Sentences with phrase «of generational poverty»

What I learned in the inner city is that to be caught in the cycle of generational poverty is to experience a bankruptcy of spirit, a deficit of hope.
I also see the devastating impacts of generational poverty on performance.
I think that the depth of the generational poverty and what our kids bring into school every day makes it even harder than we initially expected.
Much of the community finds itself in a cycle of generational poverty.
This is how we break the cycle of generational poverty for Maine's children.»
The solutions to the deepest problems of generational poverty, dependency and unemployment will take a generation to address and we must move beyond the sticking plaster politics of pretending that there are any easy or quick fixes.
HB 5105 completely ignores the fact that struggling D or F schools face the deep effects of generational poverty that requires greater investment and support.
(A large part of Northwestern Settlement's mission statement, by the by, is to work alongside the community to break the pattern of generational poverty.)
I am hoping that Paul Tough will be the education writer who frees us to engage in frank discussions of the effects of intense concentrations of generational poverty on schools.
In the voice - over that introduces his character, Hap Jackson, patriarch of a black sharecropping family, laments that African - Americans are barred from land ownership through a combination of generational poverty and white plunder, drawing a direct connection between the racist oppression of former slaves and their lack of access to capital.
Legislators have ignored and failed to address the impact of generational poverty for decades.
Republican supporters of the measure touted «schools of hope» as a way to help break the cycle of generational poverty in communities that are frequently home to black and Hispanic populations, because they said these specialized charter operators would use innovative techniques that have been proven to work in other places, like New York or Washington, D.C.
He carefully articulated that he wanted a good education because he knew it was his «ticket» out of generational poverty (he even used this term).
It also may mean our students will be unable to find employment providing living wages, resulting in the perpetuation of generational poverty.
Promise Neighborhoods Institute at PolicyLink Promise Neighborhoods Institute at PolicyLink (2010) Describes an initiative developed to break the cycle of generational poverty by improving the educational outcomes and overall life prospects of low - income children and their families.
It's a district school in a Rust - Belt city plagued by the all - too familiar problems of generational poverty: families torn apart by drug addiction, homelessness, and irregular employment.
Charter Chains and legislators disregard the fact that struggling D or F schools face the deep effects of generational poverty that requires greater investment and support not «failure» labels and ridicule.
«I believe all students deserve a quality education that will ensure a quality life, starting with having the foundation needed for college and career readiness; I believe this work plays an integral role in ending cycles of generational poverty; and I believe the time to close the education inequality gap is now.»
As one principal stated, «Our ultimate goal is that our economically disadvantaged children will break the cycle of generational poverty.
Jacob Allen and Marie Dandie are co-founders of pilotED, an emerging school network that will offer Indianapolis public school students a rigorous liberal arts curriculum focused on identity and sociology to interrupt cycles of generational poverty.
President Barack Obama launched the Promise Neighborhoods initiative to recreate our holistic approach to break the cycle of generational poverty, and hundreds of other municipalities have visited us to learn how to establish similar programs.
Not far from Tikal, in garbage dumps across the country, are the descendants of the Mayan kings who built these pyramids, young boys and girls working 12 hours a day to salvage recyclables that will pay for a meal, that will allow them to survive for another day, that will do nothing to break them out of the cycle of generational poverty.
The program works to educate 4,000 orphaned and abandoned children so they can break the vicious cycle of generational poverty.
We exist to love and care for orphans and impoverished children, by meeting their physical, spiritual, educational, social and emotional needs that they might overcome their life circumstances and break free from the cycle of generational poverty.
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