Sentences with phrase «highest number of children living in poverty»

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.

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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 numberIn 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 numberin 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 numberin 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 - povertChildren,» 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 - povertchildren 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 - povertchildren enrolled in preschool, high - schoolers who graduate on time, and number of children who live in low - povertchildren 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 povertIn 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 povertin poverty.