Sentences with phrase «high poverty»

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.

This panel will discuss how profiling, although at times unintentionally, can have an impact on students in high poverty schools as well as highlight practices and programs that promote equitable learning opportunities.

Or that nationally, low - income students in more affluent schools are two years ahead of low - income students in high poverty schools.

In general, districts with higher poverty rates have higher rates of maltreatment investigations.

«Students from higher poverty districts looked different than those from lower poverty districts,» she said.

And this low - rigor mathematics teaching is too often the common fare of high poverty, new immigrant and diverse students who have been traditionally underserved and underrepresented in rigorous mathematics courses.

And unfortunately, in general, schools with higher poverty levels tend to have more novice teachers.

It took a fresh input of resources to level the playing field and to put schools in high poverty neighborhoods on a par with affluent suburban schools.

A new landmark study finds that community schools are effective at improving educational outcomes for children in high poverty communities.

This is an incredible achievement for our school and our city as, nationwide, the average graduation rate for high poverty schools is a dismal 68 %.

Her research focuses on the development and evaluation of early language and literacy interventions for children from high poverty communities.

We represented 1st through 8th grades, five different districts including high poverty urban, working class rural, and middle class to affluent suburban communities.

In my experience, the very high poverty schools have a high percentage of families in crisis.

Each school is open enrollment and serves high poverty populations almost exclusively (90 percent or more at each school).

I've long held that if teachers at high poverty schools could primarily focus on instruction you would see a change in the achievement - wealth connection.

Really it is certain types of public schools are failing such as high poverty rural and urban schools.

Impact of comprehensive school reform on student achievement in high poverty elementary schools.

We're seeking candidates with personal and / or professional knowledge of the issues facing high poverty and underserved communities.

And, in many high poverty neighborhoods, graduation is truly a difficult goal.

A separate attachment indicates the amounts received by districts eligible for high poverty aid.

Higher needs children in primarily high poverty rural and urban school districts are seeing greater disparity increasing over time.

I think one trend that isn't listed here, and is important, is the ever widening gap between high poverty and low poverty students at the 12th grade level.

One issue will be implementing class size reductions again, in the K - 3 + high poverty classrooms where this matters.

There are several schools out there (public, charter, and private) taking high poverty students and having high test scores, graduation rates, and college attendance.

The reason some charters are touted are because they are some of the most successful high poverty yet high performing models in the country.

Cities with higher poverty rates are likely to have a higher concentration of uninsured drivers.

And this pattern of over and over again happens more in high poverty areas where students need consistent effective instruction.

And we are a Title 1 school with high poverty levels, so asking parents for donations was out of the question.

This is especially likely in communities with high poverty rates and limited access to important resources.

The highest turnover happens in high poverty urban and rural public schools.

Over the past four years, chronic early absence fell from 10 percent to 5 percent among young students living in high poverty neighborhoods.

Another important part of the equation involves «progressive» school funding policies, with sufficiently high funding levels and higher rates of funding for high poverty districts.

I served for 37 years in public education, serving students in inner city high poverty communities.

However, summer reading experiences are not equitable for students from high poverty homes or areas as compared to their peers.

In the lower grades it is harder, especially in high poverty areas.

Or we can continue to fill schools, particularly high poverty schools with students most in need of high quality teaching, with short - term teachers.

It is discouraging that our elected officials, including our Governor supported legislation that so glaringly fails to recognize the inherent challenges faced by high poverty schools.

Many other schools at that time were also achieving at high levels despite high poverty and segregation:

The 21st Century Community Learning Centers (CCLC) Program provides federal funding for the establishment of community learning centers that provide academic, artistic and cultural enrichment opportunities — during non-school hours — for students, particularly those who attend high poverty and low - performing schools, to meet state and local standards in core academic subjects such as reading, math and science.

State policymakers who wish to switch over to portability should think carefully not only about reporting requirements and accountability for private schools under portability, but also about the details of the fiscal transition, such as hold harmless rates, that could allow high poverty public schools now served with Title I time to adjust.

In late 2014, USDA announced that the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) which allows high poverty schools to offer both breakfast and lunch at no charge to all students, is benefitting more than 6 million children nationwide.

The economic consequences for Antigua include higher poverty rates, higher insurance premiums and more infrastructure costs to make the island better able to withstand future storms.

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.

Hawthorne Elementary on Madison's east side was identified last year as a «School of Promise» because its test scores, given the school's high poverty demographics, exceeded expectations.

According to a new U.S. Department of Education study, «about one in five public schools was considered high poverty in 2011... up from about one in eight in 2000.»

The study estimates the impact of overturning a state's school finance system and finds that, seven years after reform, a state's highest poverty quartile experienced a 4 to 12 percent increase in per pupil spending and a 5 to 8 percentage point increase in graduation rates.