Sentences with phrase «lower average family»

In California, both NME and pertussis clusters were associated with factors characteristic of high socioeconomic status such as lower population density; lower average family size; lower percentage of racial or ethnic minorities; higher percentage of high school, college, or graduate school graduates; higher median household income; and lower percentage of families in poverty.

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And we seem to feel our friends and family are trending on the naughty side, since the $ 720 estimate in November is actually lower than the projection in October, when Gallup found the average commitment to be $ 781.

As a result of our Government's low - tax plan, the average Canadian family now pays 3,200 dollars less in taxes every year.

Benefits — Each family / real estate investor keeps average $ 600 / mo for 2 yrs, real estate in all major metropolitans will have a traded price, increase buying power of low income high credit citizens, stimulate real estate investment by making it easier for investors to cash flow a rental property, reduce home inventory, the increase home values and liquidity provides incentive to put the $ X trillion in capital currently on the sidelines back to work and mortgage prepayments will increase capital availability.

There are two options for this type of loan: the guaranteed loan for the average - income borrower and the direct loan for low - income families.

Obama cited statistics released the same day in the White House's new report from his Council of Economic Advisers which show that conflicts likely lead, on average, to 1 percentage point lower annual returns on retirement savings as well as $ 17 billion of losses every year for working and middle - class families.

The report said the low - cost student pass has helped halve average family transportation costs by $ 23 a month.

-- The top quintile (top 20 per cent) saw their family income grow by 27 per cent during that time (average after - tax, after - transfer family income of $ 135,500), compared to 14 per cent for the second - highest quintile (after - tax family income of $ 73,500), nine per cent for the second - lowest quintile ($ 32,700) and 16 per cent for the bottom one - fifth of income earners (after - tax income of $ 14,600)

Conflicts of interest likely lead, on average, to 1 percentage point lower annual returns on the retirement savings of middle - class families, according to a recent report by the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA).

There are two types of loans available, the Guaranteed Housing Loan for the average income borrower and the Direct Housing Loan for low - income families.

He has one of the three highest academic averages in the history of Mansfield High — he received a B for one marking period in seventh - grade English but nothing lower than an A since — and will certainly become the fourth member of his family named most likely to succeed by his classmates at graduation.

(Educare families pay no tuition; an average of 16 percent of the funding comes from philanthropic support, and the rest comes from federal Head Start and Early Head Start funds and other government subsidies for low - income parents.)

Even though almost every student at the KIPP Academy... is from a low - income family, and all but a few are either black or Hispanic, and most enter below grade level, they are still a step above other kids in the neighborhood; on their math tests in the fourth grade (the year before they arrived at KIPP), KIPP students in the Bronx scored well above the average for the district, and on their fourth - grade reading tests they often scored above the average for the entire city.

Here, to illustrate the connection between fatherhood and child well - being, I compare adolescent boys and girls who fall into one of four categories: those living in an intact, married family with a high - quality relationship with their father (top third), or an average - quality relationship with their father (middle third), or a low - quality relationship with him (bottom third), or living in a single - mother family.

For example, in their study of 64 families, Ferguson and Vanderpool14 found that fathers» average total risk factors were lower at the end of the home visitation program than at the beginning of the program.

Research commissioned by the charity shows that 2.4 million low - income families would pay, on average, # 138 more in council tax in 2013/14 owing to reductions in council tax benefit.»

Although the state's economy grew, average New York families» living standards are lower than in 1989, despite working more hours to make ends meet.

«As usual, the administration sides with big, powerful special interests over the interests of average American families, who will pay the price for lower miles per gallon and dirtier air,» said Chuck Schumer, the Senate Democratic Leader, in a statement.

«His proposal to repeal the A.M.T. would have slashed his own tax burden by $ 31 million, and his income tax rate would be lower than the average rate paid by families earning $ 75,000 to $ 100,000.»

Raising America's average scores on international comparisons is, therefore, not a matter of repairing a broken educational system that performs poorly overall, as many critiques suggest, but rather of improving the performance of the children at the bottom, overwhelmingly from low - income families and racial and ethnic minorities.

Countries with the highest emissions per capita tend to have smaller families on average, whereas those with low emissions per capita tend to have larger ones.

«Black and Latino families have lower incomes on average than white families, and they face housing market discrimination that influences where they live, regardless of the high value that they may place on school options,» Owens said.

Doctors are now questioning whether the screening age for colorectal cancer should be lowered in people with average risk (meaning they have no family history of the disease), says Dr. Cercek.

Average lifters or athletes with significant stress in their lives (i.e. career, family, etc.) will need at least a week to recover from a hard leg and low back workout.

One of the myths about the vegan lifestyle is that it's too expensive for the average or low - income family.

They also searched official recordsof deaths and found that the longevity of those with a family history of thisgenetic aberration was not lower before the year 1900; in fact, on average theylived longer than other people.

The Bad News: With an average of 3.8 million and a 1.2, it is still ABC's least - watched and lowest - rated comedy — even getting beaten by the reviled Mixology, which inexplicably remains in the post-Modern Family berth far more suitable for Trophy Wife.

Districts that are higher performing by this indicator actually spend, on average, no more than the lower performing districts (after adjustment for differences in family income, special - education placements, and the percentage of students who are of limited English proficiency).

Why do kids from low - income families tend to score so much lower on average than their more - affluent peers?

As can be seen in Figure 1a, states with higher percentages of students from low - income families report lower average scale scores in 8th - grade math on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).

If high - income parents are more likely to make a request, and such requests are for better teachers on average, then the availability of requests could exacerbate the achievement gap between students from low - and high - income families, even if all families equally value academic achievement.

Pupils from low income families had a 29 per cent chance of being rated below average at reading by teachers, compared to 20 per cent of equally able classmates from high income backgrounds.

My own and other studies show that children from low - income families enter kindergarten a year to a year and a half, on average, behind middle - class children in their language and many other cognitive skills.This is a gigantic lag considering that they are only five to six years old.

She said: «I can't say definitely based on my research but we do know that teacher expectation and assessments can have a longterm effect on pupil progress, because it can affect their interaction, in terms of the groups they are put in... If you are an average - scoring boy from a lower income family, or an average - scoring girl in maths, and you are placed in a lower set then that is going to potentially depress your longterm trajectory.»

Evidence summarised in the Teaching and Learning Toolkit suggests that, on average, TAs have a small positive impact on learning, but highlights that for some children, particularly those from low ‑ income families, working with a teaching assistant can actually be associated with a negative impact on learning.

That same year 19,852 students eligible for special education took advantage of the opportunity to use a voucher to attend private schools, and 21,493 students received scholarships averaging $ 3,750 from a tax credit program that opened private schooling to students from low - income families.

The law places no limits on recipients» household incomes (i.e., it's not «means - tested» for low - income families), and in fact the average adjusted gross income of recipient families was $ 51,923, slightly higher than the state's 2012 median income.

Students in the FTC program, despite coming from low - income families, enrolled in Florida public colleges at almost the same rates as the average student in Florida, regardless of income.

The higher prices charged by private colleges, on average, would seem to make it more difficult for them to recruit and retain students from low - income families.

[iii] In addition to enrollment, I also use IPEDS data on net price for low - income students (tuition, fees, room, board, and other expenses less grants and scholarships for dependent students from families making less than $ 30,000 per year), the share of in - state students, and average SAT / ACT scores.

We found negligible differences in teacher quality between programs, amounting to no more than 3 percent of the average test - score gap between students from low - income families and their more affluent peers.

Moreover, the quality of district schools can vary significantly, and the schools to which students from low - income families are generally assigned tend to underperform significantly on average.

Improvement for students from low - income families attending charter schools has, however, doubled the national average gain.

[14] All participating schools generally must have a percentage of children from low - income families that is higher than the LEA's average or 35 percent, whichever is lower.

The estimate moves lower to the extent that parents use less than 40 hours of week of nonparental care, and continue to utilize family daycare and in - home help that is less expensive than the national average for center - based care, both of which seem likely.

Because he believes that poor children are disproportionately below average in academic ability, Murray's second test is Title I, a popular federal program whose goal is to upgrade the schools attended by children from low - income families.

Westwood's plan calls for dividing the school into multi-age, multi-grade «families» to create a sense of belonging in a large school, implementing a community building component called Township 2000 that mimics a small city, and experimenting with new teaching and assessment strategies that promise to raise standardized test scores, within a year, by 3 % for average students and double that for low achievers.

By and large, L.A. Unified charters also outperform the district average in API scores and graduation rates for Latino and African American students, and students from low - income families; in other words, they are succeeding at closing the socioeconomic achievement gap that plagues U.S. education.

In 2014, parents of students at Horace Mann Elementary School in Northwest Washington, D.C., spent over $ 470,000 of their own money to support the school's programs.1 With just under 290 students enrolled for the 2013 - 14 school year, this means that, in addition to public funding, Horace Mann spent about an extra $ 1,600 for each student.2 Those dollars — equivalent to 9 percent of the District of Columbia's average per - pupil spending3 — paid for new art and music teachers and classroom aides to allow for small group instruction.4 During the same school year, the parent - teacher association, or PTA, raised another $ 100,000 in parent donations and collected over $ 200,000 in membership dues, which it used for similar initiatives in future years.5 Not surprisingly, Horace Mann is one of the most affluent schools in the city, with only 6 percent of students coming from low - income families.6

Boehm extolls the charter school system: «Pennsylvania boasts a robust charter school system that includes cyber charter schools; the Education Improvement Tax Credit, or EITC, which provides an average scholarship of $ 1,000 to low - income families who want their children to attend private schools; and rules that allow parents to teach their students at home.»