Sentences with phrase «plight of poor children»

We will never close the achievement gap until we close the opportunity gap... While giving considerable lip service to the plight of poor children and children of color, we have not backed - up our rhetoric with our actions... The 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act (of which NCLB and ESSA are the latest versions) has always been intended to address these disparities, but it has never been adequately funded.»

It might make her skeptical of the notion that the richest people in the United States (the backers of charter schools) are suddenly taken with the educational plight of poor children for purely altruistic reasons.

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He spoke out on the Irish question, opposed military adventures of imperial Britain, and cared deeply about the plight of the urban poor, especially neglected and mistreated children.

But her attack on a proposed expansion of the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship suffers not only from a lack of sensitivity to the plight of desperately poor parents, mostly of color, who have their children on waiting lists.

It also gave the movement a populist patina, making it seem that if you were concerned about the plight of poor inner - city children, you would certainly support the creation of many more charter schools.

Some see Wilkinsburg's plight as evidence of a broken school funding system that shortchanges children from poor families, while others see it as an argument for investing in charter schools instead of trying to turn around dysfunctional school systems.

The return to New York, where Minuchin's career had started in institutional settings for marginalized children, also renewed his commitment to searching for ways to alleviate the plight of poor urban families caught in the net of well - intended but unwittingly disempowering services.