Sentences with phrase «minority children with»

Family structure also appears to play a role in the reunification of minority children with their biological parents.

The Trump Administration's proposed $ 250 million increase in funding for the federal Charter School Fund (as well as another $ 1 billion in Title I funds devoted to expanding intra-district choice for low - income children) is offset by the elimination of $ 2.2 billion in funding for Americorps, the program that helps districts provide poor and minority children with Teach for America recruits proven to improve their academic achievement.

If you want to understand how poorly suburban districts do in providing their growing enrollments of poor and minority children with high - quality education — and why reformers can not simply ignore those woes — take a glimpse at the school districts in tony Hamilton County, Ind., outside of Indianapolis, whose suburbs are home to some of the Hoosier State's most - prosperous families.

Considering that Teach For America is has been dedicated from day one to providing poor and minority children with high - quality education, it also can not ignore the injustices happening outside schools to the students their recruits serve.

This would also require them to admit that their «social compact» is little more than a step back to the bad old days before No Child's passage, when states, districts, teachers, and school leaders were allowed to ignore the needs of poor and minority children with impunity.

Emboldened by a California case overturning tenure on the grounds that it sticks too many poor and minority children with bad teachers, New York City parents are preparing to sue.

The rules requiring waiver states to submit plans for providing poor and minority children with high - quality teachers was unworkable because it doesn't address the supply problem at the heart of the teacher quality issues facing American public education; the fact that state education departments would have to battle with teachers» union affiliates, suburban districts, and the middle - class white families those districts serve made the entire concept a non-starter.

The California Department of Education has been harming language - minority children with its «single minded» emphasis on native - language instruction, a new report by a bipartisan state watchdog agency argues.

Put another way, we find strong evidence that schools may be biased against identifying minority children with clinically significant needs as having disabilities.

«New school - based program helps reduce absentee rate for urban minority children with asthma.»

Not exact matches

«These are good ways to transfer minority stock stakes to your children at levels that will trigger little or no tax liability,» explains Michael Mullaugh, an estate - settlement manager with Mellon Private Asset Management, in Pittsburgh.

These are good women, one who is a child welfare advocate, another who works with poor minority youth.

As more and more children get removed from the old ways of indoctrinating them all with religious belief from an early age, then atheism will become the norm, and religion the refuge of the minorities of the mentally ill and the lame seekers of cargo cults.

Together these leaders — long identified with the struggle for racial and economic justice — demand a test of vouchers with one basic criterion in mind: «Do public scholarships help or hurt our poorest children and the children of ethnic minorities?

These men and women have fought for the abolition of slavery (Wilberforce), established orphanages for abandoned children (Mueller), advanced civil rights for racial minorities (King), fought against HIV / AIDS (Koop), provided human touch, restored dignity, and shelter for the poor (Mother Teresa), created places of belonging and contribution for people with disabilities and special needs (Tada), and fought against the sex trade and human trafficking (Caine).

Modern education seems to have had little effect in breaking down sectarian barriers between Shi'as and Sunnis since, as with all minority religions, the Shi'as take special interest in the religious training of their children.

Their children also need to regularly connect with and learn from minority leaders of color.

According to the Faith and Families project published last year, only a minority of the children of mainliners are mainliners, whereas a strong majority of evangelical parents end up with evangelical children.

He has observed that the marginalization of women, racial / ethnic / minorities, Dalits, the poor, children, elderly and the sick, in short the majority of the people the world over, has escalated with the spread of the forces of globalization.

We seek through the vitality of influence and power to arrest the injustice of others but impose in turn new forms of injustice because we are never as just as we claim to be: parent with child, children with parents, protesters with establishment, majorities with minorities, minorities with majorities, rich nations with poor, and poor nations with rich.

An active distributor of Scripture to the country's Christian minority, Touma said many children are wailing in fear with their huddled families.

Jesus used his platform to create space for the bleeding woman to share her story, for the little children to come swap stories with him, and for alienated ethnic minorities to talk about their experiences and perspectives on faith.

Child - free marriage is viewed as a minority decision, but one that can be responsibly made by those concerned with overpopulation or those whose personal careers and psychological capacities do not dispose them to parenting.

(vi) engage particularly with groups of fathers who previously have been excluded from services and whose children are at risk of poor outcomes — including young fathers and black and minority ethnic fathers;

Our waiting children are often older, minorities, sibling groups who wish to be placed together, or children with emotional, mental and / or physical disabilities - children who are typically categorized as «special needs» or «hardest to place.»

Having a child with more than one partner is, in the US, more commonly associated with African American and some other minority groups (Manlove et al, 2008).

Remind your children that there are good people in Congress who are working to protect the rights of groups and minorities that Trump has targeted with his speeches.

Does that mean that if we move to an area where we have the minority religion we should be in the closet, or convert so our child doesn't have to deal with bullying of having a different faith?

But auditors — and Children's Centre staff themselves — felt they needed to do more to identify and provide outreach services to families with high levels of need, and the NAO found that «less progress was being made in improving services for fathers, parents of children with disabilities, and for ethnic minorities in areas with smaller minority populationsChildren's Centre staff themselves — felt they needed to do more to identify and provide outreach services to families with high levels of need, and the NAO found that «less progress was being made in improving services for fathers, parents of children with disabilities, and for ethnic minorities in areas with smaller minority populationschildren with disabilities, and for ethnic minorities in areas with smaller minority populations».

The sample was stratified by country and electoral ward type to over-represent families in Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, and wards with a high proportion of disadvantaged and ethnic minority families.19 Electoral wards were defined as ethnic minority (at least 30 % of population «Black» or «Asian», 1991 census), with the remainder defined as disadvantaged (upper quartile Child Poverty Index20) or advantaged (not in upper quartile Child Poverty Index).

Some of the potential causes of poor breastfeeding outcomes among black and Puerto Rican women include breastfeeding ambivalence (7), the availability of free formula from the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)(8), a high level of comfort with the idea of formula feeding (9), limited availability and lower intensity of WIC breastfeeding support for minority women (10, 11), and issues surrounding trust building and perceived mistreatment by providers (12).

In June 2012, CDC awarded a 3 - year cooperative agreement to the National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality to assist 89 hospitals, mostly located in states that have lower breastfeeding rates and that serve low - income and minority women, with improving maternity care practices to support breastfeeding and to move toward the Baby - Friendly designation.

Interestingly, the only non-ethnic in the race who doesn't also have minority children, Jim Gilmore, is unambiguously in last place for the Republican Party, the party with the most «white» support.

Ethnic minorities, people with disabilities, the drug and alcohol dependent, homeless people, the unemployed, sex workers, pensioners, school children — and together «We are the 99 %», the real uncensored outcome of neoliberal policies.

Sex offenders who move to New York state will no longer be able to exploit an FBI loophole when they apply for jobs at summer camps and other organizations that work with children, according to U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.

Whereas, Mr. Paladino acknowledged that he made these statements; And, Mr. Paladino is an elected official charged with the responsibility to represent children and families in a district comprised of over 70 % Black, Brown, Asian, Immigrant and other minority students and families; And, Mr. Paladino took an oath to ensure that students are afforded an environment which is free from fear and respects diversity within the school district and the community and is subject to all district policies; And,

The proposal would ease admissions rules for a few of the higher - performing schools with the intent of attracting more minority students, and parents who fear that their children will lose out are pushing back.

«We do not want Paul Ryan in our city visiting a school on Malcolm X Boulevard, a school with mostly minority children, to have a photo op,» Becker said.

When the Howard League published an independent review of the use of restraint against children by Lord Carlile he found staff were too quick to resort to violence and that it was disproportionately used against ethnic minority children and those with learning difficulties.

Anne Pope, with the NAACP, says the cap unfairly hurts poor and minority school children.

At the same time, schools remain heavily segregated - particularly across district lines - with most minority children heavily concentrated in certain urban districts.

3) Public School Education and Common Core During your meetings with our neighbors do you ever discuss the breakdown of the educational opportunities being provided to the minority children in East Ramapo?

«Even though I am «the only» in my department — the only female underrepresented minority, the only assistant professor with children, the only one doing education research — I know I will find allies across campus and students who can identify with my experience,» she says.

«This budget, if enacted, would jeopardize our nation's educational, scientific and health enterprises and limit access to critically needed mental and behavioral health services,» said Antonio E. Puente, president of the American Psychological Society (APS) in Washington, D.C. «These cuts would disproportionately affect people living in poverty, people with serious mental illness and other disabilities, women, children, people living with HIV / AIDS, older adults, ethnic and racial minorities, immigrants, and members of the LGBTQ community.»

Most children aged eight in all 16 countries were happy with their lives as a whole but a minority (around 6 per cent of children) had low well - being.

Enck blames the decline on more and more young people growing up in urban cultures removed from hunting, an increasing proportion of ethnic minorities (who are less likely to hunt) in the population and — surprise, surprise — the rise in single - parent families «with fewer opportunities for children to learn about hunting from their fathers».

This is particularly true of certain groups, such as ethnic minorities, those whose parents are not well - off, and women with children.

Senior author Dr Abraham Reichenberg, Professor of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and with King's IoPPN said: «It is important to bear in mind that many children will experience some difficulties with schoolwork or other intellectual tasks at some point in their lives, and only a small minority will go on to develop a psychotic disorder.»

James Guevara, M.D., M.P.H., of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and colleagues conducted a study to determine whether minority faculty development programs targeting underrepresented minority faculty are associated with increases in underrepresented minority faculty representation, recruitment, and promotion.

They controlled for an asthma diagnosis in the children, as anxiety and mood disorders are more prevalent among youth with asthma and especially more common in low socioeconomic minority children.