Sentences with phrase «reduced access to education»

Possible reasons for advanced stage diagnosis among minorities may include lower screening rates, lower income levels, and reduced access to education and health care.

Reducing enrolment means reducing access to education.

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Gates established the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in 2000, a private philanthropic foundation dedicated to reducing poverty, enhancing health care, improving education opportunities, and providing access to technology worldwide.

Reducing births requires access too artificial birth control along with education on how to use it effectively.

Proponents for an individual's reproductive rights support data suggesting comprehensive sex education and birth control reduce abortion rates when young people have access to them.

With new Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) regulations and impending deadlines for compliance, ACS and Cherney's new partnership will help provide producers with access to needed resources at reduced costs — resources including education, discounted services, simplified testing packages, and technical support for society members.

The AAP opposes the current bill in the U.S. House of Representatives, H.R. 5003, the Improving Child Nutrition and Education Act of 2016, because it would reduce access to free breakfast and lunch for children under the Community Eligibility Provision, endanger our child nutrition programs through a harmful 3 - state block grant program, weaken the evidence - based school nutrition standards, and fail to adequately invest in WIC, child care and summer feeding programs.

A family's access to a reliable supply of clean diapers reduces the risk of disease, improves the baby's health and comfort, and enables the baby's participation in early care and education programs.

With the universal distribution of baby boxes in Ohio, including the perinatal education and access to community resources, Babies Need Boxes hopes to reduce the risk of sleep - related infant deaths, and help people understand

Earn and Learn reduces the diaper gap by combining two vital components of self - sufficiency: education and access to resources.

Enhancing Access / Reducing Barriers - Improving systems and processes to increase the ease, ability and opportunity to utilize those systems and services (e.g. education, safety, special needs, cultural and language sensitivity).

«Tackling child poverty, reducing unemployment and ensuring that every child has access to a good education is vital.

Government is also building and commissioning more Community Day Senior High schools, to increase access and to reduce imbalance in the provision of education across the country.This is the vision of the government; to transform Ghana into a leading education hub, for the West African Sub-region, and it was also building new universities, training colleges and vocational schools across the country.

New York spent $ 21,206 per pupil compared to a national average of $ 11,392 in school year 2014 - 2015.38 Better targeting spending to the highest needs districts would contain costs while ensuring that all students have access to a sound basic education.39 The State wastes $ 1.2 billion annually on property tax rebates and allocates $ 4 billion annually on economic development spending with a sparse record of results.40 Curtailing spending in these areas would reduce pressure to increase taxes and lessen the tax differential with other states.

It is also to enable students dropping out at the SHS who otherwise would have continued to acquire functional skills, as well as increase the chances of students from poor background accessing high education to reduce the cost of education of many households.

It is about how to accelerate the achievements of our collective desires for shared prosperity; it is about how to give power back to our people, the electorate; it is about how to reduce social exclusion; it is about unimpeded access to jobs, healthcare delivery, education; It's about changing the structure of the economy; it's about placing emphasis and I mean more emphasis on industry and value addition.

Stressing that he remained committed to expanding access to all levels of education, the Governor pointed out that the reduction of fees at the University in 2012 was to reduce the burden placed on parents by their children's tertiary education.

New York State Senate Democratic Policy Group Initiatives Would Help Over 1.3 Million New Yorkers; Make Higher Education More Affordable by Reducing Student Loan Debt, Increasing Savings For Families, Expanding Access to College Credit for High School Students Initiatives to Enhance Readiness and Increase Graduation Rates and Employment Will Help More New Yorkers Achieve College Success

Innovative uses of science and technology are reducing the digital divide, enhancing human rights online, and advancing access to medicines, clean water, education and more.

Access to state - supported early childhood programs significantly reduces the likelihood that children will be placed in special education in the third grade, academically benefiting students and resulting in considerable cost savings to school districts, according to new research published today in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, a peer - reviewed journal of the American Educational Research Association.

And even knowing this, I will continue to fight for expanded access to higher education for low and middle - income students by: • Strengthening Pell Grants, student aid, student access, and minority serving institutions; • Reducing red tape for students and graduates; • Removing barriers for non-traditional students; and • Empowering consumers through «sunshine» and transparency in college costs & accreditation.

«If so, it will be important to link mandated education to medical licensure to avoid having clinicians opt out — since that could lead to reduced treatment access, as well as burnout among the clinicians who opt in,» he added.

«Education has the potential to both reduce overprescribing and ensure that patients in need retain access to opioids,» explained Alford, who is also medical director of Boston Medical Center's Office - based Opioid Treatment (OBOT) program.

Adolescents are significantly affected by HIV and other STIs, yet many lack access to sexual health education that could minimize their risks, said the researchers, who note that videogames offer an accessible, portable tool for promoting health and reducing risky behavior among teenagers, particularly minority youth who are disproportionately impacted.

But Richenda Van Leeuwen, the U.N. Foundation's new point woman on energy poverty, said leaders widely recognize the impossibility of achieving universal primary school education, reducing child mortality or other development targets without access to electricity.

The main goals of «Healthy People 2020» are: to help individuals avoid preventable diseases, injuries and / or disabilities that can shorten and / or reduce the quality of their lives, help all individuals have access to health prevention exams and tests, eliminate health - related discrimination, improve the health of everyone, create a healthy environment that supports healthy eating, exercise and an overall healthy lifestyle and help individuals improve the quality of their lives through education, guidance and the willingness to embrace a healthier lifestyle through all of the various stages of life.

«It strengthens the case for all women of reproductive age having greater access to nutritional, education and lifestyle support to improve the health of the next generation, and to reduce the risk of the conditions such as diabetes and heart disease, which often follow obesity.»

Luckily, policymakers have plenty of proven levers: expand income support for families as the EITC, [27] reduce food insecurity while improving maternal health and birth outcomes through a robust SNAP, [28] maintain children's access to Medicaid, [29] and continue to work towards improving the equity and quality of general education.

One of the focus areas of universal primary education is to increase access, enrollment of all children and reduce school drop outs.

LC Energy firmly believes that extending access to approved and accredited technical education and skills training in renewable energy is key to addressing this, and to reducing the country's reliance on fossil fuels.

For cost - conscious education establishments, access control has another money - saving benefit, in that it can be integrated with a building's energy management system to reduce energy costs, address environmental concerns and improve energy efficiency.

We're looking to significantly reduce the number of sickness days lost by teachers and education workers by giving them access to a GP immediately through our mobile app platform, Dr Now / Now GP.

Having access to a great education is the only proven way to reduce that gap, and I can think of nothing more meaningful than dedicating my life to becoming the best educator I can be.»

Altogether, five states now provide educational savings plans to students in varying degrees, with most currently restricting access either to those eligible for free and reduced lunch or those with specific disabilities or individualized education plans.

• Overwhelming parental support for the following elements of an education agenda: Provide extra resources to turn around struggling neighborhood schools; hold charter schools accountable; provide more support / training for struggling teachers; expand / improve new - teacher mentoring; reduce class sizes, especially in the early grades; make public schools hubs of the neighborhood with longer hours, academic help and health services for families; provide extra pay for teachers in hard - to - staff schools; and ensure access to high - quality preschool for all 3 - and 4 - year - olds.

In her scholarship, she has studied the role of financial aid in increasing access to higher education, the effects of postsecondary remediation, and the impact of institutional initiatives aimed at reducing inequality in college outcomes.

On the other hand, rigorous research supports the hypothesis that increasing access to education reduces subsequent criminal behavior.

CSDC has proven that through collaboration and leveraging, its innovative programs positively impact low - income and low - wealth communities by increasing access to high quality public education and reducing the «achievement gap» for minority and at - risk students.

Over the last decade, the East Irondequoit Board of Education took on the challenge of providing access to college - level work in a diverse high school in which 51 % of all students receive free or reduced priced lunch.

The U.S. Department of Education is a proponent of blended learning, as a way to provide more individualized learning, broaden access for all students in K - 12 and higher education, and to reduce costs while improving educational prodEducation is a proponent of blended learning, as a way to provide more individualized learning, broaden access for all students in K - 12 and higher education, and to reduce costs while improving educational prodeducation, and to reduce costs while improving educational productivity.

If students on any path were free to access specialist teaching in other institutions, many of the issues relating to the consequences of Raising the Participation Age (RPA)-- such as colleges accusing schools of rejecting GCSE «failures» and the challenge faced by further education teachers to deliver results in GCSE English and maths effectively — could be significantly reduced.

We transform Los Angeles neighborhoods using a holistic approach to reduce poverty by ensuring families have access to high - quality schools, wraparound education, and technology services, enabling a successful transition from cradle to college and career.

The Civil Rights Project's Center for Civil Rights Remedies (CCRR) is dedicated to improving educational opportunities and outcomes for children from subgroups who have been discriminated against historically due to their race / ethnicity, and who are frequently subjected to exclusionary practices such as disciplinary removal, over-representation in special education, and reduced access to a college - bound curriculum

They are designed to help reduce disparities in the classroom by ensuring that all students have access to a robust and high - quality education.

The Center is dedicated to improving educational opportunities and outcomes for children from subgroups who have been discriminated against historically due to their race / ethnicity, and who are frequently subjected to exclusionary practices such as disciplinary removal, over-representation in special education, and reduced access to a college - bound curriculum.

«States can adopt policies that leave huge swaths of kids without access to a free and appropriate education [and] many southern states would adopt the same strategy as Texas in order to reduce education spending.»

Our role in Washington is to support reform by encouraging high standards, bold approaches to helping struggling schools, closing the achievement gap, strengthening the field of education, reducing the dropout rate and boosting college access.

Pearson Education, ETS (Educational Testing Service), Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, McGraw - Hill and dozens of other companies have spent tens of millions of dollars lobbying to weaken privacy laws or stop the federal and state governments from reducing their access to student data.

Sir Peter Lampl, chairman of the education charity Sutton Trust, said: «These figures should cause the government to avoid steps that could hamper access, including replacing grants for poorer students with loans leaving them more indebted than richer students, cutting widening participation funding, or reducing the independence of the access regulator.»

The services address the goals and objectives in the student's IEP while ensuring access to the general education curriculum through assistive technology, reduced class - size, and differentiated instruction.