Sentences with phrase «poor and minority children»

That skepticism should grow after looking closely at the individual state targets set for districts and schools to improve student achievement, especially for poor and minority children.

They point out that charters tend to have a higher percentage of poor and minority children than most American schools, and in a sense they are right.

It places poor and minority children in settings designed to provide developmental support and at least some intellectually stimulating activities.

This is particularly true in states where most charters serve poor and minority children.

Rather, the focus — then as now — was simply on figuring out how to help poor and minority children learn to read.

An issue made clear again earlier this week when her priorities list was revealed, none of which mentioned doing right by poor and minority children.

Notably, the report also showed that poor and minority children living in these areas were even less likely to have access to broadband.

Poor and minority children also come to school with rich backgrounds.

The data once again serves as a reminder that educational malpractice borne upon poor and minority children visit their better - off peers in the form of academic neglect.

Religious schools, it is charged, deny opportunities to poor and minority children while failing to provide an adequate education to those pupils unfortunate enough to attend them.

As demonstrated by four decades of research, it is exceptionally difficult for schools to erase the deficits poor and minority children have accumulated by the time they start school at age five.

Certainly this means losing key tools in expanding choice, especially against traditional districts and others opposed to allowing poor and minority children to attain high - quality options.

But others, including many in the civil rights movement, defend standardized testing as crucial for ensuring that public schools serve all students, including poor and minority children.

What future do we anticipate poor and minority children will have with these academic outcomes?

At the very least, therefore, schools for poor and minority children should have as much funding per student, as many qualified teachers and as good physical facilities as other schools.

Every state should determine how much high - quality education costs and guarantee that every school — especially those serving poor and minority children — has at least that much money.

• Show that public charter schools could benefit the students most in need of new opportunities (poor and minority children in big cities).

This would also require them to admit that their «social compact» is little more than a step back to the bad old days before No Child's passage, when states, districts, teachers, and school leaders were allowed to ignore the needs of poor and minority children with impunity.

Bush had made «accountability» a cornerstone of his education platform, using his stated goal of ensuring equity for poor and minority children as a way of bolstering his credentials as a moderate.

Less than a mile away, P.S. 307 serves the mostly poor and minority children who live in a large public housing project.

A study of 49 states by The Education Trust found that school districts with high numbers of low - income and minority students receive substantially less state and local money per pupil than school districts with few poor and minority children.

«Most critically, schools that serve poor and minority children need more financial assistance.

But the near - unanimous vote by the conference committee in favor of the deal belied growing anxiety on the left, with civil rights advocates and education reformers becoming increasingly nervous they had spent close to a year working on an education bill that will ultimately harm poor and minority children.

As with the consequences of failing and mediocre traditional districts, the consequences of abusive criminal justice systems are borne hardest by the communities in which poor and minority children live.

Around this time last year, Dropout Nation applauded Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder's effort to expand the state's inter-district choice program — and end the practices of Zip Code Education that condemn poor and minority children to dropout factories — by requiring every district to open their doors to any student anywhere.

«We also know that it disproportionally affects poor and minority children, and children in immigrant families.»

To do otherwise essentially makes Washington the enabler in a terribly dysfunctional relationship that victimizes poor and minority children.

Retention opponents like Don Moore, executive director of the education reform organization Designs for Change, frequently criticized the policy for being a misuse of standardized test scores that simply overidentified poor and minority children for retention.

The idea for Head Start, a preschool program for disadvantaged children, emerged from the observation that, on average, poor and minority children arrive at school already behind their peers in the intellectual skills and abilities required for academic achievement.

One wonders if those who brought this suit are willing to press their equality claims to their logical conclusions and challenge the vast array of inequalities poor and minority children might experience in public school systems.

Poor and minority children bring just as many problems to schools here as they do in New Zealand, especially when poverty is concentrated.

This includes 20,000 teachers, including some 1,000 teachers working in traditional public and public charter schools thanks to Teach for America, who are helping poor and minority children gain the knowledge they need for lifelong success.

Losing children, particularly poor and minority children, from our school systems before high school graduation has been and is today a defining feature of education in the United States.

Last month, the administration scrambled to get Virginia to scrap its low expectations for poor and minority children amid outcry from reformers and civil rights activists over the Old Dominion's move to approve AMO targets that only require districts to ensure that 57 percent of black students (and 65 percent of Latino peers) are proficient in math by 2016 - 2017; those targets were blessed by the administration back in June as part of its approval of the state's waiver proposal.

And it is important to remind some Beltway reformers that focusing on poor and minority children will not only help all kids, but can even win suppoet from middle class blacks and Latinos, who will make up the majority of all Americans by mid-century.

To overcome the achievement gap that still exists between poor and minority children and their more affluent peers, we must stay true to the law's core tenet — that all students, regardless of income, race, ethnicity or disability should have access to a quality education that prepares them for success in college and a career,» he said.

The U.S. Department of Education is contemplating issuing new rules that could prod states to ensure that poor and minority children get access to as many high - quality teachers as their more - advantaged peers.

While we appreciate any support we can get to fix a broken state funding system that penalizes poor and minority children in Chicago and around the state, we hope that Randi's support lasts beyond a 24 - hour news cycle.»

Both unions are defendants in the Vergara lawsuit, which claims laws regarding teacher tenure, firing and layoffs disproportionately hurt poor and minority children, saddling them with the state's worst - performing teachers.

A nationally and internationally recognized expert in parent involvement, home, school, community partnerships, multicultural literacy, early literacy, and family / intergenerational literacy, especially among poor and minority children.

Meanwhile Trump's ascent into the White House bodes ill for one of the Obama Administration's most - admirable efforts: Holding districts accountable for overusing out - of - school suspensions and other harsh school discipline that put poor and minority children onto the school - to - prison pipeline, an important issue both on the education and criminal justice reform fronts.