Sentences with phrase «high poverty populations»

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

The high poverty population adds an extra challenge for educators as they must grapple with the reality that most students don't have the support and structure they need to continue their learning at home.

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«In a country like India, with a high population density and a high level of poverty, virtually every ecological niche is occupied by some occupational or cultural human group for its sustenance.

In 2010 the nation's poverty rate rose to a 17 - year high, with more than 46 million people — 15.1 % of the population - living in poverty and 49.9 million living without health insurance.

Why do we have the highest rate of poverty, the largest percentage of the population without health insurance, and the greatest number of gun deaths among any of the advanced industrial nations?

The great issues of our time are moral: the uses of power; wealth and poverty; human rights; the moral quality and character of society; loss of the sense of the common good in tandem with the pampering of private interests; domestic violence; outrageous legal and medical costs in a system of maldistributed services; unprecedented developments in biotechnologies which portend good but risk evil; the violation of public trust by high elected officials and their appointees; the growing militarization of many societies; continued racism; the persistence of hunger and malnutrition; a still exploding population in societies hard put to increase jobs and resources; abortion; euthanasia; care for the environment; the claims of future generations.

Glasgow and Dundee are also the principal centres of urban blight with only two - thirds of the working age populations in employment, and the highest Scottish levels of children living in poverty, to which can be added high levels of ill health and of alcohol and drug abuse.

Alabama and Mississippi: the most unhealthy region (e.g., the most obese, the most with cardiovascular diseases and etc.), the highest illiteracy rate, the highest teenage pregnancy rates, the most cities ranking in the top 25 most crimes, the most likely to regect scientific facts, the least taxed, the least to be unionized thus the highest proportion of the population in poverty... and of course, the most religious....

This was more than welcome in a region that has to cope with political instability, high crime rates, a tea industry suffering from falling prices and rising costs, and a large part of the population living below poverty level.

Though the mines help give Botswana, a country of 1.6 million people, a reasonably healthy economy, half the population lives in poverty, and the percentage of 15 - to -49-year-olds infected with HIV is the highest in the world.

The sample was stratified by country and electoral ward type to over-represent families in Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, and wards with a high proportion of disadvantaged and ethnic minority families.19 Electoral wards were defined as ethnic minority (at least 30 % of population «Black» or «Asian», 1991 census), with the remainder defined as disadvantaged (upper quartile Child Poverty Index20) or advantaged (not in upper quartile Child Poverty Index).

Yes, a big of the reason for our higher maternal mortality rate is general health of the population, which is associated with some other reasons: poverty and lack of access to care.

What Labour needs is a new social democratic revisionism, that heavily focuses on restructuring the welfare state, to unite communitarian and cosmopolitan voters, in an era of globalization, high inequalities, increased demands for choice, and an ageing population This requires applying the principles of solidarity, reciprocity and individual empowerment, in relation to reforming the welfare state, to make it more effective at tackling poverty and providing economic security, and to satisfy rising demands for choice.

Given its tiny population (1.8 million - equivalent to the size of Hampshire), its engorged public sector and its high, structural poverty and worklessness, it should think twice before jumping off the ledge.

In his introductory remark, Byrne painted a grim picture that Syracuse faces: sluggish economic development, fleeing population, high tax and rising level of poverty.

The beneficiaries of the takeover are the places like Kingston, Wawarsing and Ulster, all with higher - than - average poverty populations.

Numbers throughout the region reflect that this is an area with an aging population, high rates of cardiovascular disease and pockets of poverty, Haberstro said.

Tens of thousands of workers have been hired to work on newly drilled gas wells in Pennsylvania adjacent to the Southern Tier area of New York, which has been plagued by unemployment and poverty brought about by a declining agriculture base, high taxes, and a loss of local population.

Dr Philip Withington at the University of Cambridge has found that affluence rather than poverty has tended to drive consumption levels, especially among the middle classes and higher, even though legislation and enforcement is often focused on the poorer parts of the population.

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.

The school is located in a high poverty area with a diverse population.

During a debate over the consolidation held at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs this spring, Consensus representatives painted a grim picture: Syracuse is facing sluggish economic development and high poverty rates coupled with a fleeing population.

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.

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.

Bangladesh comes top of the «extremely vulnerable» category because of its large population, extreme rural poverty and high risk of flooding.

Among Northwestern cities, the Canadian metropolis, which is home to more than 2.3 million residents, has the highest population density; the greatest rates of cycling, walking and transit riding; and the fewest cars per capita, plus the highest life expectancy, lowest teen birth rate and lowest poverty rate.

In California, both NME and pertussis clusters were associated with factors characteristic of high socioeconomic status such as lower population density; lower average family size; lower percentage of racial or ethnic minorities; higher percentage of high school, college, or graduate school graduates; higher median household income; and lower percentage of families in poverty.

Karin Chenoweth: I was hired by the Achievement Alliance to identify and describe schools that have substantial populations of children of color and children of poverty that are high achieving or rapidly improving.

For the high - poverty population of students, having three - quarters of an hour to unload whatever baggage they brought into the classroom and leave it at the circle «allowed them to go about their business of being a student for the rest of the day.»

Our school — let's call it Jefferson — serves a high - poverty population of middle and high school students.

By selecting the 5 countries with the highest number of inhabitants (China, India, Indonesia, Pakistan and Bangladesh), with populations totaling nearly 3000 million inhabitants, we can see how more than 1.3 billion (44.8 %) live under the threshold of multidimensional poverty.

To the contrary, when schools serving similar populations were compared across the state of Indiana, and poverty was controlled for, those schools with relatively low suspension rates had higher, not lower test scores

Helping raise the Hispanic college graduation rate is an urgent goal, given the persistently high rate of poverty among Hispanic families, growth of the Hispanic population to account for one in five college - age Americans, and mounting concerns about racial and economic inequality.

This anxiety might be found in any public school, but in a socioeconomically disadvantaged school like Paul Cuffee, with a population that includes 89 % racial minorities, 77 % students qualifying for free or reduced lunch, and 46 % from families living in deep poverty (with household incomes at less than half the federal poverty level), the stakes are exceptionally high when spending decisions are made.

JOHN B. KING JR: Unfortunately, the history here is that in many school districts, we see that there are schools serving high - needs students where even the entire student population is in poverty, and they're actually spending 25 to 30 percent less than a school 10 blocks away that serves largely affluent students.

The outcomes of the Isolation of Poverty Index and Isolation of Wealth Index are highly correlated with district FRPL rates because districts with very high or low populations of FRPL - eligible students are much more likely to be economically isolated.

The demographic data suggest that charter high schools serve a student population with poverty and special education characteristics somewhere between those served by high schools located in «A» or «B» communities.

CPS faces the challenges of high student poverty and dismal test scores — though its selective - enrollment schools have posted some of the highest test scores in Illinois — and the district believes it needs more money to help its low - income population.

While local officials decried the loss of revenue, the district received significant supplementary funding because of the high poverty levels among its student population.

School leaders are again having to make tough decisions around personnel, extracurricular and after school programs, academic support in classes, and SEL services, such as Wellness Centers and counseling critical to populations that suffer from high rates of trauma and poverty.

At the time of our study, a high proportion of its student population was black, and a significant proportion of the community lived below the poverty line.

41 Additionally, rapid growth of America's Latino population over the past decade has contributed to growing isolation of Latino students, often in high - poverty schools.42

Larger schools with high - poverty student populations are most likely to experience limited leadership — even when we control for the effects of school level and urbanicity.

Three of the four districts we analyzed in detail have high poverty / high minority populations, yet they all welcomed the standards movement as helping them to define and achieve important (local) education goals.

Had the board voted to surrender control over the schools, all of which serve predominately black and Hispanic student populations in high - poverty neighborhoods, the district could have received a two - year reprieve from state sanctions.

State ID (9 sub-codes) District site ID (18 sub-codes) District size (large, medium, low) District poverty (high, medium, low) District diversity (high, medium, low) District location (urban, suburban, rural) School site ID School level (elementary, middle school, high school) School poverty (high, medium, low) School diversity (high, medium, low) School size (student population) Interviewee role district (superintendent, board member, staff, parent representative, community stakeholder) Interviewee role school (principal or assistant principal, teacher, teacher leader, other staff, parent representative) Interviewee gender Interviewee role experience (0 - 2 years, 3 - 5, 6 - 10, 11 +) Interviewee site experience (0 - 2 years, 3 - 5, 6 - 10, 11 +) Site visit date (site visit 1, 2, or 3) Document type (district, school, research memo).

On the one hand, studies have often combined results for several subject matter areas, elementary and secondary schools, or high - and low - poverty populations.

The results, largely based on standardized test performance with graduation rates and advanced course enrollment factored in, are praiseworthy given the district's challenges, high poverty (70 percent of its 345,000 students qualify for free or reduced - priced lunch), and large population of English language learners.The Education Village «includes all of the elements that make sense,» Miami - Dade Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho said in the Miami Herald.

This laminated guide from Eric Jensen discusses how poverty affects students and the best teaching strategies to meet the differing needs of this population, whether elementary, middle, or high school age.

ASCD believes that to close the achievement gap, all underserved populations — high - poverty students, students with special learning needs, students of different cultural backgrounds, nonnative speakers, and urban and rural students — must have access to