Sentences with phrase «improve immigrant children»

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Clinton said she favored covering the children of undocumented immigrants under existing health care laws, as part of a larger fix to improve immigration laws.

Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen acknowledges that gaps in employment and wages do exist, but says government has been working on designing settlement programs to improve opportunities for immigrant women and their children.

Mario was an F.D.R. liberal (and child of immigrants) with an unyielding faith in the government's power to improve people's lives; Andrew is a product of the Nixon era, when that faith was tested and the government again had to prove its competence.

In a statement accompanying release of the agenda, Klein said that the «budget addresses issues... we can advance to improve participation in our elections, enhance our children's education, protect our workers, upgrade our infrastructure, and help our immigrant communities.

President Obama signed an executive order in 2012 protecting undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children, and studies suggest that this order, known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), markedly improved measures of mental health among its beneficiaries and their families.

The amount of money that the AND receives from the food industry is fairly insignificant in terms of the AND's overall budget, but the work that thousands of registered dietitians are doing in under - served communities, with children and families, with the elderly, with immigrants in helping improve health is worth billions of dollars in terms of health care savings.

This has often been the case with magnet schools and is now happening with language immersion programs originally geared toward helping Latino and other children from immigrant households improve their English fluency.

Advocates for Children of New York (AFC)'s Immigrant Students» Rights Project combines our distinctive leadership in the field of public education advocacy with our in - depth knowledge of the needs of immigrant students, students learning English, and their families to improve student achievement and advance meaningfuImmigrant Students» Rights Project combines our distinctive leadership in the field of public education advocacy with our in - depth knowledge of the needs of immigrant students, students learning English, and their families to improve student achievement and advance meaningfuimmigrant students, students learning English, and their families to improve student achievement and advance meaningful reform.

These tests deny diplomas to tens of thousands of students, disproportionately children of color, immigrants or youth with special needs; they do not improve college or career prospects but feed the school - to - prison pipeline; new Common Core tests are likely to increase the dropout rate; and more.

That there are more Latino children in public schools now than at the time George W. Bush signed No Child into law, and yet, are improving academically proves the too - many - immigrant - and - minority children argument to be pure sophistry.

Findings are couched in the context of improving practices and policies in U.S. schools that serve Mexican immigrant children.

My two favorite jobs have been working with youths - at - risk, helping them integrate into the work force and tutoring immigrant children to improve their English.

I was delighted when August Aldebot - Green of Child Trends, an organization that works to improve children's lives through high - quality research, shared this carefully curated list of resources for making schools supportive and safe for students from immigrant families.

For Children of Black Immigrant Mothers, Parental Literacy and Center - Based Childcare Improve School Readiness

This year's Race for Results provides detailed data on disparities by race and ethnicity that must be closed in order to improve outcomes for all children and also includes recommendations to policymakers on addressing the specific barriers immigrant children and children of immigrants face.

The Casey Foundation believes in using data to create policies that improve the well - being of all children including children in immigrant families.

Chinese immigrant use of smartphone apps toward improving child mental health awareness and resource delivery: A pilot study.