Sentences with phrase «poor kids access»

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And it works both ways: a la carte lines can mean that poor kids lose access to less - than - healthy but highly - kid - popular junk food like Flamin» Hot Cheetos and tater tots, and it can also mean that only kids with money can access better food, like yogurts, salads and fresh sandwiches that are only offered a la carte.

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.

That move was controversial, particularly in Troy, and Fahy says she always believed it was wrong - headed because it made museum access harder for poor kids from the city.

It should be said that in both cases, the kids have convenient access to the inner workings of the museum, Rose through family connections (she is no poor underdog) and Ben through making friends with a kid who knows the secret places.

That letter helped fuel Fisher's idea of starting a school that would give urban kids, especially those from poor minority communities, access to water.

Black said TFA concluded that the challenges were the same in every country — poor kids don't have the same access to education as richer kids — and that TFA could «help shorten the learning curve» for those entrepreneurs.

New means of accountability, such as the Standard & Poor's School Evaluation Service and Just for the Kids, provide powerful ways of analyzing school performance (including financial data) and can be easily accessed by parents via the Internet.

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.

Chalk artificially high grades up to one more advantage rich kids have over their poorer counterparts, including more college - prep courses, more access to test prep services, and more with parents who attended college.

If schools are forced by an OCR investigation to expand access to AP classes for poor and minority kids, what are the chances that they will also do all the complex work it takes (from kindergarten through 11th grade) to make sure those students are ready?

Limiting the access of middle class families to wide - ranging school choices (and even more - expansive Parent Power) just because they have the perceived financial means to buy homes and send kids to private schools is just as intellectually and morally indefensible as limiting the choices of the poor.

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.

This June, in an effort to give more students access to excellent teachers, the United States Department of Education required states to submit «educator equity plans,» meant to identify the root causes of why poor and minority kids receive more inexperienced teachers and fix the problem.

If the United States could somehow guarantee poor people a fair shot at the American dream through shifting education policies alone, then perhaps we wouldn't have to feel so damn bad about inequality — about low tax rates and loopholes that benefit the superrich and prevent us from expanding access to childcare and food stamps; about private primary and secondary schools that cost as much annually as an Ivy League college, and provide similar benefits; about moving to a different neighborhood, or to the suburbs, to avoid sending our children to school with kids who are not like them.

This bill clearly demonstrates that legislators» «school choice» agenda is about providing subsidies to wealthy families that send their kids to private schools and NOT about ensuring that all students, including poor children, have access to a quality education.

The group, in turn, successfully beat back efforts by reformers and school choice activists in the Sunshine State to expand choice (and abolish the religious bigotry - driven Blaine amendment banning the use of public school dollars for expanding access to high - quality private school options for poor and minority kids) through the passage of Amendment 8.