Sentences with phrase «poor urban ones»

Plaintiffs claimed that this particular diversion of funds deprives school districts, poor urban ones especially, of the ability to provide a «thorough and efficient educational system.»

Not exact matches

Since 1806 Mexico has suffered military intervention at least ten times by U.S. troops, and if there are no interventions in the offing now, perhaps it is largely because the U.S. has been shoring up the rule of one party, which wins rigged elections and then fails to challenge U.S. investment and business practices that increase human suffering for campesinos and urban poor there.

Mitchell, pastor and founder of Atlanta's Urban Foursquare Church, knows the day is coming soon when his congregation most likely will have to abandon its home in one of the city's poorest neighborhoods.

In fact, these conditions are worse today for the black poor, the one third of us who reside primarily in the urban centers like Chicago and New York.

May 1993 — One of the first major differences between HFA and the HFSC model emerged in 1993 when the original developers of the HFA model realized that the program would be more effective if it was flexible enough to fit in any community, whether urban or rural, rich or poor.

This seems surprising when one looks at the statistics — after all, the developing middle class, an indicator of a more urban and modernizing society, is still a minority (perhaps 300 million of China's 1.3 billion population), albeit a fast - growing one, and China remains a very poor country in terms of per capita GDP, as well as substantially rural.

It is the fourth poorest region in the country despite its agriculture, fishing and the high level of brisk business which goes on in one of its towns, which is arguably the most expanding urban area in West Africa, Kasoa.

Ultimately, this has led to a division in the urban population — with poor residents who can no longer afford to live in tsunami - safe locations on one side, and affluent residents on the other.

We carefully studied issues raised by skeptics: biases from urban heating (we duplicated our results using rural data alone), from data selection (prior groups selected fewer than 20 percent of the available temperature stations; we used virtually 100 percent), from poor station quality (we separately analyzed good stations and poor ones) and from human intervention and data adjustment (our work is completely automated and hands - off).

A scholarly publication is one in which the content is written by experts in a particular field of study - generally for the purpose of sharing The Populārēs (favouring the people, singular populāris) were a grouping in the late Roman Republic which favoured the cause of the plebeians (the commoners), particularly the urban poor.

As one recent study demonstrates, this «ghetto tax» means that the urban poor pay considerably more for goods and services ranging from food to auto insurance.

Jonathan Olshefski's documentary Quest charts the travails of an extended family in one of America's poorest urban neighbourhoods.

In previous work, one of us found that Washington State's 2004 compensatory allocation formula ensured that affluent Bellevue School District, in which only 18 percent of students qualify for free or reduced - price lunch, receives $ 1,371 per poor student in state compensatory funds, while large urban districts received less than half of that for each of their impoverished students (see Figure 2).

This comparison is likely to generate misleading conclusions for one simple reason, as the authors themselves point out on the first page of the executive summary and then again on page 57 of the full report: «the concentration of charter schools in urban areas skews the charter school enrollment towards having higher percentages of poor and minority students.»

Debunking the stereotype that the nation's poorest, most unhealthy, and most undereducated children are members of minority groups living in urban areas, the report says 14.9 million, or one - fourth of, American children living in rural areas face conditions «just as bleak and in some respects even bleaker than their metropolitan counterparts.»

She has chosen this job, one of four she was offered last spring, in part because she was impressed with the university's mission to serve the urban poor, particularly the African American and Latino communities.

«One of our major battlegrounds for helping poor rural and poor urban children is to fight for more Title I money,» said Jamie Horwitz, speaking for the AFT.

It exemplifies a successful school turnaround, one of the toughest feats in U.S. education, it exemplifies success in an urban high school attended mainly by poor and minority kids — the other toughest challenge in U.S. education.

Poor educational opportunities will remain the norm unless we tackle one remaining issue: the structure of urban school districts.

Partnership Schools (PNYC) is a network of six urban Catholic schools in Harlem and the South Bronx, serving over 2,000 students from two of the poorest congressional districts in the country, in the heart of one of the richest cities in the world.

Like equalization formulas in other states, the one in Kansas was designed to help poor, primarily urban districts, not the sprawling, land - rich agricultural areas of the state, like Beloit, where Mr. Bottom serves as superintendent of schools.

And this is as true for children in our suburban schools — where one out of every four fourth - graders are functionally illiterate — as it is for our poorest and minority kids in urban and rural communities.

A recent study of urban, suburban, and rural schools in four states found that smaller schools helped close the achievement gap — as measured by test scores — between students from poor communities and students from more affluent ones.

Yet education traditionalists, ivory tower civil rights activists, and dyed - in - the - wool progressives, still stuck on integration as school reform, would rather criticize charters for supposedly perpetuating segregation (even though most urban communities largely consist of one race or class) than embrace a tool for helping poor and minority families give their children opportunities for high - quality education.

One assumes that is the money they collect from school districts for recruiting and placing TFA recruits in poor, urban districts around the nation.

In some poor, typically urban schools fewer than 10 % are proficient at reading and math by fourth grade, and yet these kids are pushed forward by the demand of a one - size - fits - all educational model to work within a curriculum that was designed for kids who are fully proficient in the learning content and skills that were «covered» in previous school years.

Asbury Park is one of 31 poor urban school districts, formerly known as Abbott districts, in the state that must provide mandatory preschool for children ages 3 to 4.

One is her home in a poor black urban neighborhood; the other is the tony suburban prep school she attends with the white boy she dates there.

David Schneider, a Sutton Group Immobilia realtor and history - buff, explains that historically the neighbourhood has been one of the poorest urban communities in Canada.

Marble dust became just one of his many «poor materials,» including earth, sand, string, rags and scribblings reminiscent of urban walls of graffiti blaring virulent protest.

We carefully studied issues raised by skeptics: biases from urban heating (we duplicated our results using rural data alone), from data selection (prior groups selected fewer than 20 percent of the available temperature stations; we used virtually 100 percent), from poor station quality (we separately analyzed good stations and poor ones) and from human intervention and data adjustment (our work is completely automated and hands - off).

In any case, reducing power theft among the urban poor will solve only one of many problems for India's grid.

As the latest IPCC report noted, «Poor people living in urban informal settlements, of which there are [already] about one billion worldwide, are particularly vulnerable to weather and climate effects.»

At the same time, it is one of the poorest countries in the world, with a high rate of deforestation and forest degradation due to rapid urban expansion.

Another culprit is the Chinese government: On one side, it asks automakers to make more efficient vehicles, but on the other it «has tried to shield farmers and the urban poor from high oil prices by freezing pump prices for gasoline and diesel, keeping them among the world's lowest.

May 1993 — One of the first major differences between HFA and the HFSC model emerged in 1993 when the original developers of the HFA model realized that the program would be more effective if it was flexible enough to fit in any community, whether urban or rural, rich or poor.

From a total of 19 schools, the three or four most similar schools were identified within each of the five urban areas and randomly assigned to one of three conditions were 1) GBG, 2) the Mastery Learning (ML) program (designed to improve poor reading achievement), and 3) an external control condition with no experimental intervention.