Sentences with phrase «high concentrations of poverty in»

Poverty greatly affects student learning and high concentrations of poverty in schools presents unique challenges.

In addition to suffering from the problems that all voucher bills have in common, this bill would also undermine the main purpose of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), which is designed to target federal funds to public schools with high concentrations of poverty in order to provide additional educational services for these students.

The area represents the highest concentration of poverty in our district and these students typically qualify for a free, nutritious lunch during the school year.

The district encompasses Syracuse University, a burgeoning downtown and some of the highest concentrations of poverty in the city.

It is a loss for residents in an area with some of the highest concentration of poverty in the city.

The city of Syracuse has one of the highest concentrations of poverty in the nation.

Perez Williams has said the viaduct's original construction contributed to the high concentration of poverty in the city.

The modest neighborhoods that unfurl nearby are hemmed in by Interstate 4, dotted with union halls — and burdened by some of the highest concentrations of poverty in the city.

Not exact matches

The need to address poverty's basic causes, including the unhealthy concentration of America's land and resources in the hands of so few owners — who have tended to misappropriate land values — ought to be high on our religious and public policy agendas.

Although the food depository's truck started its tour in Skokie, it will usually head to other sections of Cook County with a high concentration of poverty, including the Chicago neighborhoods of Chatham, Chicago Lawn, Fuller Park, Kenwood and Uptown, Dolgan said.

Syracuse has one of the highest concentrations of poverty among black and Hispanic people in the United States and some of the lowest test scores and graduation rates in the state.

Syracuse, as Mr. Weiner reported last September, has the highest concentration of black and Hispanic poverty in America, which has «spread unabated from Syracuse's core to the city's Near South, Near Southwest, and North Side.»

The city came under fire in 2015 when a report found Syracuse had the highest concentration of poverty among its black and Hispanic populations, out of the 100 largest U.S. metropolitan areas.

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In addition to the troubling fiscal state, the Consensus report described the stagnant economic development that has plagued Syracuse for decades: low - level economic performance, high concentration of poverty and significant loss of population.

This led to a concentration of poverty in Flint, a decrease in the number of police officers and a rise in crime to one of the highest rates in the nation.

The expectation is that the resulting intervention, titled «SECURe for Parents and Children (SECURe PAC)» is feasible to implement within existing school - and community - based services in urban areas with a high concentration of families and children living in poverty.

Most or all parents attend school open house events in 72 percent of schools that have a low concentration of poverty compared with only 28 percent of schools with a high poverty concentration.

In criticizing the federal regulation, for example, Weingarten claimed that «the flawed framework... will punish teacher - prep programs whose graduates go on to teach in our highest - needs schools, most often those with high concentrations of students who live in poverty and English language learners.&raquIn criticizing the federal regulation, for example, Weingarten claimed that «the flawed framework... will punish teacher - prep programs whose graduates go on to teach in our highest - needs schools, most often those with high concentrations of students who live in poverty and English language learners.&raquin our highest - needs schools, most often those with high concentrations of students who live in poverty and English language learners.&raquin poverty and English language learners.»

Most of these schools and districts have two features in common: poverty and high concentrations of racial minorities.

The upshot, per the article, is that «children in the school districts with the highest concentrations of poverty score an average of more than four grade levels below children in the richest districts.»

Turning Title I into a voucher directly conflicts with the original intent of Title I, which was first enacted in 1965 and has continued to be reauthorized with bipartisan support in Congress to target and support schools with high concentrations of poverty.

Patricia Gandara, an educational psychologist at UCLA, said students in bilingual programs often go to schools with higher concentrations of poverty, which is linked to lower test scores.

It may also be difficult to translate work done in this small school, where in any given year a quarter to 40 percent of students are eligible for free or reduced - price lunch, a federal measure of poverty, to larger, urban schools with higher concentrations of low - income students.

However, poverty is the only factor that is positively associated with boundary participation rates aside from location in the Wilson HS boundary or the change in African American populations, which means that higher concentrations of poverty could explain boundary participation in areas that are similar in other aspects.

School district funding is divided into three categories: Basic grants given for all students, with different levels based on grade span; supplemental grants for students in poverty, English learners and foster children, called high - needs students; concentration grants for school districts with more than 55 percent of high - needs students.

These changes always tend to have the greatest impact on schools serving students in the highest concentrations of poverty.

This is especially the case in isolated rural locations and places with high concentrations of children in poverty and children of black, Native American, or non-white Hispanic descent.

We have school districts with few needy children, and those with high concentrations of children living in poverty, English language learners and students with disabilities.

Scholars at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill conducted a comprehensive evaluation of the teaching fellows program and found positive results, including a) graduates teach in schools and classrooms with greater concentrations of higher performing and lower poverty students; b) graduates produce larger increases in student test scores in all high school exams and in 3rd - 8th grade mathematics exams; and c) teaching fellows remain in North Carolina public schools longer than other teachers.

The bill seemingly attempts to address the authentic need to improve educational outcomes in schools serving students facing higher concentration of poverty but does so without a research - based, data driven, realistic, or sustainable solution.

Children in the school districts with the highest concentrations of poverty score an average of more than four grade levels below children in the richest districts.

It denies resources to the neediest schools, uses discipline policies with a disproportionate harm on students of color, and enacts policies that increase the concentrations of students in high poverty and racially segregated schools.

A federal mandate that Title I funding be allocated to eligible students, regardless of the concentration of poverty in their schools, would significantly dilute the impact of this funding and deprive buildings with high concentrations of students in poverty of critical resources.

Why do communities with a high concentration of families living in poverty feel alienated from and abandoned by the educational system?

That includes schools with a high concentration of «English language learners, students in foster care and students who live in circumstances of poverty.»

And burnout is much more frequent in high - poverty schools of all kinds than in mixed - income or middle - class schools because teachers feel overwhelmed by concentrations of poverty.

Targeted funding supprt for schools and school divisions with high concentrations or numbers of students in poverty, English learners, and students receiving special education services;

The portability amendment would have slowed states to allocate Title I funds to districts based on the number of poor students who attend, but the White House criticized the idea saying that 25 percent of school districts with high concentrations of poverty, above 25 percent, would lose as much as $ 700 million in federal funds while low - poverty districts would gain as much as $ 470 million.

She also led the district and community conversation that ultimately changed the way students were assigned to schools and reduced high concentrations of students of poverty in many schools.

As noted in the 2015 Texas Equity Plan, «schools with high concentrations of minority students and students living in poverty have higher percentages of inexperienced teachers than schools with low concentrations of those students.

Thernstrom argues that economic integration policies aren't possible in areas like Washington DC that have high concentrations of high - poverty schools.

Some of those children live in towns with high concentrations of poverty, and some are at - risk kids residing in wealthier communities, he said.

To start unpacking the data, first we looked at the performance of just the low - income students by sorting all Oakland schools by their concentration of students in poverty — that is, those that had a very high percentage of students eligible for free or reduced price lunch..

Those conversations, he explains, led to a tightly coordinated effort between the district, the United Way of Greenville County, and other community partners to tackle poor attendance, raise academic achievement, and boost graduation rates in the White Horse Road community, a section of the county with the highest concentrations of poverty.

In addition, RIDE manages a number of federal grants and programs that provide funds to school districts for such programs as aid for schools with high poverty concentrations, the education of students with disabilities, and school breakfast and lunch programs.

Millar said Georgia needs to amend its formula to give more money to school districts with high concentrations of students in poverty.

He also said that yearly increases in the pay scale are an appropriate use of supplemental and concentration dollars to retain senior teachers in high - poverty schools — and are a reason why Long Beach has no teaching shortage.

In other words, Chicago, which has the highest concentrations of high - poverty schools, receives practically no pension funding from the state.

But when a team of researchers led by Dr. John Fantuzzo from University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education (Penn GSE) studied every third grader in the Philadelphia public schools, they found strong student achievement in some schools with high concentrations of poverty.