Sentences with phrase «income schoolchildren»

«This is a victory for minority and low - income schoolchildren, not only in Louisiana but around the country.»

Trying to make good on a long - unkept promise to the nation's low - income schoolchildren that they should receive as much education funding as everyone else.

Here's a tale of two cities for you: The villain is Mayor de Blasio, sentencing hundreds of minority, low - income schoolchildren to the educational guillotine.

Our Healthy School Food venture brings award - winning, farm - to - school menus to low - income schoolchildren across DC, all while creating living - wage careers for unemployed adults who have completed our Culinary Job Training program.

From the outset, they had two purposes: to help dispose of surplus agricultural commodities owned by the government as a result of price - support agreement with farmers, and to help prevent nutritional deficiencies among low - income schoolchildren.»

He wanted to first determine whether incoming schoolchildren were being screened in sufficient numbers.

Not exact matches

Four years later, the breakfast program had grown to serve 199 public elementary schools, and Esaian urged the school board to take it districtwide, crediting the program with improving the «intellectual, emotional, social and physical development» of schoolchildren from low - income families.

A continuation of our partnership with DC Public Schools that began in 2010, DCCK will serve nearly 1,000 more low - income students, providing healthy, scratch - cooked meals to schoolchildren at 12 District schools in Ward 7.

In a presentation to the school board in January 2011, CPS officials credited the breakfast program with improving the «intellectual, emotional, social and physical development» of schoolchildren from low - income families.

The blonde, 5» 11» Wagner supplemented her modelling and singing income by teaching theater arts to schoolchildren.

The educational futures of a group of low - income D.C. schoolchildren hinge on the answer.

After little more than a year, President Donald J. Trump's policies, values, and rhetoric have had a negative impact on our nation's most vulnerable schoolchildren, particularly low - income students and students of color.

Last year, Nevada's Legislature passed and Gov. Brian Sandoval signed a sweeping privatized education finance bill that would create Education Savings Accounts for all Nevada schoolchildren, regardless of their parents» income levels, allowing them to use the funds to send their kid to a private school or pay for tutoring or supplies in a home school or hybrid approach.

That formula takes into account a district's low - income population, but gaps remain in how much districts spend statewide, with wealthier districts able to spend more on schoolchildren.

«The scholarship program already serves as a lifeline to thousands of Louisiana schoolchildren from low - income families.»

«Yet, at the same time, Connecticut has taken steps that prevent these poor and minority children from having viable public - school alternatives — knowingly depriving low - income and minority schoolchildren of the vital educational opportunities available to their more affluent and predominantly white peers.»

After citing the evidence of large gaps in achievement by low - income students and English learners, Liu wrote, «The schoolchildren who brought these actions (Robles - Wong and Campaign for Quality Education) do not claim they are entitled to a world - class education.

«The scholarship program serves as a lifeline to thousands of Louisiana schoolchildren from low - income families who would otherwise have to attend an underperforming public school.»

In looking out for what is best for low - income and minority students, Brill contends, Wall Street hedge fund managers are a much more reliable ally than the middle - class teachers who educate schoolchildren every day.

Because students from low - income families and students of color make up more than half of all U.S. schoolchildren, continuing to improve the performance of these students is key to the nation's future success.

The Southern Education Foundation also reported that, «In 40 of the 50 states, low income students comprised no less than 40 percent of all public schoolchildren.

And a new study from the Southern Education Foundation reports that low income students are now a majority of the schoolchildren attending the nation's public schools.

Low - income students are now a majority of schoolchildren attending public schools in the United States.