Sentences with phrase «other lower income children»

The tactics are «part of a politically and racially - motivated scheme to prevent minorities and other lower income children from attending PS 24 and other schools in the area,» the suit states.

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Across the country, other states have been experimenting with similar programs to keep low - income working parents from falling off the child care cliff, in keeping with the recommendations in the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act passed in child care cliff, in keeping with the recommendations in the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act passed in Child Care and Development Block Grant Act passed in 2014.

The larger standard deduction, the unspecified larger child tax credit, and «additional tax relief» to be named later will protect «typical» low - income families from a tax hike, we are told, but others will see their bills actually climb.

Yet low income lines and family income tested programs such as the Guaranteed Income Supplement and child tax benefits do assume couples share income with each income lines and family income tested programs such as the Guaranteed Income Supplement and child tax benefits do assume couples share income with each income tested programs such as the Guaranteed Income Supplement and child tax benefits do assume couples share income with each Income Supplement and child tax benefits do assume couples share income with each income with each other.

It means looking at the complete tax system (the rate structure, the child care expense deduction, the working income supplement, the child tax benefit, among others) and how it penalizes low - and middle - income families with high punitive marginal tax rates.

Bishop of Gloucester, Rt Rev Rachel Treweek (above), said: «We have heard a lot about how earnings are not keeping up with inflation, but there is an urgency to recognise that low income working families are taking a double hit due to the four - year freeze in child tax credits and other benefits.

Another part of the answer has to do with early cognitive stimulation: Affluent parents typically provide more books and educational toys to their kids in early childhood; low - income parents are less likely to live in neighborhoods with good libraries and museums and other enrichment opportunities, and they're less likely to use a wide and varied vocabulary when speaking to their infants and children.

Well - off kids have on average more access to books and other printed materials; just as important, their parents speak to them more than low - income parents speak to their children — by some estimates, far more — and the speech they use is more complex.

They partner with other organizations to increase access to quality early childhood education for low - income children, address the impact of childhood traumas and enhance parental engagement with at - risk children's social and emotional learning.

HFA is designed for parents facing challenges such as single parenthood; low income; childhood history of abuse and other adverse child experiences; and current or previous issues related to substance abuse, mental health issues, and / or domestic violence.

Though statistics show that more black children are in single - parent homes than other groups, new research notes that their fathers — often young, low - income, unmarried African - American men — are more involved than one might conclude, despite comments from prominent black men such as Bill Cosby and Sen. Barack Obama.

In other words, even when home visitation programs succeed in their goal of changing parent behaviour, these changes do not appear to produce significantly better child outcomes.21, 22 One recent exception, however, was a study of the Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) model with low - income Latino families showing changes in home parenting and better third - grade math achievement.23 Earlier evaluations of HIPPY found mixed results regarding program effectiveness.

1989 FRAC releases Feeding the Other Half, documenting the serious consequences of inadequate nutrition for low - income women, infants, and children eligible for, but not served by, WIC.

The work in children's centres is targeted to reach families who are facing difficulties such as unemployment or low income, domestic violence, mental health, families with children with special needs or any other barrier.

This week - long campaign (June 6 — 10) aims to raise awareness about the risk of hunger low - income children face during the summer months and the benefits of summer food and other programs that can make sure children have access to nutritious food year round.

VAT rate: 17.5 % Income spent on VATable goods: (1240 /.0175) # 7085 Income spent on non-VATable goods: # 8820 - # 7085 = # 1735 So the average person in the lowest income decile spends a * combined total * of # 144 a month on rent, food, clothes for their children, and other direct and indirect Income spent on VATable goods: (1240 /.0175) # 7085 Income spent on non-VATable goods: # 8820 - # 7085 = # 1735 So the average person in the lowest income decile spends a * combined total * of # 144 a month on rent, food, clothes for their children, and other direct and indirect Income spent on non-VATable goods: # 8820 - # 7085 = # 1735 So the average person in the lowest income decile spends a * combined total * of # 144 a month on rent, food, clothes for their children, and other direct and indirect income decile spends a * combined total * of # 144 a month on rent, food, clothes for their children, and other direct and indirect taxes?

The Government must give better and fuller guidance to tax credit and other benefit claimants about the circumstances in which they may still claim the child element of child tax credit or universal credit for a third or subsequent child born on or after 6 April 2017, says the Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG).1 Previously announced changes to tax credits, universal credit and some other benefits which limit payment of the child element to no more than two children come into effect today (6 April).

Rep. Rahm Emanuel (Ill.), chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, said if the president were serious about enrolling the lowest - income children, the administration would allow states to sign up youngsters for SCHIP when they qualify for school - lunch and other federal programs.

In New York, 840,000 children are lifted above the poverty line each year by safety net programs; 597,000 residents were lifted out of poverty by the earned income tax credit and child tax credit from 2011 — 2013; 576,000 low - income households rely on federal rental assistance; 2,968,000 residents received SNAP in FY 2016; and hundreds of thousands more rely on investments in job training, education, and other social services.

UFT Family Child Care Providers Chapter Chair Tammie Miller joined Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and other elected officials and labor leaders for a Manhattan town hall meeting on May 25 to discuss the impact of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's proposed $ 51 million cut to child care funding on children and low - iChild Care Providers Chapter Chair Tammie Miller joined Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and other elected officials and labor leaders for a Manhattan town hall meeting on May 25 to discuss the impact of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's proposed $ 51 million cut to child care funding on children and low - ichild care funding on children and low - income

UFT Family Child Care Providers Chapter Chair Tammie Miller joined Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and other elected officials and labor leaders for a Manhattan town hall meeting on May 25 to discuss the impact of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's proposed $ 51 million cut to child care funding on children and low - income working parChild Care Providers Chapter Chair Tammie Miller joined Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and other elected officials and labor leaders for a Manhattan town hall meeting on May 25 to discuss the impact of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's proposed $ 51 million cut to child care funding on children and low - income working parchild care funding on children and low - income working parents.

«Evidence on the coverage of postnatal care services and other maternal and child health services is crucial to inform policies and health systems decisions addressing unmet needs in low - and middle - income countries,» Langlois explained.

In addition, scientists suspect that the stress of living in low - income areas with high rates of crime and other stressors may make children more vulnerable to the effects of pollutants, perhaps by altering their hormones and immune systems.

On the other hand, children from families with lower incomes and with less educated parents tend to be under - vaccinated because they lack access to resources.

She notes that the disparity between this and other research may have been this study's screening process, which excluded a higher percentage of low - income children than middle - and high - income children.

The findings likely come at a crucial time in examining income inequality because Harvard researcher Robert Putnam and others have found it is much more difficult today than it was 50 years ago for children of low socioeconomic status to advance up the ladder.

Looking to explain why income matters, they found evidence in support of two central theories, one relating to parents» ability to invest in goods and services that further child development, and the other relating to the stress and anxiety parents suffer caused by low income.

Researchers found that Medicaid exposure increased hospital usage by low - income children four percent during early childhood and that Medicaid's introduction is associated with a decrease in medical debt in households that have children, freeing up resources that could be invested in kids in other ways.

Nevertheless, there remains a disparity in access to mobile devices and other technology for low - income children.

He also reviews the 46 - year - old Head Start program, which provides education and other services to 1 million low - income U.S. children and their families (p. 956), and interviews Joan Lombardi (p. 957), who leads the Obama Administration's efforts to coordinate health and education programs for young children in the United States.

Overall, studies in the field indicate that children from low - income families tend to show the most gains from social emotional learning interventions, but results for other groups of students are more mixed, although a number of studies show positive effects.

Based on these statements, we can categorize the schools roughly into five groups: those that have a child - centered or progressive educational philosophy and typically seek to develop students» love of learning, respect for others, and creativity (29 percent of students); those with a general or traditional educational mission and a focus on students» core skills (28 percent of students); those with a rigorous academic emphasis, which have mission statements that focus almost exclusively on academic goals such as excelling in school and going to college (25 percent of students); those that target a particular population of students, such as low - income students, special needs students, likely dropouts, male students, and female students (11 percent of students); and those in which a certain aspect of the curriculum, such as science or the arts, is paramount (7 percent of students).

Massachusetts's progressive school - finance system, the product of reforms made in 1993, begins by establishing a minimum per - pupil spending figure - the foundation budget - that accords low - income children a premium of about 42 percent over that allotted other children.

First, she said the decision «removes barriers to the implementation of other financial means of supporting parents who want to send their children to nonpublic schools, such as education tax credits or direct grants to low - income families.»

The other sticking point — funding for sectarian, non-public schools — was circumvented through the creation of Title I, «Education of Children of Low Income Families.»

But development is a very complex thing, she says, and she and Mancilla - Martinez have demonstrated in their research that there is immense variability among children from lowincome backgrounds, that risk factors can be balanced out by other strengths, and teachers should always be aware that low - income children are not destined to fail academically.

When state law essentially guarantees public employment for ineffective teachers in California, low - income families pay one way or another — either in the form of salary incentives to retain and redistribute effective teachers, reductions in other services required to pay for those salary incentives, or because such policies usually fail to completely offset the burden, in terms of the lowered achievement of their children.

My own and other studies show that children from low - income families enter kindergarten a year to a year and a half, on average, behind middle - class children in their language and many other cognitive skills.This is a gigantic lag considering that they are only five to six years old.

If it is possible to meet the needs of special education students at a public school serving low - income children in the Bronx, it can be done at other public schools and at charter schools, too.

Another objective is for the garden to be a vehicle to teach children about a broad range of sustainability issues, and other popular objectives cover the benefits of «growing your own food» for low income families or to allow special needs students to enjoy outdoor activities and sensory stimulation.

The suit, filed on behalf of Beatriz Vergara, a Los Angeles high school student, and eight other public school students, claims that the law protects poor - performing teachers assigned to working with low - income, minority children.

The TVPK is a current, scaled - up, state - funded pre-K program in Tennessee that is offered to four - year - olds from low - income families and other high risk children in that age group.

Writing about Illinois» newly approved NCLB waiver, it breathlessly reported that, «Under a dramatic new approach to rating public schools, Illinois students of different backgrounds no longer will be held to the same standards — with Latinos and blacks, low - income children and other groups having lower targets than whites for passing state exams, the Tribune has found.»

The first cohort, now old enough to participate in third - grade testing, scored higher than did other low - income children who did not receive public pre-K.

This is particularly important for low - income students, who tend to learn most content in school and, unlike affluent children of college - educated parents, generally do not get to benefit from trips to museums, story times at the library, and other opportunities.

Hillary for America senior policy adviser Maya Harris said the «proposal could strip funding from up to 56,000 public schools serving more than 21 million children» and it «might only serve 1.4 million students, while stripping funding from the other 10.5 million low - income students in America.»

The manual, entitled «How to Talk About Teacher Strikes,» has «dos and do nt's,» including the claims, «Teacher strikes hurt kids and low - income families,» and, «It's unfortunate that teachers are protesting low wages by punishing other low - wage parents and their children.»

He points to research he and others have done showing that children from low - income families are the ones who derive the most benefit from public pre-K.

The disparity results, in part, from the fact that many low - income children don't attend pre-school; low - income parents speak to their children about one - third as much as parents who are professionals; low - income parents read to their children much less than do other parents; and low - income children watch much more television than do their peers.

Reimers» work focuses on the role of educational innovation in fostering global competency and other 21st century skills and in identifying options that support teachers in helping low - income children succeed academically.