Sentences with phrase «high poverty concentrations»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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

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.

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.

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.

Kids who stick with their neighborhood schools find themselves among student bodies with higher concentrations of poverty, the study says.

Cities, towns and villages with high concentrations of poverty will be given preference for the program's funds, according to the press release.

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.

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 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.

She chose Syracuse as a subject after it landed at the top of the Century Foundation's list of cities with the highest concentrations of poverty.

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.

In poorer districts, the high concentration of children living in poverty means students come to school with added baggage - hunger, housing instability, exposure to crime and violence - that can affect how well they do in the classroom.

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.

States are also supposed to ensure that «highly qualified» teachers are evenly distributed among schools with high concentrations of poverty and wealthier schools.

But today most charter schools have even higher concentrations of poverty than traditional public schools.

There is a high concentration of children, and 38 percent of [its] children live below the poverty line.

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.

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.»

From a concentration of poverty perspective, the highest per - pupil school allocation is for schools with between 70 percent and 80 percent of students qualifying for free or reduced - price lunch, not the highest levels of poverty.

«Where there is the highest concentration of poverty you will find the lowest - performing districts,» he added.

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.

Such proposals would undermine Title I's fundamental purpose of assisting public schools with high concentrations of poverty and high - need students.

«I think it's safe to say that there's a social science consensus that high - poverty concentrations are bad for education,» said Kahlenberg.

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.

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The number of children from poor families is rising across the district, and there are more schools with high concentrations of poverty than there were 10 years ago.

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.

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

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.

Compared to neighboring district schools, KIPP middle schools have student bodies characterized by higher concentrations of poverty and racial minorities, but lower concentrations of special education and limited English proficiency students.

While federal cuts to education would cause all districts to either reduce services or compensate for deficits with state or local dollars, Trump's proposed budget would have the most severe impact on districts with high concentrations of poverty and other challenges.

Across the district, schools with higher concentrations of poverty are more likely to have teachers with less experience, according to a State Journal analysis of Madison School District data.

We have a higher concentration of students affected by poverty and mobility, a toxic combination that negatively impacts student achievement,» says Superintendent Steven Webb.

The analysis reveals that schools with the highest rates of poverty and the lowest rates of student achievement, as well as those with high concentrations of students of color, are the most likely to have teachers with unsatisfactory ratings.

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.