In that plan, Evers sought hundreds of millions more in state spending and changes that would help school districts with
high numbers of children living in poverty and mitigate school funding losses for districts experiencing enrollment decreases, among other measures.
Not exact matches
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.
The report highlighted Manchester as the city with the
highest number of children living in «severe
poverty».
Austin was clearly needy; it had the
highest number of homicides
in Chicago
in 2003 and nearly 30 percent
of families with
children under 18
lived in poverty.
In it, she said that the Common Core standards will ensure that Connecticut remains a place where people want to live, work and invest in their future, that the standards are clear and high and will make students ready for college and careers, and that those standards will cause children of poverty to graduate from high school in increasing number
In it, she said that the Common Core standards will ensure that Connecticut remains a place where people want to
live, work and invest
in their future, that the standards are clear and high and will make students ready for college and careers, and that those standards will cause children of poverty to graduate from high school in increasing number
in their future, that the standards are clear and
high and will make students ready for college and careers, and that those standards will cause
children of poverty to graduate from
high school
in increasing number
in increasing
numbers.
Attorney James Hall, president
of the Milwaukee chapter
of the NAACP, rattled off a host
of statistics about Milwaukee's low ranking on a
number of quality -
of -
life metrics, from the recent finding by the Annie E. Casey Foundation that Wisconsin is the worst state
in the nation for African American
children, to our sky -
high levels
of mass incarceration
of black men, our nation - leading racial gap
in student achievement, our
high poverty rate and geographic segregation.
The
number of children living in high -
poverty neighborhoods more than doubled over the past decade, increasing from 76,000
in 2000 to 212,000 during the current data year.
A recent report by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, «Race for Results: Building a Path to Opportunity for All
Children,» provides a national and state scorecard for how we are providing opportunities for children of color, using 12 indicators, such as percentage of children enrolled in preschool, high - schoolers who graduate on time, and number of children who live in low - povert
Children,» provides a national and state scorecard for how we are providing opportunities for
children of color, using 12 indicators, such as percentage of children enrolled in preschool, high - schoolers who graduate on time, and number of children who live in low - povert
children of color, using 12 indicators, such as percentage
of children enrolled in preschool, high - schoolers who graduate on time, and number of children who live in low - povert
children enrolled
in preschool,
high - schoolers who graduate on time, and
number of children who live in low - povert
children who
live in low -
poverty areas.
In ranking the best cities for families, Livability.com used data from the U.S. Census Bureau to find the places with a high number of children but low concentration of children living in povert
In ranking the best cities for families, Livability.com used data from the U.S. Census Bureau to find the places with a
high number of children but low concentration
of children living in povert
in poverty.