Sentences with phrase «income youth by»

College Summit is dedicated to transforming the lives of low - income youth by connecting them to college and career.

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Most recently, it includes the «family tax cut», better known as income splitting for families with children under the age of eighteen, along with enrichments to the Universal Child Care Benefit (offset by the elimination of the Child Tax Credit) and to the youth fitness tax credit.

Why does Canada have a youth unemployment rate of over 15 per cent; a federal debt $ 150 billion higher than when the they took office in 2006; a federation weakened by federal - provincial squabbling over health, training and pensions; greater uncertainty about retirement; widening income inequality?

We are excited to help fulfill King Advisory's mission in helping Milwaukee County's youth by providing low - income and disadvantaged youth with the school supplies they need to start their school year off right.»

The effort, initiated by Inez Tenenbaum, Chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, is expected to educate thousands of youth football coaches on vital health and safety issues and provide nearly 13,000 new helmets to youth football players in low - income communities in 2012.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

New findings coauthored by Harvard Graduate School of Education Dean Kathleen McCartney, published today in the September / October 2009 issue of Child Development, reveals the quality of early childcare may play a role in boosting reading and math achievement among low - income youth.

Considering that the support to this phrase is a proxy to youth's perspective on gender equality, and that the traditional distribution of roles by gender clearly affects low - income young women, one would expect a general reduction of the agreement with this phrase.

I say this as one of the few government administrators openly interested in the rights of low - income families to access non-governmental schools: Absent better systemic answers than those offered by ideologues, publicly funded private school choice for all children will continue to be more of a factor in legislative debates and scholarly conferences than in the homes and neighborhoods of America's youth.

High schools should establish more orderly environments and do a better job preparing students for life after high school, particularly for youths from low - income families, according to a research brief by the National High School Center.

The book offers an unprecedented look into the inner workings of successful urban charter schools by profiling five high - performing urban charter schools serving predominately low - income, minority youth in Massachusetts.

More people to understand the consequences of inaction especially for low - income urban youth who are hit hard by our failure to provide every student with an excellent educational experience.

The homework centers are often used by youth who are homeless, from low - income backgrounds and in foster care.

Prior to joining La Piana Consulting, Onuka was Vice President of Program at College Summit, a national non-profit which transforms the lives of youth from low - income communities by equipping high school students to lead their peers to and through college.

In fact, a recent study by CCSA revealed that charter schools are helping to increase access to college for thousands of historically disadvantaged youth in California, including minority, low income and first - generation college - going students.

««By teaching to the test, we are depriving a generation of youth, particularly youth of color growing up in low - income communities, from developing the critical thinking skills they need, and our country needs, to be competitive in this global economy,» added Matt Cregor, Assistant Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund.

The three - year Concurrent Courses initiative, launched in 2008 and funded by the James Irvine Foundation, partnered high schools with colleges to create dual enrollment programs - high school students take college courses and earn college credit - and make them available to low - income youth who struggle academically or who are from minority college populations.

• Spread the word about school suspension and expulsion rates, including how many were issued by the school district, how many were issued at each school, the reasons for the suspension and the number of suspended students who were low - income, English learners, foster youth, African American, Latino and / or male.

The two proposals come forward as lawmakers consider legislation sponsored by the California PTA that would strengthen requirements that schools engage parents in spending decisions over the use of billions of dollars in state aid to targeted students — English learners, low - income students and foster youth.

A letter sent late last month to the SBE and signed by 30 members of the Legislature, also called on board members to enact spending regulations that require districts to show how extra funds for English language learners, foster youth and low - income students are being used to supplement their educational services.

For more than 40 years, The Piton Foundation, which is part of Gary Community Investments, has been committed to improving the lives of Colorado's low - income children and their families by increasing access to quality early childhood and youth development opportunities and fostering healthy family and community environments.

These problems are reinforced by Robert Putnam's conclusion in his new book, Our Kids, The American Dream in Crisis, that our lower - income youth no longer trust anyone to be there for them.

Inside Urban Charter Schools offers an unprecedentedly intimate glimpse into the world of charter schools by profiling five high - performing urban charter schools serving predominantly low - income, minority youth in Massachusetts

Green Dot has proven it can improve outcomes for low - income, high - risk youth, by building new schools, and through turnaround efforts, and in partnership with a unionized workforce.

When appropriate, data are disaggregated by race / ethnicity and other student sub-populations, including low income students, foster youth, and homeless students.

The dissertation investigates how low - income youth in Rio de Janeiro have come to participate in such interventions — largely couched in neoliberal ideas of individual responsibility and carried out by public - private partnerships — and the ways in which youth subvert and redirect these interventions and middle - class social identities into new forms of personhood and political agency.

Lack of access to high quality summer learning opportunities has real consequences — more than half of the achievement gap between lower and higher - income youth can be explained by unequal access to summer learning opportunities.

The state's Local Control Funding Formula (LCCF), created in 2013, aims to boost the achievement of disadvantaged students by increasing funding to schools that have more students from low - income families, English language learners and foster youth.

By this logic, since youth from higher - income homes, on average, have more academic and common knowledge than youth from lower - income homes, the test that conflates reading comprehension ability with opportunity to learn is perfectly fair.

The Kansas Humane Society is a community resource for pets and people by offering an array of services to promote the human / animal bond, including pet adoption; dog training; behavior consultation; pet supplies; social media outreach including mobile apps, spay / neuter services for the pets of low income families; youth education and community outreach; as well as private cremation and other end of life services for pets.

Friends of MADACC is managed by a board of directors and with the help of volunteers provides wellness programs that focus on helping low income families keep their pets healthy; education programs that focus on educating the youth on the importance of treating their pet as a family member and resisting pressure to engage in acts of cruelty.

With programs like Divvy for Everyone, Indego's equity program, BIKETOWN for All, Citi Bike for Youth, and many more, the people in this room are making sure that bike share is reaching lower income residents, people of color, women and others who have been historically underserved by transportation options.

Service Award for outstanding service by an adult individual for demonstrated involvement in the development and implementation of Scouting opportunities for youth from rural or low - income urban backgrounds.

IDEA — Special Education Grants to States Title I, Part A — Improving Basic Programs Operated by Local Educational Agencies Title I, Part C — Migrant Education Title I, Part D — Prevention and Intervention Programs for Children and Youth Who Are Neglected, Delinquent, or At - Risk Title II, Part II — Supporting Effective Instruction (Teacher Training and Teacher Retention) Title IV, Part A — Student Support and Academic Enrichment (SSAE) Grants Title VI, Part B, Subpart 1 — Small, Rural School Grant Program Title VI, Part B, Subpart 2 — Rural and Low - Income School Program Title VIII — Impact Aid McKinney - Vento Homeless Assistance Act Promoting Student Resilience

Improve academic engagement and achievement and help low - income, at - risk youth set goals for their future by providing effective, educational, and enriching out - of - school support services and activities

Study findings suggest that ACEs research should be broadened to include stressors experienced by youth in low - income urban settings.

The Centrepay program in the Alice Springs Town Camps; the Cape York Family Income Management (FIM) project, and financial literacy programs operated by the Fred Hollows Foundation and Ian Thorpe's Fountain for Youth provide some models for consideration.

Watch this presentation by one of the key authors of the PYD meta - review about «What We Know and Don't Know: Positive Youth Development in Low - to Middle - Income Countries».

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.

We addressed some of the prior criticisms of EBT research by ensuring that (1) participants and study context were clinically representative, (2) there were no systematic differences in clinician competence across conditions (ie, all clinicians were randomly assigned), and (3) the sample would include the ethnic diversity that critics have found insufficient in the randomized controlled trial literature.17 - 20 Accordingly, we obtained samples from outpatient treatment programs that served the general public across a broad demographic and income range, we included only youths whose families sought treatment (ie, no recruiting or advertising), all treatment was provided by professional clinicians employed in the participating programs, and all treatment was provided in those programs (ie, not in university laboratory clinics).