Sentences with phrase «most vulnerable kids»

But for years, Michigan was leaving behind tens of thousands of its most vulnerable kids.

Our lowest - performing schools, largely serving our most vulnerable kids, will struggle to improve without sophisticated support from experienced professionals.

News from New York, the city whose most vulnerable kids are under siege from Randi Weingarten and the American Federation of Teachers: A new Quinnipiac Poll finds a majority of New Yorkers disapprove of the education policies of Mayor Bill de Blasio, who has followed Randi's radical agenda chapter and verse.

A huge swath of civil rights groups had been working intensely for months, pushing lawmakers to write a bill that would continue to hold states and school districts accountable for how they serve the country's most vulnerable kids.

The Prize is essential reading for anyone who cares about how to give hope to America's most vulnerable kids.»

These dearly held ideals aren't working today, especially for our most vulnerable kids.

Eighty - six private agencies rake in millions of taxpayer dollars to help NYC's Administration for Children's Services care for New York's most vulnerable kids — and their CEOs get big bucks.

«These findings show how the Department of Education is putting our most vulnerable kids at risk,» Stringer said, charging that homeless kids aren't getting the same attention as other students.

Not exact matches

But it reminded me of one important, reality - based fact: Most people begin to recognize their sexual orientation when they are just kids, when they are young and vulnerable like this little girl.

The eldest of four girls (Jennifer lost her elder sister Stacey in an accident when they were kids), Jennifer dedicates her time and energy to helping our most vulnerable.

The kids might be independent but they are — at least to me — at their most vulnerable and susceptible.

Making Kids Count is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization in the Mahoning Valley dedicated to the most vulnerable in our community, children.

Removing the most vulnerable populations from a very dangerous environment — kids, women and mentally ill people — is a key part, but there are other factors to be considered as well.

We stand ready to work with the Governor and others to give voice to our most vulnerable children, and to ensure that no kid goes hungry in New York.»

Kids may be most vulnerable to BPA very early in life, Babajko says.

Studies have shown that this is true even in kids; a single close relationship can be extraordinarily protective in even the most vulnerable of children.

«Who are the kids most vulnerable,» he asked.

Coming from the world of traditional public schools, Dr. Monroe initially didn't know much about charters or the work that they do for kids in our nation's most vulnerable areas.

In a system that is often touted as a model for what schools can do for kids, many of our most vulnerable students and families, particularly Latino families, are invisible.

Instead of going back to an accountability approach that was supposedly «demoralizing» teachers and school leaders charged with helping poor and minority kids succeed, Petrilli and others prefer the new approaches, which attempt to focus on the growth schools and districts make in helping our most - vulnerable.

At the same time, Tennessee and all the other states must stop excluding their most - vulnerable kids from NAEP altogether.

Kids are the most vulnerable citizens.

The students they take in are the poorest, most educationally vulnerable kids in the country,» she said.

What happened from 2006 - 11 in Hartford may have helped some kids, but came along with further marginalization of the most vulnerable children and families in our city.

In the process, they have forgotten their moral and political obligations as school reformers to the most - vulnerable children, the kids black and brown and poor and American Indian, who have been subjected to nearly two centuries of what can be best called educational genocide.

Data for dollars might seem like a fair trade until you realize tech companies are taking advantage of our youngest and most vulnerable population, our kids.

Aren't we in the middle of a renaissance of inequity, opening Magnet after Charter after Magnet, thus weakening the Traditional schools that inevitably serve the most vulnerable, the least literate, the least motivated, and the least advantaged kids?

After all, the United States struggles mightily in providing its most - vulnerable kids with high - quality education.

Citing national studies, Stevens points to several negative effects of suspensions on students apart from missing class time that include an increased risk of dropping out and getting arrested — and that the kids who are most vulnerable, including students of color, special education students, and gay and lesbian students, get singled out the most often.

For the last several years, NHTSA has joined with Safe Kids to sponsor a national effort to educate parents and caregivers about this little - known risk to the most vulnerable segment of our population.

«Kids are at their most vulnerable when they go to bed and therefore are much more inclined to be open with you,» she writes, explaining that her nighttime talks with her own teenage daughter proved among the most «fruitful and connecting» during those difficult years.

Through 3 focus areas (All That Kids Can Be, Healthy People, Strong Communities, and Poverty to Possibility) and 10 priorities, we support our city's most vulnerable.

Families often use term life to maximize their coverage when their family is most vulnerable to financial risk, often until their kids are out of college and the mortgage is paid off.