Sentences with phrase «income kids of color»

«I wanted to really test my mettle and see if could really make a difference for low income kids of color,» he said.

That is, chartering is a movement that began with the aspiration of starting many kinds of schools, but it may have morphed into one that is only adept at starting one type of school: a highly structured school that is run by a CMO or an EMO and whose goal is to close achievement gaps for low - income kids of color while producing exceptional test scores.

The second guiding belief is that there is something fundamental in the right to choose and in the ability of the right school to actualize human potential, in particular for low - income kids of color who grow up in places like Sandtown - Winchester.

Not every college is prepared, interested, or has the resources to go the extra mile for low - income kids of color.

The one unambiguous, reform - driven victory of the last two decades has been the successful networks of urban charter schools that we used to call «no excuses» schools before the term, which once meant there's no excuse for adults to fail children, fell into disrepute and it became de rigueur within the movement to criticize those schools» discipline practices instead of applauding them for sending tens of thousands of low - income kids of color to college, which not long ago was nearly the entire point of the movement.

But if there's one clear, unambiguous victory that reformers can rightly claim, it's urban charter schools, which have generally served low - income kids of color very well.

Not exact matches

Sixteen years or so ago, you started a school that mostly tends to kids of color and low - income kids in Texas, the Carver School.

Those skeptics (and others) point out that in the 1960s and 1970s, «project - based learning» was used in some low - income schools as a euphemism for the practice of having poor kids build Lego models and doodle in coloring books while the rich kids across town learned how to read and do math.

Y4HS: Through research, personal experiences, and surveys, we have learned that kids of color and low - income kids are uniquely underserved when it comes to school food.

«Most kids who attend a charter school in New York come from low - income families of color who can't afford to move into a better school district.

«Congressman Ellison recognizes that progressive politics matter at the most local of levels: to families seeking a job that pays the bills, to kids from low - income families hoping to go to college, and to parents worried about whether their kids of color will be treated fairly by the criminal justice system.

«Pre-K has the highest impact for kids from low - income communities, kids of color, so in the very districts that probably can't afford it is exactly where we need it.»

The search system has a high potential allowing to use multiple physical (age range, height, body type, even color of eyes and hair), social (occupation, education, income etc.), personal (marital status, the number of kids, willing to have more) filters.

What Kids Think About Bullying And Kindness In The Trump Era (WBUR) Richard Weissbourd is quoted: «There is some evidence that low - income kids, and kids of color, are significantly more likely to be community - minded, to live interdependent lives, to help each other out,.&raKids Think About Bullying And Kindness In The Trump Era (WBUR) Richard Weissbourd is quoted: «There is some evidence that low - income kids, and kids of color, are significantly more likely to be community - minded, to live interdependent lives, to help each other out,.&rakids, and kids of color, are significantly more likely to be community - minded, to live interdependent lives, to help each other out,.&rakids of color, are significantly more likely to be community - minded, to live interdependent lives, to help each other out,.»

«We were always both focused on the students who were too often left behind in urban schools — low - income kids, kids of color.»

Because religious schools violate your personal sensibilities, you are telling low - income families — often single mothers, often people of color — that you want to deny them a choice they want for their kid, because of your values.

Too often, he noted, «It's kids from low - income families and kids of color who start out on the wrong side of those word gaps.

He says what matters is getting «a first - rate education,» and low - income parents of color don't believe «that their children can't learn well if they're not sitting alongside affluent white kids.»

Despite the Court of Appeal's flawed ruling, the laws challenged by Vergara harm our kids — especially low - income students and children of color — while pushing passionate, hard - working teachers out of the classroom.

Charter schools were established to offer a new opportunity to children, especially kids of color and kids from low - income families, who didn't have access to a schools that fit their educational needs.

The NAACP is involved in a lawsuit in Tallahassee, Florida where over 92,000 kids, many of them children of color and from low - income families, are at risk to lose their privately funded scholarships to attend the private schools of their choice.

Josh advocates for members of Minnesota's most underserved communities to ensure all kids, especially kids of color and low - income learners, have a great public education.

By every possible indicator, the kids that both of us care so much about — low - income students of color — are doing worse than their higher - income white counterparts.

Austin said Kids Coalition's goals were formed by his work organizing parents at low - performing schools in low - income and communities of color as well as his experience as an LA Unified parent at the high - performing Westside school his daughters attend.

I probably cover Lakewood's morally and fiscally bankrupt schools too often, but this Ocean County school district that enrolls almost entirely Latino and Black low - income students pushes all my education reform buttons: tyranny of the majority (in this case the ultra-Orthodox residents who control the municipal government and the school board); lack of accountability; lack of school choice for poor kids of color but anything goes (at public expense) for children of the ruling class; discrimination against minority special education students.

Since I spent much of my career seeing how the sausage gets made in the education sector, I try to keep a watchful eye on Tennessee's efforts to provide equitable education and accountability to low - income kids and students of color, especially as the state complies with the new federal education law, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).

DeVos» limited understanding of IDEA seems to presage a global ignorance of the role of the federal government in ensuring accountability for special needs kids, as well as other traditionally - disenfranchised groups like low - income students, students of color, and English - language learners.

Youth Together's Kids Count campaign met with the education advisor to California Governor Brown and the state board of education executive director about school funding inequities by race — a key factor linked to low - income students of color being pushed out of schools.

And it's especially important for kids of color or from low - income backgrounds.

I am so thankful that I live in a country where I can worship freely and without fear of being arrested for my beliefs, for the beautiful leaves which change colors during this time of the year, and for my job, which has provided the flexibility I needed to both be there for my kids and add to the family income.