Sentences with phrase «of poor children served»

«The School Breakfast Scorecard: 2000,» an annual report released by the Washington - based Food Research and Action Center, found that more than 71,000 schools offered the subsidized breakfasts and that the average number of poor children served daily rose to 6.3 million in 2000, almost double the 3.4 million served in 1990.

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World Vision subscribes to the humanitarian principles of impartiality and neutrality and therefore rejects any involvement in any political, military or terrorist activities and maintains its independence as a humanitarian aid agency committed to serving the poor, especially children.

Obama, like much of Academia, is divergent from reality and therefore the rube like businessman is the best choice for an economy that will better serve the poor and children of a lesser god.

It serves well over 100 children, many of them poor.

VanHagar wrote on Wdenesday, May 2, 2012 at 7:47 pm, stating, «It was in faith in God that gave us the Salvation Army, Abused Children «s Fund, Freedom 424 (serving victims of s.ex trafficking), Bright Hope International (working with the poor), Children «s Christian Lifeline Hunger and Medical Relief, Christian World Relief, Five Talents - USA, Inc., Habitat for Humanity International, Living Water International (providing clean water), etc. etc. and hundreds (if not thousands) of other faith - based charities help the poor and disenfranchised.

It was in faith in God that gave us the Salvation Army, Abused Children «s Fund, Freedom 424 (serving victims of s.ex trafficking), Bright Hope International (working with the poor), Children «s Christian Lifeline Hunger and Medical Relief, Christian World Relief, Five Talents - USA, Inc., Habitat for Humanity International, Living Water International (providing clean water), etc. etc. and hundreds (if not thousands) of other faith - based charities help the poor and disenfranchised.

The witness also spoke of the order's «ingrained» values, in particular of serving the poor, and said: «There is a hugely long tradition around formation around how to behave with dignity and respect around children.

Another key component of the legislation would require elementary schools to serve free breakfast in the classroom in schools with moderate or high concentrations of poor children.

Beyond the meals themselves, Congress must also address poor regulation and oversight of the food served to our children.

«It also means that in one of the poorest cities in the state, children are dramatically under - served.»

In the middle of the last decade, in urban communities across America, middle - class and upper - middle - class parents started sending their children to public schools again — schools that for decades had overwhelmingly served poor and (and overwhelmingly minority) populations.

It's no secret that «regular» schools serving predominantly poor children, who face overwhelming challenges that affluent children never have to confront, have more than their share of behavior problems.

He is the co-founder of Educar y Crecer (EyC), an initiative that offers remedial education in math and reading to children in slums in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and of Enseñá por Argentina (EpA), an effort to recruit the country's best and brightest college graduates to teach in schools serving the poor for at least two years.

Piney Branch Elementary serves an incredibly diverse group of 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders, from the children of übereducated white and black middle - class families, to poor immigrant children from Latin America, Ethiopia, and Eritrea, to low - income African American kids.

Community health centers that serve millions of poor children are facing shortages of vaccines against common childhood diseases such as measles, mumps, and rubella, a new report by the Children's Defense Fund cochildren are facing shortages of vaccines against common childhood diseases such as measles, mumps, and rubella, a new report by the Children's Defense Fund coChildren's Defense Fund concludes.

The report said: «In the context of creating a fairly funded system, government should also consider the external effects that may combine to compound the effects on pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds, including place poverty (living in neighbourhoods with high proportions of poor children, attending schools serving higher proportions of disadvantaged pupils) gender and ethnicity.»

One of the primary goals of the Baltimore - based Abell Foundation, where I am a senior policy analyst, is to improve the public schools that serve poor children.

«In mapping the education journey of children at schools serving low income communities or those from poor families, a school pattern emerges.

A House subcommittee approved a Republican welfare - reform bill last week that would give states most of the responsibility for administering aid programs serving millions of poor children and their families.

«The challenged statutes do not inevitably lead to the assignment of more inexperienced teachers to schools serving poor and minority children,» said Boren, who received his judicial appointments from Republican Govs. George Deukmejian and Pete Wilson.

For generations, Catholic schools educated countless poor children; chartering was created to allow a wide variety of non-profit groups to run excellent schools, frequently serving children in need.

«If we believe that education is the way out of poverty, then we need to stop making the schools that serve the poorer children the most impoverished schools.

«The challenged statutes do not inevitably lead to the assignment of more inexperienced teachers to schools serving poor and minority children,» Presiding Justice Roger Boren said in the 3 - 0 ruling.

This need for cultures that reaffirm the self - worth of poor and minority children (and ultimately, allow for them and their communities gain the knowledge needed to determine their own destinies) is why historically black colleges and universities, along with other minority - serving higher ed institutions, still exist.

Philanthropic foundations that support education causes are interested in serving as many poor and minority children as possible; when 30 % to 40 % of a student body is made up of white or affluent students, the school is deemed suspect, as reform - minded foundations see such programs as «wasting» a third of their seats.

I'd love to see charter associations ask OCR to investigate states that don't do enough to provide equitable funding to charter schools serving high proportions of poor and minority children.

I'd love to see charter associations throughout the country file complaints with OCR, asking it to investigate states that don't do enough to provide equitable funding to charter schools serving high proportions of poor and minority children.

In a push to provide more children with free tutoring under the No Child Left Behind Act, the Department of Education is expanding two pilot programs that allow school districts to offer the extra assistance a year earlier than usual, and to serve as tutoring providers even if they themselves have been deemed poor performers.

Under the proposed rules, teacher colleges will be motivated to steer their graduates away from school districts and schools that report low student achievement test scores, i.e., those serving poor and minority children and new learners of English.

The colleges with greater numbers of graduates who serve the poorest children in their state will be punished the most.

These three recent national reports highlight the importance of and need for additional research on schools that serve the needs of poor children by increasing their achievement and, hence, their educational opportunities.

Carrie Tulbert, principal of Concord Middle School in Cabarrus County and North Carolina's principal of the year in 2014 - 2015, has intimate experience serving a school dominated by the children of poor families.

Some of the biggest axes would fall on a $ 2.3 billion program for teacher training and class - size reduction, and a $ 1.2 billion after - school program, which serves nearly 2 million children, many of them poor.

Gone, for example, would be $ 1.2 billion for after school programs that serve 1.6 million children, most of whom are poor, and $ 2.1 billion for teacher training and class - size reduction.

The Sutton Trust report, Background to Success, said: «In the context of creating a fairly funded system, government should also consider the external effects that may combine to compound the effects on pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds, including place poverty (living in neighbourhoods with high proportions of poor children, attending schools serving higher proportions of disadvantaged pupils) gender and ethnicity.»

Just because kids are poor, doesn't mean they aren't smart and these brightest children are bored out of their minds by the non-stop test prep that serves «data - driven instruction» but fails to actually teach smart kids anything.

As Dropout Nation has pointed out ad nauseam since the administration unveiled the No Child waiver gambit two years ago, the plan to let states to focus on just the worst five percent of schools (along with another 10 percent or more of schools with wide achievement gaps) effectively allowed districts not under watch (including suburban districts whose failures in serving poor and minority kids was exposed by No Child) off the hook for serving up mediocre instruction and curricula.

In the Clifton - Fine school district, only 25 % of the children are poor, but 100 % of their 4 year olds are served in the public schools.

TFA, suitably representative of the liberal education reform more generally, underwrites, intentionally or not, the conservative assumptions of the education reform movement: that teacher's unions serve as barriers to quality education; that testing is the best way to assess quality education; that educating poor children is best done by institutionalizing them; that meritocracy is an end - in - itself; that social class is an unimportant variable in education reform; that education policy is best made by evading politics proper; and that faith in public school teachers is misplaced.

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 National Coalition for Public Education — which includes 50 organizations, including the Children's Defense Fund and the National Urban League — has also written that portability would expand the amount of students served through Title I and result in the poorest districts getting less of overall Title I dollars.

Finally, Dr. Jeff Duncan - Andrade, professor of Raza Studies at San Francisco State University and a high school teacher in East Oakland, California, closed the day with a moving talk on critical pedagogy in urban settings in which he shared his own experiences and strategies for effective teaching in schools serving poor and working - class children.

Most urban Catholic schools were originally built to educate the children of European immigrants; today, they mostly serve poor African American and Latino students.

At Taylor, which serves a prekindergarten through eighth - grade population of mostly low - income African - American students, educators are celebrating victories in improving attendance (it rose to 94.5 percent among poor children last year from 93.6 percent in 2008) and reducing asthma.

But we still serve only a fraction of the poor children eligible to enroll because that is not enough money to pay enough people to serve all of the children living in poverty in America.

Even the Advantage school in Rocky Mount, N.C., that Mayor Schundler says is so well equipped to serve Jersey City's poor, is skimming; 38 percent of its children qualify for free lunches versus 49 percent for Rocky Mount elementary schools.

«It will be very difficult for Democrats to make the case that they are on the side of civil rights and social justice if they are defending unconstitutional laws that objectively harm poor kids and children of color,» said Austin, who serves on the board of Students Matter, the organization that brought the lawsuit.

Sir Michael Wilshaw says England's poorest children are especially badly served, as only a third reach a good level of development in pre-schools.

The result is a near wholesale abandonment of the public schools, especially those that serve poor children.

Due to the requirement under the federal No Child Left Behind Act that each state's Title I plan must describe «the specific steps that the state education agency will take to ensure that poor and minority children are not taught at higher rates than other children by inexperienced, unqualified, or out - of - field teachers and the measures that the state education agency will use to evaluate and publicly report the progress,» TEA formed a stakeholder group, upon which TCTA served, to develop its State Educator Equity Plan.