Sentences with phrase «measure of poverty»

A greater number of students than in 2009 were found to be eligible for free - or reduced - price lunch, a common measure of poverty in education.

The district data also contain other information on students, such as race or ethnicity, gender, and eligibility for free or reduced - price lunch (a standard measure of poverty).

The usual headline measures of poverty focus on those with incomes less than 60 % of the median.

Critics of the expansion plans have focused on the low number of pupils attending grammar schools who are eligible for free school meals - used as a traditional measure of poverty.

Nearly three - quarters of the students qualify for free or reduced - price lunch, a standard measure of poverty, and the district is home to many refugees.

About 32 grammars are prioritising pupils on free school meals - a key measure of poverty - in their admissions, Mr Laws said in a speech, adding that the government would «fully support» any school that chose to change its admissions in this way.

He also develops three consumption - based measures of poverty that employ different measures of consumption but are conceptually similar to the ERPM, in that they are used to identify the portion of the elderly population with consumption levels less than half of the consumption levels of the non-elderly.

So I asked Letwin whether, given that the Conservatives say the central test of all future policies will be what they will do for the most disadvantaged, that ought to imply signing up to the government's goal of eradicating child poverty by 2020, or did he instead agree with many on the right who regard any relative measure of poverty as essentially bogus?

It may also be difficult to translate work done in this small school, where in any given year a quarter to 40 percent of students are eligible for free or reduced - price lunch, a federal measure of poverty, to larger, urban schools with higher concentrations of low - income students.

St Mary's University, where Ms Greening is speaking, recently published research showing that counting pupils eligible for free school meals had become an unreliable measure of poverty.

Ninety - six percent of HOPE students are eligible for free or reduced school meals, a common measure of poverty.

In this sense, it would be foolish for Cameron to challenge Tim Horton on the point that: «reliable measures of poverty have fallen since 1997 as important aspects of the welfare state have expanded once again.

«Household material hardship provides a quantifiable and remediable measure of poverty in pediatric oncology,» the study concludes.

(Eighty - eight percent of the school's students qualify for free or reduced - price lunch, a national measure of poverty.)

While FRPL is not an accurate measure of poverty, Husky A eligibility is just as bad.

Charter students who were eligible for free and reduced price lunch, a frequent measure of poverty, were only 0.02 SDs below non-poor students in math.

This is not an esoteric argument — most federal and state entitlement and benefit programs tie eligibility to need using the official measure of poverty.

However, evidence for the relationship between poverty and children's distress is limited by the use of measures of poverty at a single point in time, by a failure to examine race or ethnic differences, and by a lack of concern with explanations for poverty's effects.

Despite various limitations with the way GUS collects income information, this longitudinal measure of poverty can be used to compare GUS children with different durations of living in low - income households.

It warns that these schools admit around 9.4 % of pupils eligible for Free School Meals (FSM)- a key measure of poverty, compared to 17.2 % attending the average state school.

He uses three income - based measures of poverty: the LIM, the LICO, and what he has labelled the Elderly Relative Poverty Measure (ERPM), which is similar to the LIM but excludes the elderly from the base calculation of median family adjusted income.

Between 2005 and 2007 the number of pupils receiving free school meals — a standard measure of poverty — who went to university jumped by 18 % compared to a rise of 9 % among pupils not entitled to free school meals.

Those who assert that the U.S. has a sky - high poverty rate use a relative measure of poverty that assumes all families with less than half the median income of the country are by definition «poor.»

This year, the school district will enroll more than 53,170 students who qualify for free or reduced - price meals, a federal measure of poverty, a number greater than the total combined enrollment of the Arlington and Alexandria school systems.

Earlier this week, university research argued that take up of free school meals had become an unreliable measure of poverty - because it could miss hardship among those working in low - paid and insecure jobs.

For example, the most recent annual report from the Cowen Institute for Public Education Initiatives states that 89 percent of the students attending public schools in New Orleans during the 2012 - 2013 school year were black and that 82 percent of all students qualified for free or reduced price lunch, a common measure of poverty.

To a great extent, the test was simply a measure of poverty, not school quality.

Ninety percent of the students receive free lunch, a measure of poverty, and 94 percent are black or Hispanic.

The authors relied on data about students» eligibility for free and reduced - price lunch as a measure of poverty.

To complete her analysis, Cascio compared the academic outcomes of preschoolers who qualified for federal free - or reduced - price lunch programs, a standard measure of poverty, in states that offered universal preschool to similar preschoolers in states that offered only targeted preschool.

After all, at KIPP Infinity Middle School 99 % of students are Black or Hispanic, 85 % qualify for free or reduced lunch (a measure of poverty), and 25 % of students have disabilities.

At Liberty, a school for students at risk of dropping out where 87 percent of students are eligible for free or reduced price lunch — a measure of poverty — the faculty has attended multiple district - run trainings on the new standards and overhauled lesson plans.

And that's even with 90 percent of the students qualifying for free or reduced - price lunches - the measure of poverty used in Indiana schools.

One third of Shelby County's students are signed up for free - or reduced - price lunch, a measure of poverty, and nearly 40 percent are black, according to the state education department.

And more details will be given on the characteristics of pupils, such as free school meal entitlement (a measure of poverty), special educational needs and pupil age.

There's a strong correlation between lower socioeconomic status and lower test scores, so critics say the rankings are more a measure of poverty than anything else, and that test scores alone fail to tell the whole story of what's happening in a given school building.

About 70 percent of the entire population qualified for free and reduced price lunch, a measure of poverty.

Mr Laws told delegates it was «quite literally intolerable» that in some schools and certain areas of the country almost eight in 10 children on free school meals - a key measure of poverty - failed to get five good GCSEs, including maths and English.

Some people equate this figure with the «poverty line» although Statistics Canada expressly states that this is not a measure of poverty.

First we should reiterate that our measure of poverty may not be precise, most notably because GUS collects income information using just one question rather than as part of a detailed exercise.