Sentences with phrase «income school areas»

Other incentives could be provided to encourage better teachers to move into low - income school areas.

Not exact matches

We've also partnered with the Tulsa Area Community Schools Initiative to offer classes at discounted rates at several lower - income sSchools Initiative to offer classes at discounted rates at several lower - income schoolsschools.

I am old school in this area because I track all of my earned income and expenses by hand.

In his free time, Brent teaches for - profit, social entrepreneurship to low - income, at - risk high school students in the Los Angeles & Bay Areas.

We built our schools in the low - income area.

Bob Lenz is the co-founder of the Envision Schools network of charters, which has made project - based learning the central pedagogical strategy in its four schools in the San Francisco Bay Area, all of which serve mostly low - income black and Latino stSchools network of charters, which has made project - based learning the central pedagogical strategy in its four schools in the San Francisco Bay Area, all of which serve mostly low - income black and Latino stschools in the San Francisco Bay Area, all of which serve mostly low - income black and Latino students.

Virginia's Summer Food Service Program provides nutritious meals and snacks to children (ages 18 and under) in low - income areas during June, July, and August when school is not in session.

In partnership with Chicago Public Schools, the company offers free tickets to more than 5,000 Chicago - area low - income students each season.

Learn how to gather, analyze, and compile breakfast data into a report that can be used to draw attention to areas of your state that could reach more low - income students with the School Breakfast Program.

As I outlined in a piece for Civil Eats, the House CNR bill would have seriously undermined key school food provisions, including taking a decidedly anti-science approach to school nutrition standards, significantly limiting the Community Eligibility Provision (which provides free meals to students in low - income areas without paperwork or stigma) and opening the junk food floodgates on school campuses by gutting the Smart Snacks rules for competitive food.

The Community Eligibility Program (CEP) is a meal service option for schools and school districts in low - income areas — allowing the nation's highest poverty schools and districts to serve breakfast and lunch at no cost to all enrolled students without the burden of collecting household applications.

I teach a nutrition education class to grade school students in low income areas and for one of their «tastes» we do fruit parfaits using yogurt, pureed fruit, and graham crackers as the sprinkles.

In this role, she is responsible for leading the efforts to improve public policies to end hunger, reduce poverty, promote nutrition and increase the availability of healthy affordable food in low - income areas; maximize participation in all federal nutrition programs (SNAP, school meals, early childhood nutrition, WIC, and summer meals); and educate the public about both the stark reality of hunger's existence in the nation's capital and the real opportunities for effective solutions.

Parents at schools in lower income areas are often times not given fair opportunities to voice their opinion on school food or other school related subjects.

Some schools (especially in low - income areas) have breakfasts, snacks or hot meals, but it's the result of a patchwork of government and private funding.

Despite this, their detailed tax policies are a net giveaway of 0.1 % of national income, their detailed social security measures would only provide a tenth of the cuts that they have said they want to deliver, and their commitments on aid, the NHS and schools would (relative to a real freeze) increase spending on these areas by 0.3 % of national income.

However, they could be required to direct resources to areas most likely to reduce income inequalities such as health campaigns and school spending.

The programme has targeted areas according to measures of relative disadvantage including the Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation (WIMD), free school meals and the proportion of children under four in households receiving income related benefits.

The fact is that lower - income groups are much more likely to see the benefits of spending in these areas as they are proportionately less likely to send their children to private fee - paying schools like Harrow or Eton, or have private health insurance and be registered with Harley St doctors.

Basically, school quality varies because schools predominantly draw from quite narrow geographic areas and neighborhoods are extremely segregated by education, income, race and other demographic factors, by design.

The least poorly funded schools tend to be rural schools in low income rural areas with an insufficient local tax base to support them and with high costs associated with a lack of economies of scale and large transportation costs for students.

Among them was a one - year extension of mayoral control when he wanted at least three and a mandate that the city show it funds each of its schools, which theoretically could prove embarrassing to a mayor who speaks out about income inequality if it shows schools in poorer areas are losing out.

BISON Children's Scholarship Fund, $ 10,000 to help pay for seven low - income Lockport - area children to attend the private school of their choice in 2017 - 18.

The tactics are «part of a politically and racially - motivated scheme to prevent minorities and other lower income children from attending PS 24 and other schools in the area,» the suit states.

This program --- already in place at Johnsburg Central School, Schroon Lake Central School, and other area public schools)-- provides bags of food for income - eligible kids for weekend use.

Ravitch has been a critic of education policies championed by Cuomo, including the expansion and protection of charter schools, which the governor says provides choice and opportunity to students in low - income areas.

The Education Investment Tax Credit will increase funds in two areas — donations to public schools, school districts and teacher - driven projects; and scholarships to help low - and middle - income students attend religious and other tuition - based schools, according to the NY Archdiocese.

Mr. Rivera said his campaign would focus on fighting the area's high unemployment rate, providing rent protection for low - income families and addressing school crowding.

«The findings, combined with previous research in this area, show that programs of this nature can enhance low - income children's self - regulation skills and, with it, enhance their academic achievement in early elementary school.»

In the past few years, another way that Kirschstein demonstrated her devotion to that future was by multiple visits, as part of an NIH outreach program for minority youngsters, to an elementary school in a low - income area of Washington, D.C., to talk about science with the students there.

Scientific research has shown that low - income and minority children who grow up in segregated neighborhoods and attend segregated schools have worse educational and economic outcomes than children in more integrated areas.

A low - income area like this, where there's a great sense of character and community, is what inspired Green to make «George Washington» soon after he graduated from the North Carolina School of the Arts.

Few private schools exist in Nevada, and those that do mostly (and predictably) operate in areas with enough high - income families to support them.

My experience teaching on the Tohono O'odham Native American Reservation, in low - income high schools and in a juvenile detention center often pulled me to areas of most need.

The expansion of charter and magnet schools, along with private school options, does provide some opportunities for children in high - poverty areas to attend schools that are more mixed in terms of class and income.

We are in a low - income area and more families are struggling economically, which is leading to more conflicts at home and in school.

National initiatives like the National Broadband Plan, as well as grants for hardware and software in schools and libraries, can help address the essential - tools gap that persists in some rural and low - income areas.

To make sure we go where the need is greatest, we only partner with schools in areas that serve low income communities and where there is a significant attainment gap between these children and their wealthier peers.

The bus travels to each district on eight - to 10 - week rotations, and after school, it pays a visit to low - income housing areas.

Shareski's school, in a lower - income area of Moose Jaw, provides a Sony DV camera and four video editing stations equipped with firewire cards (an interface for attaching peripheral devices, such as scanners, hard disks, and digital video cameras, to a computer).

One of the hardest parts is encouraging both the students and their parents not to undermatch a student — applying or attending a school that is not challenging enough — often an issue for kids in low - income areas, he explains.

Patrick Wolf explained that «private - school - choice programs disproportionately attract students from disadvantaged backgrounds,» noting that the choice participants are «considerably more likely to be low - income, lower - achieving, and African American, and much less likely to be white, as compared to the average public - school student in their area.»

Their «Capitol High,» a pseudonym for a predominantly black high school in a low - income area of Washington, D.C., had what the researchers said was an «oppositional culture» in which black youth dismissed academically oriented behavior as «white.»

In addition, a 2016 analysis by Innovate Public Schools found the majority of Bay Area public schools achieving above - average results for low - income Latino and African American students were charter sSchools found the majority of Bay Area public schools achieving above - average results for low - income Latino and African American students were charter sschools achieving above - average results for low - income Latino and African American students were charter schoolsschools.

«There are very few good options in school nutrition, and most schools serve their kids lousy food that is unappealing,» says Bob Nardo, managing director of operations for KIPP TEAM Charter Schools in Newark, N.J. «This is a problem everywhere, but particularly in low - income areas that are considered food deserts, where you can't get adequate, nutritious food schools serve their kids lousy food that is unappealing,» says Bob Nardo, managing director of operations for KIPP TEAM Charter Schools in Newark, N.J. «This is a problem everywhere, but particularly in low - income areas that are considered food deserts, where you can't get adequate, nutritious food Schools in Newark, N.J. «This is a problem everywhere, but particularly in low - income areas that are considered food deserts, where you can't get adequate, nutritious food nearby.

He recommends adjusting the expectations for the schools located within a given neighborhood based on the area's average income.

As charter schools across the country struggle to keep up with demand, a new federal tax incentive could hold the key to spurring billions of dollars in investment in low - income areas with limited access to quality public charter school options.

As noted above, in Ga and Hyderabad we were comparing public and private schools that were located in similar, low - income areas, while in Kibera, private schools served only slum children, and public schools served middle - class children as well as slum children.

GenerationOn has described how middle school students in Miami collected more than 1,000 books, decorated them with kind words, and then donated the books to children in low - income areas.

Central to the mission of this low - income, minority school is a commitment to the Expeditionary Learning Schools Outward Bound model of instruction and schoolwide reform that emphasizes project learning that extends across curriculum areas and takes students out of the classroom and into the community.