some college or more), employment status (reporting regular work in the last week), and marital status with the child's mother.