Sentences with phrase «income students who»

I'm not sure their recommendations for action are particularly helpful, though they do suggest that helping lower - income students who are particularly high - achieving with stress reduction counsel might make sense.

Supporting Parents Who Work and Go to School: A Portrait of Low - Income Students Who Are Employed (PDF - 429 KB) Spaulding, Derrick - Mills, & Callan (2016) Urban Institute Describes the characteristics of the 1 million low - income parents who attend school and also work.

Our program is designed for 90 % of low income students who meet federal low income guidelines and 10 % of students may be over income if space is available.

Ventura College also provides a MESA (Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement) program, which serves first generation, low income students who major in STEM.

Despite that infusion of cash, the loan burden on the low - income students who continue to dominate the student body has simply become too high.

Low - income students who are forced to attend community colleges are possibly subjected to less earning potential down the road.

Conservatives: Eliminate the income threshold used to assess the Canada Student Loans Program, so that students who work and earn money while studying won't be denied access to the program for that reason; reduce the expected parental contribution amount to increase loan accessibility to approximately 92,000 students across Canada; expand the number of low - and middle - income students who are eligible for the Canada Student Grant program by making these grants applicable to short - term, vocational programs; increase the maximum annual grant for low - and middle - income families from $ 3,500 to $ 4,000.

It offers college loans to low - income students who have little or no credit history.

GEAR UP (Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs) focus on increasing the number of low - income students who are prepared to enter and succeed in postsecondary education.

For instance, Alonso said when he compared low - income students who are African - American males in the city to students in that same demographic in the other 21 urban school districts, the city ranked eighth, ahead of Atlanta, Los Angeles and Chicago — cities that are considered to have had success with education reforms.

Though the school lunch program currently intends to provide meals for low - income students who need it most, stigma and shame prevent many students — particularly at the high school level — from accessing these meals, which is especially troubling since childhood hunger is still a pressing concern across the nation.

Picadome Elementary teachers packed and delivered lunches to low - income students who would have been deprived if schools are closed.

And low - income students who are engaged in the arts are more than twice as likely to graduate from college than their peers with no arts involvement.

In the latest study, lead author Elizabeth Palmer concluded that Choice students were doing better on math and reading tests compared to low - income students who weren't bused.

To that end, we support organizations across the United States that work to increase the numbers of low - income students who are ready for, enrolling in, and finishing college with a bachelor's degree.

A new $ 1 billion Opportunity Grants programs whereby states could apply for funding for scholarships to private schools for low income students who attend schools identified as needing improvement under ESSA; school districts participating in the ESSA - authorized weighted student funding pilot could use funds to expand open enrollment systems

The Chicago Longitudinal Study began in 1999 and has been following a cohort of 1,539 low - income students who were born in 1980.

This is especially true for Michigan's low - income students who need extra support at all levels,» said Gilda Z. Jacobs, President and CEO of the Michigan League for Public Policy.

««I think he [Bennett] still might be the subject of hearings if we had known during the [confirmation] hearing of his insensitivity toward the needs of students, particularly low - and low - middle income students who can only go to college because of federal aid,» [Senator Robert] Stafford [R] said in a telephone interview from Burlington, Vt..

After the 2004 - 05 school year, Choice is Yours looked like it could do no wrong — the math and reading scores of program participants were much higher than low - income students who chose not to be bused to the suburbs.

It has also been shown that money has the greatest impact when it is invested in improving the education of low - income students who come to school with the greatest needs when compared to their more affluent peers.

Kentucky already has several scholarship organizations that provide financial help to low - income students who wish to attend private or parochial schools.

And, as Rossiter argues, the supposed college - prep curriculum isn't even doing a good job with the low - income students who manage to make it to college: 64.5 % of low - income students who enroll in a two - year college need remedial classes, as do 31.9 % of those who enroll in a four - year college.

Nearly half of youth who applied for a summer job in 2015 were turned down, and this opportunity gap contributes to gaps in achievement even after high school, particularly for low - income students who lose access to supports that keep them safe, healthy, and engaged during the school year.

Frazier - Myers has spent decades committed to improving educational outcomes of low - income students who often struggle on the margins of the public school system.

Low - income students who are highly engaged in the arts are more than twice as likely (37 percent compared to 17 percent) to graduate college as their peers with no arts education.

For schools located in gentrifying areas, a neighborhood preference could result in excluding low - income students who live in areas with low - performing neighborhood schools.

Researchers at the University of Connecticut reported last year that when states require all students to take the ACT or SAT and cover the cost of taking such tests, there is a modest boost in the number of low - income students who go on to college.

We welcome articles on serving immigrant students, ELLs, and homeless youth; solutions for resource shortages in rural areas; and supports for low - income students who attend relatively affluent suburban schools.

A 2011 Rand Corp. study estimated an average summer learning loss of as much as two months of instruction for low - income students who were not mentally engaged during summer break.

YES Prep Public Schools» mission is to increase the number of low - income students who graduate from a four - year college prepared to compete in the global marketplace and give back to their communities.

Senate Bill 23 by state Sen. Dan Patrick, R - Houston, would offer tax credits to businesses that provide scholarship funding for low - income students who want to transfer from low - performing public schools to private or religious schools.

They say that charter schools also are public schools, as well as fully authorized by state law, and they work to narrow the achievement gap for many low - income students who have not thrived in traditional public schools.

Low - income students who complete the FAFSA may qualify for a Pell Grant of up to $ 5,920 a year.

According to former teachers and call in center workers, K12 INC also targets low income students who have almost no chance of success with the K21 INC program.

The Food Research and Action Center reported in 2010 that, nationally, only one in seven low - income students who relied upon the National School Lunch Program during the regular school year had access to summer meals.

Back in the 1980s, Derek Peterson was admitted to Stony Brook University in New York as part of a special program for low - income students who show potential but aren't fully prepared for college.

«Pell Grants provide access to college for low - income students who might not otherwise attend.

The think tank earlier this fall released a report showing low - income students who use Florida tax credit scholarships are more likely to enroll in college and obtain associate degrees.

But they worry about the impact on low - income students who are more likely to read below grade level and struggle with the fundamentals of literary analysis (much less making connections across multiple and challenging texts).

Low - income students who took dual enrollment classes completed college at lower rates than their wealthier peers, the report's data show (but they still do better than low - income students who didn't take such a class).

Furthermore, requiring institutions to disburse financial aid like a paycheck, when coupled with this approach to risk sharing, poses a dangerous threat to low - income students who could become homeless as a result of suddenly losing aid when they are unable to complete a semester.

Critics, however, see the program as a diversion from truly beneficial policies or even as a harmful dalliance into the lives of low - income students who most need a highly trained, highly skilled, and stable teacher workforce.

A Century Foundation study, «Housing Policy Is School Policy,» found that low - income students in Montgomery County who attend schools with low levels of poverty significantly outperform low - income students who attend schools with high poverty rates.

Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) GEAR UP (Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs) focus on increasing the number of low - income students who are prepared to enter and succeed in post secondary education.

It seems to us that whenever someone proposes actually holding teachers accountable for teaching (e.g. allowing principals to walk into their classrooms more than once a year to evaluate them; having real consequences for ineffective teaching or egregious behavior; etc.) there is a tsunami of push - back and vitriol that is knee - jerk, sadly effective and incredibly depressing if you know the very real impact their «teacher protection at all costs» policies have on students, especially low - income students who get the worst of the worst in our «zip code» - based system.

Chronic absence especially affects achievement for low - income students who depend more on school for opportunities to learn.

Summer Advantage averages two - month learning gains among low - income students who participate.

The impact of these graduates is hotly debated by those who, on the one hand, see this as a way to improve the supply of teachers by enticing some of America «s top students into teaching and those who, on the other hand, see the program as a harmful dalliance into the lives of low - income students who most need highly trained and highly skilled teachers.

Quote: «Every year the DOE laments the low numbers of minority and low - income students who qualify for G&T programs.