Sentences with phrase «poor children access»

Advocates hope it would give poor children access to better schools and critics fear it would dilute funds available to the nation's neediest schools.

The results bear on the question of how early - childhood educational interventions can help poor children access the same educational concepts that more privileged children have before entering primary school.

I think he's close to ditching the nighttime diaper as well, provided we just give the poor child access to a toilet.

Not exact matches

The child tax credit will grow from $ 1,000 to $ 2,000; only the first 1,400 will be refundable, and access for poor families is not significantly expanded.

He underlined the need to improve access to mental health support for people in the poorest places of the world and shared how he had witnessed first - hand, some of the challenges faced by children with disabilities on a trip to East Africa.

A poor women without a job, without money for a bus fare, without clothes for a job interview, without the possibility of obtaining childcare, without a steady roof over her head, without access to sterilising equipment or even the ability to readily boil water, can still (in the majority of cases) breastfeed her child.

But when poor women, without access to first - rate child care, choose to stay home with their babies, we tend to call them lazy welfare mothers.

Poorer children are faced with numerous reminders that their peers have access to things that they do not, I'm not sure the answer is to remove the a la carte option based only on that reason.

1.35 million people in developing countries, most of them children, die every year from diarrhoeal diseases associated with lack of access to safe drinking water, inadequate sanitation, poor hygiene and overcrowding.

Aware that it may be a child's only access to decent food, poor districts frequently try to go the extra mile, serving meals all year and making sure no kid goes without.

Children growing up in disadvantaged circumstances — in cold and damp homes, with little access to green space for play and recreation and parents struggling to make ends meet — are more likely to experience poor health now and into adulthood.

The LEAP programme is cash transfer being implemented by the Department of Social Welfare under the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection (MOGCSP), aimed at reducing poverty by increasing consumption and promoting access to services and opportunities among the extreme poor and vulnerable households, elderly persons 65 years and above without any support and severely disabled persons without any productive capacity and recently, the extremely poor pregnant women and children under 2 yeChildren and Social Protection (MOGCSP), aimed at reducing poverty by increasing consumption and promoting access to services and opportunities among the extreme poor and vulnerable households, elderly persons 65 years and above without any support and severely disabled persons without any productive capacity and recently, the extremely poor pregnant women and children under 2 yechildren under 2 years old.

Downing Street said Mr Hughes — who abstained in the Commons vote on raising tuition fees — agreed to take up the unpaid role as an «access advocate» to persuade parents and children from poor backgrounds they will be able to afford a university education when the new fees come into effect.

In a population - based Canadian study of children with epilepsy, each of whom had access to universal health care, those from poor families had the same medical course and remission rate as their wealthier counterparts, but they had a less favorable social outcome as adults.

This same lack of health care access makes poor children who are under - vaccinated potentially more vulnerable to health risks as rates of vaccine - preventable diseases continue to rise.

A rapid voluntary reduction in fertility rates in the poor countries, brought about by more access to family planning, higher child survival and education for girls, could stabilize the population at around eight billion by 2050.

In Afghanistan and Pakistan today the Taliban have created thousands of madrassas, where children from poor families with no access to education can receive food and what passes for learning (but what is in fact quite the opposite).

Shalat says that poor children are both most likely to be exposed to lead — from factory smelters, dust, soil and paint — and to suffer the worst effects of that exposure, thanks to poor access to health care and other resources such as proper nutrition and high - quality schools.

This year, the annual event will be raising money for Concern Worldwide (concern.net @Concern), an international humanitarian organization transforming the lives of the world's poorest, most marginalized children through access to education.

Intended to help schools address the attainment gap amongst children from low income families, some of this funding could be used to address the digital divide and ensure pupils who have poor home access are equipped with the resources they need.

Mark Woodruff, Executive of The JJ Charitable Trust says: «Literacy is one of The JJ Charitable Trust's main concerns and for years we have worked with charities to prevent and overcome poor access to literacy that too often sees children and young people fall prey to low educational attainment, low employment chances and even homelessness and prison.

«The fact that poor families have unequal access to child - care must be addressed by...

Youngsters who grow up in poor neighborhoods don't have access to the same resources as children in more affluent communities.

Housed in the Department of Health and Human Services, Head Start has in the past emphasized not just early education but also socialization and giving poor children and their families access to an array of nutritional, health, and social services.

It also found that most parents of disabled children thought that poor attitudes from other parents was a key barrier to accessing mainstream play.

Preventing deadly diseases among poor children by expanding access to vaccines, and developing vaccines against malaria, HIV / AIDS, and tuberculosis, are central priorities.

Howard Fuller's memoir, written with Lisa Frazier Page, chronicles his journey from political activist to school superintendent and back again, revealing along the way the monumental challenge of ensuring that poor black children have access to a high - quality education.

This California - centric volume contends that many middle - class families live under the illusion that their kids» schools are swell and that it's only poor families whose children are trapped in bad schools and therefore need charters, vouchers, open enrollment plans, and other policies and programs designed to afford them access to better options.

Milburn highlighted that at the current rates of progression it would take 30 years to halve the educational attainment gap between poorer children and their better - off classmates, and over 50 years before the gap in access to university is closed between the areas with the lowest and highest participation rates.

«Federal efforts to equalize child - care access have helped poor women and their children, although more remains to be done.

As a result, it has been suggested that wealthy families who use private tutors for this purpose should be taxed in order to help poorer children have access to the same help.

School districts can access Concentration Grants in addition to their Basic Grant funding if at least 15 percent of children who reside within the district are poor, or if there are at least 6,500 poor children.

He estimates that 12,000 children in poor neighborhoods still lack any access to a public pre-K program.

Instead of pouncing on Mr. Bush, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio might explain to voters why Barack Obama has spent his entire presidency trying to shut down a school voucher program in Washington, D.C., that gives poor black and brown children access to private schools and, according to the Education Department's own evaluation, improves their chances of graduating by as much as 21 percentage points.

Instead, she posits that «buying» poor children classroom access to their higher income peers and the political capital of their peers» parents is the likely reason for the success of universal preschool.

In a city dogged by educational shortcomings for its poor children of color, the LA Unified board seems to be letting political grandstanding come before giving more of its neediest children access into a proven foothold of educational equity.

Just as Trump's flunkies exert political pressure to halt access to healthcare (or immigration or policies to address climate change), so NJEA exerts political pressure — as well as its deep pockets — to stave off the continued enrollment of children, mostly poor and of color, in high - quality alternative public schools.

A criticism of the programme so far has been the omission of any Opportunity Areas in the North East — a part of Britain with poor attainment and progress, particularly for the most disadvantaged children, and sparse access to high quality schools.

A controversial lottery system for secondary school places in Brighton failed in one of its key aims, to give poorer children equal access to top schools, academics say.

The U.N's Sustainable Development Goal 4 — focused on educational quality — represents an opportunity to get quality education right — to ensure that all children, especially in the world's poorest places, have access to a «qualified» teacher — not just an adult who happens to know how to read and write.

This also means expanding opportunities for high - quality education — from greater access to Advanced Placement courses to the expansion of high - quality charter schools — so that children from poor and minority households, especially young black men and women who did the worst on NAEP this year (and have less access to college - preparatory courses in traditional districts) can succeed in school and in life.

«Digital skills are an enabler across the curriculum, but there are real issues of access for poorer children,» she said.

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.

We need to devise ways of responding and coping with the inequities the division of computer access will be between poor children and the middle and upper class children.

Without access to transport poor children have little chance to take up opportunities to get training and jobs so are unable to escape the poverty in which they grow up.

We did not create this movement to give people an opportunity to create citadels of privilege for their children and deny access to poor kids or kids of color.

In an effort to explain the decline, State Superintendent White has raised the question of whether the shift to computer - based testing in the most recent NAEP assessment could have negatively impacted scores, especially in poorer states like Louisiana where many children have limited access to technology.

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.

The follow chart shows, yet again, that charter schools cream off the children that are less poor and they provide very limited access to Latino students, especially those who go home to families where English is not the primary language.

The report argues that as a particularly low - achieving group, poor white children would have the most to gain from access to outstanding schools and the best teachers.