Sentences with phrase «poor children for school»

Begun in 1965, the U.S. Head Start program is still trying to find the best way to prepare poor children for school.

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Her family was so poor that, as a child, Oprah was teased at school for wearing dresses made of potato sacks.

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.

In fact, we already do that in a number of areas — Pell grants for poor college students, child care to the parent, not a religious institution, and the parent freely chooses a school that is secular, Buddhist, Baptist and so on.

As I go to court with poor immigrants, visit their children in schools and translate for them in job interviews, I am always stmck by how much social capital I have by simply being able to speak English well and to work as a professional in the community.

Furthermore one can not invest in stocks and at the same fund a school for poor children.

Frank Riessman, The Culturally Deprived Child [New York: Harper, 1962]-RRB- This is why middle - class talk therapies are inadequate and why the poor may not do well in middle - class - oriented school systems which emphasize verbal skills, abstract reasoning, and knowledge for knowledge's sake.

Poor parents who have been enabled to choose any school for their children are delighted with the results, according to PAVE's annual report which is available free from Family Service America, 11700 West Lake Park Drive, Milwaukee, WI 53224.

Private schools, charter schools, voucher programs and other school choice options have been championed by reform - minded conservatives such as Jeb Bush for years now, partly because of their success for countless children of color living in poor communities with even poorer - performing public schools.

Waqfs were established to furnish trousseaux for orphan girls, for paying the debts of imprisoned or bankrupt businessmen, for clothing for the aged, to help pay village and neighborhood taxes, to help the army and the navy, to found trade guilds, to give land for public markets, to build lighthouses, to help orphans and widows and the destitute, to care for the needs of poor school children and to give them picnics, to pay for the funerals of the poor, to provide holiday gifts for poor families, to build seaside cottages for holidays for the people, to distribute ice - cold water during the summer, to create public playing fields, to distribute rice to birds, and to give food and water to animals.

The Sunday School was started to provide Christian nurture and knowledge of the Bible for poor children who lacked the advantages of middle - class family life.

In the space of time available to him, of course, Mr. Clinton could offer little more than a hasty outline of this proposal, but he did manage to make clear that what he was referring to was some sort of system whereby American high school (and, as it was to turn out, also college) graduates would exchange some years of service, either as policemen, environmental workers, or offerers of some form of assistance to poor children, in exchange for the government's subsequently paying their college tuition» a kind of GI Bill for non-GIs.

Even the Sunday School took its rise in a move to provide the elements of education for the working children of the poor on the only day they were free.

With the dollars which we waste for our egoism we could fund schools for poor children or hospitals for the poor or we could fund mission here and abroad.

In New York City, it is generously estimated that one out of ten poor children beginning first grade will graduate from high school prepared for a real college education --» real» meaning not majoring in «black studies» or some other pseudo-discipline, and not dropping out in the first or second year.

When poor children grow up in an environment marked by stable, responsive parenting; by schools that make them feel a sense of belonging and purpose; and by classroom teachers who challenge and support them, they thrive, and their opportunities for a successful life increase exponentially.

Researchers have found, in fact, that most of the achievement gap between well - off and poor children opens up before age five; for most children, the gap then stays pretty steady from kindergarten through the end of high school.

So that's two of three meals each day provided by a school, and if those meals are full of fat and cholesterol and low in vitamins and minerals, these children are not going to grow and develop properly and, even worse, it's setting them up for poor eating habits that will follow them around for the rest of their lives.

For example, if you didn't enjoy school as a child, you may trivialize or minimalize your child's poor school behavior.

I think it is important to point out that this isn't just an issue for middle class families who care deeply about their child's diet and are able to provide abundant healthy food choices but school menus have great impact on many, many poor children who, through no fault of their own and often with no agency to change the situation, end up being pawns in the lunch tray wars.

For one, you can watch for signs that your school is not meeting your child's needs, such as your tween having less interest in classwork or poorer gradFor one, you can watch for signs that your school is not meeting your child's needs, such as your tween having less interest in classwork or poorer gradfor signs that your school is not meeting your child's needs, such as your tween having less interest in classwork or poorer grades.

Fathers will undertake learning activities that they perceive will benefit their children through: ««a desire to build stronger relationships with their children ««a belief that helping their children to learn is important for their children's success (even when their own school experience was poor) ««a strong desire for their children to do better than they did (Fletcher, 1997).

Still, advocates for the poor remain alarmed that with the potential for stepped - up auditing, many children would be dropped from the school lunch program even if their families meet the eligibility requirements.

Poor decisions at school: I've worked with many parents whose kids get into trouble at school for the way they acted, but instead of letting their child face the music, they try to bail their kid out.

From the file of Rather Obvious News, this study from the University of Michigan Medical School: children who consume foods purchased from school vending machines, school stores, snack bars and other sales that compete with the federal school lunch program are «more likely to develop poor diet quality — and that may be associated with being overweight, obese or at risk for chronic health problems such as diabetes and coronary artery disease.&School: children who consume foods purchased from school vending machines, school stores, snack bars and other sales that compete with the federal school lunch program are «more likely to develop poor diet quality — and that may be associated with being overweight, obese or at risk for chronic health problems such as diabetes and coronary artery disease.&school vending machines, school stores, snack bars and other sales that compete with the federal school lunch program are «more likely to develop poor diet quality — and that may be associated with being overweight, obese or at risk for chronic health problems such as diabetes and coronary artery disease.&school stores, snack bars and other sales that compete with the federal school lunch program are «more likely to develop poor diet quality — and that may be associated with being overweight, obese or at risk for chronic health problems such as diabetes and coronary artery disease.&school lunch program are «more likely to develop poor diet quality — and that may be associated with being overweight, obese or at risk for chronic health problems such as diabetes and coronary artery disease.»

Alternately, the parent may blame the child for his poor school performance and believe the problem is the child's laziness or lack of effort.

Although this might be true in poorer schools among poorer children, this is not the case for the majority of students.

School meals can help children develop healthy eating habits — or they can prime them for a life of poor health and unnecessary suffering (did you hear about Paula Deen's statistically unsurprising diabetes diagnosis?).

Cooking real food for school children shouldn't have to be like the Peace Corps, where one takes a vow of poverty because the spiritual benefits of helping the poor make up for the lack of financial compensation.

In far too many school districts, there are students who would qualify for free meals, except for the fact that their family never fills out the form, either because they forget, or they don't understand that it is important, or (more often) the child is too embarrassed to self - identify as poor in front of his classmates, and so he either doesn't give his parents the form or doesn't turn it in at school.

Considering the fact that children with poor oral health are three times more likely to miss school due to dental pain, many moms choose to do whatever they can to set their kids up for success.

But numerous obstacles can prevent children from eating school meals: many students arrive at school too late to eat breakfast in the cafeteria, before the school day begins.; children may feel a stigma that school meals are just for «poor kids»; children may need to pay a co-payment for breakfast and lunch that their families can not afford.

School meals may be the most effective tool for combating obesity in poor children.

We must not forget now trainee journalist George Osborne's threat to wage further austerity on the poorest if the UK chose to leave the EU — nor our previous governments» ideological adherence to slashing any and all public services, whether the NHS, the fire service and community policing, or even free school meals for children.

Groups including the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, which successfully sued the state for more education funding, charge that Cuomo is ignoring a 2006 court order that said more money needed to be spent to educate the state's poorest school children.

One is an education tax credit that would give donors a tax break for funding scholarships to allow poor children to attend private schools, and also for money given to extra curricular programs at public schools.

The majority of NYC's public school students are poor; an astonishing 75 percent (780,000 children) were already eligible for free or reduced - price lunch.

Of course, free school meals for all infants will be of no help to the poorest children who already qualify for free school meals.

Cutting funds for schools and other related services will irretrievably harm children and young people, particularly the poorest ones.

We both want to give children from the poorest backgrounds increased funding, so there are greater incentives for the best schools to take them on.

But Kolb says he knows talks are going on about the top two remaining issues, renewing New York City's rent laws and an education tax credit for donors who give up to a million dollars to fund scholarships for poor children in private schools and fund afterschool activities at public schools.

He said the state has «condemned» 250,000 children — often poor and of color — to failing schools, and proposed a model for turning those schools around by handing them over to nonprofits or turnaround experts to create «community schools.»

Muba Yarofulani, 53, parent of public school children Aziza, 17, and Jelani, 12, agreed, adding that Black's appointment sets a poor example for children by telling them that they can be appointed jobs without becoming qualified.

«Cutting the roll out of universal free school meals, abolishing one - to - one tuition, pulling the plug on funding for breakfast clubs and other extended services, aborting the school building programme and siphoning off money to allow the pushy and the privileged to set up schools will hit the poorest and most disadvantaged children hardest.

And I will never accept the idea that it's ok for children from poorer backgrounds to do worse at school than their wealthier classmates.

«Poor children now, they're not thin, they're overweight» - @EmilyThornberry defends @UKLabour's free school meals for all policy on #Marr pic.twitter.com/7BZVUzS 9mS

One in four parents would choose a selective school for their child and half believe they provide the best opportunities for poorer students, a new survey reveals.

«Some schools will no doubt use the money effectively to improve attainment for children from poorer backgrounds.

The Lib Dems had apparently asked for an extra # 2.5 bn to spend on the school pupil premium to be spent on poorer children.

He has been a passionate supporter for annual increases in the Pupil Deprivation Grant which gives schools with higher numbers of children from poor backgrounds more money to spend.