Sentences with phrase «many high poverty»

This is a key change as senior adults once had the highest poverty rates.

High poverty levels aren't a sufficient reason either, seeing as other countries with low levels of per - capita income, such as Kenya and Jamaica, consistently fare better, he added.

The DA is a powerful position in Philadelphia, a city with the highest rate of incarceration, the highest poverty rate, and the third highest violent crime rate of the US's 10 most populated cities.

An Analysis of the Economic Circumstances of Canadian Seniors, authored by statistician Richard Shillington of Tristat Resources and released by the Broadbent Institute, also shows the Old Age Security (OAS) and Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS) guarantee levels are falling behind and trends in income sources for seniors suggest that high poverty rates among seniors will further increase.

and yet, the lowest educational levels and highest poverty rates are in the most religious states.

Roland Fryer, a celebrated young professor of economics at Harvard University, has spent the past decade testing out a variety of incentive schemes in experiments with public school students in Houston, New York, Chicago, and other American cities that have school systems with high poverty rates.

The Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) is a powerful new tool that allows high poverty schools and school divisions to offer breakfast and lunch to all students at no charge.

Further, unmarried women (whether single, widowed or divorced) face significantly higher poverty rates in middle and old age, according to a study by the Institute for Women's Policy Research that AARP published last year.

«In any school, whether it's a high poverty or low poverty school, there are always some kids that have had very stressful beginnings.

One significant victory in that battle was last year's passage of the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act which, among other things, uses Medicaid data to directly certify children for free and reduced price meals; helps states improve the certification process for school meal aid; allows universal free meals for students in high poverty communities; and expands USDA authority to support meals served to at - risk children in after school programs.

«As parents, we want to shield our children from the pains of growing up and facing difficult situations, but long term we must honor our kids» desire for some struggle,» Tough said, adding that the struggles between those with high incomes and high poverty are different and require distinct supports.

However, it's really, really hard to teach grit and resilience in a high poverty school.

The Community Eligibility Program (CEP) is a meal service option for schools and school districts in low - income areas — allowing the nation's highest poverty schools and districts to serve breakfast and lunch at no cost to all enrolled students without the burden of collecting household applications.

In areas of high poverty, poor healthcare, and inadequate sanitation, bottle - feeding does not meet any of these criteria, and as such the decision to breastfeed must be made on a case - by - case basis.

According to Laura Bronstein, dean of the CCPA, the school is looking forward to being involved with the program and is partnering with the Promise Zone, a program that designates high poverty areas in New York state that need assistance in school services.

I encourage you to visit the Chicago Tutor / Mentor Program Locator and see how we're using a desk top ESRI GIS and an on - line, interactive Google - based map to draw volunteers and donors to tutor / mentor programs in high poverty areas of Chicago.

Data released by the Census Bureau yesterday casts additional light on New York's high poverty rate and its extreme income inequality.

Think about what we can do in all those poor communities where you still have one of the highest poverty rates in the nation and the help we could do to people and the effect you could have on humanity.

Prior to that, Cuomo also announced «the Empire State Poverty Reduction Initiative,» a $ 25 million program to «bring together state and local government, non-profit and business groups to design and implement coordinated solutions to increase social mobility in ten cities with the highest poverty rates in the state.»

«With all the problems the city faces - high poverty, failing infrastructure, struggling schools - he chose to see if the money's where it's supposed to be with those things,» Hawkins said.

The latest in our series on education, «What it Takes: Chasing Graduation at High Poverty High Schools,» examines the reason why nearly 20 percent of students don't finish high school.

With recent studies showing that Rochester has among the highest poverty and child poverty rates in the country, Hochul says the task force will better coordinate services that are already available.

The mayor of Syracuse says her city's high poverty rate is always on her mind, even if she didn't mention it in her 2015 agenda.

And while he and Rumore agreed that the city's high poverty rate creates particular challenges for schools and that increased funding is necessary for a turnaround, Quinn said the district needs to «get its act together» before asking for any more money.

New York, NY — StudentsFirstNY today issued a brief analysis comparing the difference in teacher effectiveness between New York City's high poverty and low poverty districts following the State Education Department's recent release of teacher evaluation data.

Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner did not mention the high poverty rate or discuss programs targeted to reduce it during her recent State of the City address.

Students In High Poverty Districts More Than Twice as Likely to be Taught by Non-Effective Teachers

«Central New York has one of the highest poverty rates in the country, and with respect to minorities, Hispanics and African Americans, it is the highest poverty rate in the country,» Katko said.

I am proposing $ 25 million to expand that initiative to the ten cities in upstate New York with the highest poverty rate.

We are simply asking that, in a borough that has the highest poverty rate in the nation and has consistently seen the highest unemployment numbers in New York State, Related and their future tenants provide living wage jobs with benefits that allow Bronxites a chance to provide for their families and to build a better life.

The initiative just got started, and its efforts are being closely watched by other areas in the state like Syracuse that also have high poverty rates.

The critical report is part of the Alliance for Quality Education's multi-year campaign to get billions more in school aid for districts like Utica that suffer from high poverty rates.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Syracuse and nine other Upstate New York cities with the highest poverty rates will receive $ 500,000 grants to develop strategies to help poor people in Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposed state budget.

The school is located in a high poverty area with a diverse population.

Children from the high poverty neighborhoods surrounding Coney Island's PS 188 faced a number of challenges when the school joined our first CLS cohort in the 2012 - 13 school year — worsened by Hurricane Sandy.

During a debate over the consolidation held at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs this spring, Consensus representatives painted a grim picture: Syracuse is facing sluggish economic development and high poverty rates coupled with a fleeing population.

During his initial primary campaign for District 4's council seat last year, Greene focused on Syracuse's high poverty rate and the city's school district.

Fowler said he is running because the city lags in economic performance and has a high poverty rate.

He also noted that the city needs to focus on what's important, including Syracuse's high poverty rate.

We have a very high poverty rate,» she told The Associated Press on Friday.

But data shows that many rural communities have higher poverty rates and far more challenges when it comes to linking people to services.

A Buffalo Public School with a high poverty rate that is following its own formula which includes the Common Core and is achieving some success.

Although it is the most profitable agricultural area in the nation, Fresno County had the highest poverty rate in California in 2010, with 26.8 percent of its nearly 1 million residents living in poverty.

He writes, «In the University of Michigan undergraduate case, Gratz v. Bollinger, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, joined by Justices David H. Souter and Stephen Breyer, supported affirmative action with data finding that African - American and Hispanic students have higher poverty rates than white students (22.1 percent and 21.2 percent compared with 7.5 percent), and that black and Latino students «are all too often educated in poverty - stricken and underperforming institutions.»»

With roots as an agricultural town out of The Grapes of Wrath, Fresno has gangs, high poverty rates and a downtown that is frequently voted the worst in the state.

The economic consequences for Antigua include higher poverty rates, higher insurance premiums and more infrastructure costs to make the island better able to withstand future storms.

We contrasted decades with high disaster activity to decades of comparable calm, thus making it unlikely that we are simply observing areas with higher poverty rates.

«The higher HPV vaccination rates among girls living in poor communities and majority Hispanic communities, which also tend to have high poverty rates, are encouraging because these communities often have higher cervical cancer rates, but continued cervical cancer screening of vaccinated and unvaccinated women is needed because the vaccine does not cover all cancer - causing HPV types and sexually active women could have been infected prior to vaccination.»

Despite decades of educational reform and legal efforts, many U.S. schools are experiencing increasing segregation, with 16 percent of public schools serving both minority and high poverty students.

Drought underscores the problem These communities had relatively high poverty rates — one more than 20 percent — so residents appreciated the boost to the local economy, however small.