Sentences with phrase «kids out of poverty»

What if these interpersonal skills are what help lift poor kids out of poverty and enable economies to succeed?

School Superintendents in both cities say not enough money comes in from Albany to pay for educational programs and efforts that might help kids out of poverty.

On the other side are educators who say a more competitive, focused and accountable education system will lift kids out of poverty by giving them a ticket to college and the middle class.

The event benefits 12 U.S. and international charities that work to help lift kids out of poverty.

We delivered a Canada Child Benefit and it's going to lift hundreds of thousands of kids out of poverty.

Not exact matches

I fought for my kids to get money for years and now I am taking it into my own hands getting my Masters and will pull us out of poverty.

It's estimated that the EITC, paired with the Child Tax Credit, lifted 5 million children out of poverty in 2013 and can give families as much as $ 3,400 for child healthcare (that number can be more for families with more kids).

Athletes» out - of - wedlock kids can end up in poverty if their fathers are cut or retire before the children turn 18.

PT: One of the ones I'm most excited about is Expeditionary Learning Schools [now known as EL Education]-- about 150 schools spread out over the country in both public and charter schools, some with well - off kids, some with kids in poverty.

The announcement this week that the government is to commit an extra # 50m to grammar schools is not about supporting poor kids to achieve their best and become adults who climb out of poverty.

Stop telling us that allowing MMA fights for women will lift the countless females (usually with kids) out of poverty.

«2.5 million more jobs, economy is stronger, hundreds of thousands kids and pensioners lifted out of poverty, massively improved school results,» he said as an example.

Cornbread is a good kid in a bad neighborhood and he sees basketball as his family's ticket out of poverty.

Voucher supporters, charter advocates, standards nuts, teacher - effectiveness fanatics — we all fundamentally believe that fantastic schools staffed by dedicated educators can help poor kids climb out of poverty and compete with their affluent peers.

You do that through statistical procedure where you're basically taking the kids who show up at a teacher's doorstep and getting all the information that you can about them: their incoming tests, their poverty level, demographics, identification for special needs, etc., and trying to statistically factor those things out so that you are left with a clear picture of what teachers are contributing to student learning gains.

Suppose you knew there was something you could teach kids that, if it were learned and followed, would give them a 98 percent chance of breaking out of poverty and into the middle class.

By facilitating quality basic school education to kids in Kenyan slums, we want to help them to lift themselves out of poverty and become active citizens.

Taking job creation, workforce development, transportation, healthcare, etc out of the conversation about kids in poverty (these aspects get little attention compared to schooling, even health doesn't come close) because schooling will take care of all that is just playing into the hands of corporate and wealthy interests.

An 8th grade teacher in Avon dealing with a class that averages under.25 for the social promotion Index can't be compared with a teacher in high poverty area with kids with a 4.5 on the Social Promotion index — indicating they were socially promoted 4.5 times out of 6.

«Kids in poverty need to have the most credentialed, effective teachers if they're going to get out of poverty,» she said.

«You have this billionaire who doesn't have the life experience of poverty — the story of not being able to choose a quality school and having your kid go to a low - performance public school and not having a way out.»

It's unconscionable that 50 percent of kids growing up in poverty drop out of high school.

Observers are pointing out that with the resurgence of concentrated poverty in the U.S., the portion of our schools where nearly all the kids live in poverty has risen from 12 percent to 20 percent over the last 15 years.

«But I think all of us in public education: moms, dads, teachers, principals, and board members need to be focused on the number one priority which is educating kids and how we do that better, how do we improve outcomes, raise children out of poverty, get them to graduation, college, and career.

As education reform leaders and unions fight over policies that mandate rigorous teacher evaluations and encourage the growth of charter schools, poor kids are losing out in the most basic of ways — a situation that embeds them deeper in the cycle of poverty.

Their dogmatic belief that poverty is the root cause of educational underachievement is a cop - out in an age in which there are great examples of schools, traditional, charter and private, who are helping kids reach brighter futures.

we get food stamps to eat every month, and have no extra to buy our kids anything for fun or eating out, or enjoy a day out.The house is falling apart, its cold in the winter becouse i cant afford to buy feuel if we want a roof over our heads so take your pick.We live here in America and live at the brink of poverty with no end or hope in sight.

The city may not have as many moms as some other cities, but it has the lowest childcare costs out of the 10, affordable massages, and a relatively low poverty rate for married couples with kids under 18 (the rate for single - mom households is higher).

For the first time, Kids Count examined poverty levels in Newark by age group and found that five out of 10 children age 5 and under live in poverty.