Sentences with phrase «high child poverty rates»

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?

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.

«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.

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.

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

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«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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Looking across the various groups (children, pensioners, etc.), poverty rates are higher now than they were in 2004/5 (Brewer et al, 2009, pp.32 - 34), though still lower for most groups than in 1996/7.

And the child poverty rate in Syracuse and Fulton are significantly higher than the state average.

«Primarily because of grand corruption under successive governments since the return of democracy in 1999, millions of Nigerians continue to live in extreme poverty, a condition manifested by the lack of clean water, malnutrition, high rates of child mortality and morbidity, low life expectancy, illiteracy, perception of hopelessness and social exclusion.»

With recent studies showing that Rochester has among the highest poverty and child poverty rates in the country, Hochul says the task force will better coordinate services that are already available.

As our report suggests, we need more education funding in high needs districts and a serious investment of state funds in combatting child poverty if we are to improve graduation rates.

«As long as we keep having this pattern reoccurring for decades and generations, we're not going to see, really address the difficult issue of the fact that we have one of poorest communities in the country and one of the highest rates of child poverty in the country,» said Sally Santangelo, executive director of CNY Fair Housing.

Job growth is largely frozen, and child poverty rates are higher.

However, the report shows «a number of red flags» including a declining population, a «noticeably less» median home value than the state's median, and a child poverty rate of 44 percent, which is higher than cities of similar size.

Adversity is commonly defined as anything children perceive as a threat to their physical safety or that jeopardizes their family or social structure, including emotional, physical or sexual abuse, neglect, bullying by peers, violence at home, parental divorce, separation or death, parental substance abuse, living in a neighborhood with high crime rates, homelessness, discrimination, poverty and the loss of a relative or another loved one.

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.

Using census data to sort districts within each state by the federal poverty rate among school - age children, the group identified the poorest and richest districts - those with the highest and lowest poverty rates, respectively, whose enrollments compose 25 percent of the state's total enrollment - and matched that information with education revenues from state and local (but not federal) sources.

After analyzing data collected in the Luxembourg Income Study from 1979 to 1981, Mr. Smeeding concluded that the United States had the highest child - poverty rate of 10...

Washington — Although the federal Chapter 1 program bypasses some schools with high poverty rates and some students with low achievement levels, it generally reaches the disadvantaged children it was meant to benefit, a new Education Department study concludes.

«More remarkable,» writes Davis, «those growth rates include test scores from 2004 — 05, when 300 high - poverty children from failing District of Columbia public schools entered consortium schools through the new D.C. voucher program.»

Poverty is also associated with higher rates of alcoholism and other substance abuse in the home; greater incidence of child abuse and neglect; and heightened family involvement in the criminal justice system.

These formulas send some funds on a uniform, per - disadvantaged - child basis, but direct close to half of federal dollars in a way that recognizes high - poverty districts face greater challenges, using weights to allocate per - eligible funds progressively with respect to a district's poverty rate.

They assert that the U.S. has a sky - high child - poverty rate compared to other developed countries.

It urges a formula based on each state's total number of children ages 3 to 21, weighted to benefit areas with high poverty rates.

Petrilli and Wright present data from a new article in Education Next that show that when cross-national poverty rates are calculated properly, the U.S. does not have a higher child - poverty rate than many other large, industrialized nations.

But at 100 percent, our child poverty rate was almost three times as high as Finland's (12.4 percent versus 4.6 percent).

For instance, poor children who attend better - funded schools are more likely to complete high school and have higher earnings and lower poverty rates in adulthood.

Inner - city neighborhoods are where all these dynamics interact, the study points out, and in neighborhoods with poverty rates at or above 40 percent, higher rates of school dropout, teenage pregnancy, and crime, and lower rates on cognitive and verbal skill tests and health indicators among school - age children continue.

He reminds us that «in the US, wealthy children attending public schools that serve the wealthy are competitive with any nation in the world... [but in]... schools in which low - income students do not achieve well, [that are not competitive with many nations in the world] we find the common correlates of poverty: low birth weight in the neighborhood, higher than average rates of teen and single parenthood, residential mobility, absenteeism, crime, and students in need of special education or English language instruction.»

High school graduation rates, child poverty and juvenile arrests are among the areas where blacks struggle in Dane County, and state test results show Madison School District achievement gaps persist.

Given that, the fact that CA has the lowest national school spending per child, poor social services, and the highest poverty rate in the nation is a travesty.

In remarks entitled «Race, Poverty, Power and Politics in our Education System,» Juneau detailed a trio of initiatives in her state to ensure that every child has an equal opportunity to a quality education, including raising high school graduation and reducing dropout rates and improving low - performing schools.

Today, 40 percent of all low - income children — or 10 million students — attend schools with poverty rates of 75 percent or higher.