Sentences with phrase «impoverished children while»

DeVos sought to cut $ 9.2 billion from the department's budget of $ 68.2 billion, eliminating teacher training and college - prep programs for impoverished children while investing heavily to expand school choice through increasing funds for charter schools and possibly offering vouchers for private schools.

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Proponents of this idea argue that raising the threshold would keep free meals from going to kids who aren't actually economically distressed, while critics charge that doing so would harm children legitimately in need of assistance because the 40 percent threshold doesn't come close to capturing all the impoverished kids in a given population.

Spurred by the extreme inequities of the Gilded Age when industrial barons like the Carnegies and Rockefellers amassed huge fortunes while the majority of the country suffered in impoverished conditions, the Progressive Movement began to address issues such as child labor and fair wages.

Charter school seats are concentrated near downtown while more impoverished neighborhoods with more school aged children have fewer schools — requiring those seeking choice to travel significant distances in a city of 140 square miles.

«Why is it,» I wailed, «That the death of 150 well - to - do vacationers is worthy of silence, prayer, puja and tears, while the death of impoverished, starving children in third world countries is not?»

Divorced adults are more likely to become impoverished while their children experience psychological and economic stress hindering their social development.