Sentences with phrase «income urban families»

The children were from predominantly low to middle income urban families with at least 60 % of them eligible for free and reduced lunch.

Many if not most low - income urban families will be hard - pressed to pay thousands per year for even inspiring Catholic schools when tuition - free charters are available.

This appears to be true in voucher programs targeted primarily at low - income urban families.

Not exact matches

«With substantial disposable incomes and often limited family responsibilities, these financially well - off young adults have contributed to new demand for luxury apartments and urban services such as restaurants and bars.»

U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson hopes to increase the amount that low - income families pay in rent and make it easier for...

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An Urban Institute study from that year estimated that one in six nonelderly (under age 65) Americans lives in a family in which adults work at least half - time but family income falls below twice the federal poverty level.

What is the potential of urban agriculture to be a source of community development, in terms of generating employment and additional income for hard - pressed family budgets, and helping to establish self - sustaining local and regional food economies?

«Young men who grow up in homes without fathers are twice as likely to end up in jail as those who come from traditional two - parent families... those boys whose fathers were absent from the household had double the odds of being incarcerated — even when other factors such as race, income, parent education and urban residence were held constant.»

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) works with property owners to offer reduced rent to low - income families.

2 - armed randomised control trial of a prenatal paediatric home visit for urban low - income families.

Women were defined by sociodemographic criteria in three studies: living in the three most disadvantaged postcode areas and over the age of 16 (Hoddinott 2012), over 18, nulliparous, low income families, who had not yet selected a paediatrician (Serwint 1996), and low - income urban women (Sellen 2013).

At 1:25 p.m., U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, will tour Capital Roots Urban Grow Center and hold a press conference urging the Senate to reject the Trump administration's budget proposal to cut SNAP benefits for low - income families, 594 River St., Troy.

Nearly 11 million American households pay over half of their income in rent despite the fact that the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) defines «affordable housing» as housing costing below 30 percent of a family's income for rent.

Matthew Chingos, a senior fellow at the Urban Institute, said Cuomo's plan «doesn't have anything new for lower - income families and piles all the new money into middle and upper - middle income families.»

SYEP was administered through Buffalo Urban League and provided services for 724 participating youths across Erie County, 563 of whom were categorized as having family incomes under 125 percent of the Federal Poverty Level.

U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson on Wednesday proposed raising the amount that low - income families are expected to pay for rent - tripling it for the poorest households - as well as encouraging those receiving housing subsidies to...

«There isn't a lot of granular information on poverty and slums in the cities we're working in,» says Brian English, country director of slum upgrading, urbanization and climate change initiatives in India for CHF, which was founded in 1952 as the Foundation for Cooperative Housing to provide affordable homes for low - income families in rural and urban America.

In their study, the researchers randomized 22 urban elementary schools serving low - income families to either the INSIGHTS intervention or a supplemental reading program, which served as a control condition.

U.S. Private Schools Increasingly Serve Affluent Families (Vox CEPR's Policy Portal) Richard Murnane discusses how fewer middle - class children are now enrolled in private schools and that an increase in residential segregation by income in the US means that urban public and urban private schools have less socioeconomic diversity than they had decades ago.

The priorities and language of reformers — achievement gaps, no - excuses schools, social justice, and the «civil rights issue of our generation «-- betrays a focus on fixing schools attended by urban, low - income families of color.

One can derive a better estimate from recent research conducted on other urban voucher programs that serve low - income families.

Riley seems to prefer the latter, but neither extreme is the ideal design for interventions geared toward income - disadvantaged urban families.

We also examine results separately for families with incomes below the poverty line (i.e., the poorest 19 percent of families), as compared to those at or above the poverty line, and families who live in rural areas (17 percent of all families), as compared to those in more urban areas.

Maybe he wants to consider how faith - based urban schools contribute to social capital or how choice empowers low - income families.

Last September, there was a groundbreaking study from the Urban Institute that looked at long - term outcomes in the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship program, which awards scholarships to eligible children from low - income families.

At Blackstone Valley Prep, analysis of the suburban and urban students» scores on the 2013 state exams measuring proficiency in reading and math offers 80 different snapshots, by grade, subject and family income, with Blackstone students faring better than their peers on nearly all.

It recruits a mix of black, Latino, and white families, in contrast to the homogeneous groups of low - income minority students urban charters generally serve.

100 % of Urban Prep graduates — all African - American males and mostly from low - income families — have been admitted to college.

For example, programs that target low - income families directly or indirectly (by virtue of being based in urban areas) will enroll low - income students.

Sonia Essaibi Prevention Science and Practice, Counseling Strand Hometown: Boston Then: Nonprofit work in Boston and New York City, supporting first - generation college - goers from low - income families Now: Working on licensure to become a school counselor at an urban public school

Meanwhile, increasingly middle - class Irish and Italian families started moving to the suburbs, leaving urban Catholic schools to cater to a majority of lower - income blacks and Hispanics.

The study also found that adolescents from urban, lower - income African - American families in which the mother and father were not living...

It has low - income urban areas facing myriad challenges and whose families don't have adequate access to great schools.

As Elaine Maag at the Urban - Brookings Tax Policy Center puts it, the proposed increase in the Child Tax Credit under the Framework would «provide no additional benefit for very low - income families; roughly replace the Framework's proposal to repeal personal exemptions for most middle - income families; and slightly increase taxes for higher income families.»

The annual award, announced today, honors large urban school systems that demonstrate the strongest student achievement and improvement while narrowing performance gaps between different groups based on family income and ethnicity.

As president and CEO of the Harlem Children's Zone (HCZ), a nonprofit geared toward helping low income children and families in New York City, Canada has improved the lives of thousands of children in urban settings through education and services.

Not only is the state's total population growing (Idaho is the 10th fastest growing state), but Gem State families are increasingly urban, non-white and lower income.

They prevent urban students, for example, from enrolling in suburban schools that typically have higher - income families and sometimes more lavish budgets.

Her current, collaborative projects include studies of Head Start children's literacy learning and teacher communities (the EPIC study), family engagement, and parent involvement; young fathers in urban settings; health and educational disparities within low - income communities; children of incarcerated parents; and intergenerational learning within African - American and Latino families.

When it comes to educating students from urban low - income families, according to a new study, one state leads the pack.

Although racial / ethnic differences in private school enrollment are largely explained by income differences, the urban / suburban and regional differences in private school enrollment patterns are large even among families with similar incomes.

City High is an urban school where more than half of the students are considered low income and many are first in their families to attend college.

Results are most positive for charter schools in urban areas, and several student subgroups see particularly strong positive benefits, including black and Hispanic students, students from low - income families, and students receiving special education services (CREDO, 2015).

As the report itself notes, these families were likely not representative of urban low - income populations generally.

These toolkit resources have inspired children, ages 6 - 9, and their families from low - income, urban communities to get outside, get moving, have fun, and learn science together.

Schools that admit a lot of students from low - income families and help a significant percentage of them find their way into to the top tier of earners aren't leafy private schools, but mostly urban...

So, KIPP's high - intensity approach won't work for most students, but that doesn't change the fact that the students who apply and remain are predominantly from lower - income families living in urban areas.»

Rhee has repeatedly claimed that the problem facing American education is not a lack of money, despite the fact that in Connecticut, at least, the lack of sufficient resources means urban students face larger class sizes, fewer options and middle - income and working families end up paying unfairly high local property taxes.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) targets low - income families for financial help paying for rental housing.