Sentences with phrase «serve children eligible»

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Unfortunately, Head Start serves only 18 per cent of eligible disadvantaged children.

We serve pregnant and parenting high school eligible students (male and female) and their children ages 0 - 5 in northwest Aurora, Colorado.

CEO allows schools to serve free breakfast and free lunch to all students when 40 percent or more of students are certified for free meals without a paper application, which includes students who are directly certified (through data matching) for free meals because they live in households that participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), or the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR), as well as children who are automatically eligible for free school meals because of their status in foster care or Head Start, homeless, or migrant.

In return, they must serve meals that meet federal requirements and they must offer free or reduced priced meals to eligible children.

According to a report from the USDA, WIC served an estimated 63.5 percent of eligible women, infants, and young children in Maryland in 2014, compared to a 54.8 percent rate nationally.

1989 FRAC releases Feeding the Other Half, documenting the serious consequences of inadequate nutrition for low - income women, infants, and children eligible for, but not served by, WIC.

This one is extraordinary: Schools with 40 % or more of children eligible for free or reduced - price meals will be able to serve free breakfasts and free lunches to every student in the school, regardless of family income.

Just 16 percent of eligible children in Illinois participate in the federal Summer Food Service Program, which provides daily meals at community centers and other organizations, including those served by the Greater Chicago Food Depository in Cook County and Northern Illinois Food Bank in surrounding counties.

If a district offers a full - day program, it does not serve all eligible children, as some students are selected by lottery.

Long Island school districts lack a reliable funding stream for public pre-K and serve less than one - third of an estimated 28,000 eligible 4 - year - old children, even as support grows for a universal program available to all children.

It currently serves more than one million children below the poverty line, just under half of all eligible children, and it receives almost $ 8 billion in annual funding.

In addition, many of these programs are under - funded and do not serve all children who are eligible to receive services.

Pennsylvania's system for subsidizing private schools that are eligible to receive public money for serving children with severe disabilities has broken down — and state leaders are struggling to come up with solutions to fix it.

But now, as state and district officials begin putting major Title I changes in place — including increased leeway to choose which eligible children to serve, an emphasis on high academic...

The result is that Head Start has served only about 40 percent of eligible children who live right above the poverty line, he added.

In fact, charter high schools serve about 17 % less children from poverty [eligible for FREE lunch] than do many of the public high schools from which charters take students.

Impact Aid provides formula and competitive grants directly to eligible school districts serving federally connected children on military bases, Indian lands, and subsidized housing.

The program serves children ages 3 to 5 who are eligible for special education.

As my Choice Watch report (Cotto & Feder, 2014) demonstrated, charter schools in Connecticut tend to serve a relatively more advantaged group of (mostly) Black and Latinx children including fewer children with disabilities, emerging bilingual children, and children eligible for free and reduced priced meals compared to the students in local public schools in the same cities as the charter schools.

Among the facts from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Fourth Grade Reading report cited by FairTest: — There has been no gain in NAEP grade four reading performance nationally since 1992 despite a huge increase in state - mandated testing; — NAEP scores in southern states, which test the most and have the highest stakes attached to their state testing programs, have declined; — The NAEP score gap between white children and those from African American and Hispanic families has increased, even though schools serving low - income and minority - group children put the most emphasis on testing; and — Scores of children eligible for free lunch programs have dropped since 1996.

Many Head Start programs collaborate with child care and public preschool programs to serve eligible children, including children of migrant workers and tribal families.

But we still serve only a fraction of the poor children eligible to enroll because that is not enough money to pay enough people to serve all of the children living in poverty in America.

And in the Legislature, bills are moving in the Senate and Assembly, requiring schools with 70 percent or more students eligible for school breakfast to serve breakfast «after the bell» — the model that has proven to reach the most children.

Under the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP), eligible sites serve a snack or a meal to children as part of afterschool activities.

The distressing reality is that Head Start has never been able to serve more than a fraction of eligible children.

(1) provide subgrants to eligible entities serving a diversity of geographic areas, giving priority to entities serving greater numbers or percentages of children from low - income families; and (2) develop or enhance comprehensive literacy instruction plans that ensure high - quality instruction and effective strategies in reading and writing for children from early childhood education through grade 12,

(1) provide subgrants to eligible entities serving a diversity of geographic areas, giving priority to entities serving greater numbers or percentages of children from low - income families; and (2) develop or enhance comprehensive literacy instruction plans that ensure high - quality instruction and effective strategies in reading and writing for children from early childhood education through grade 12, including English learners and children with disabilities.

In addition, children who are not eligible for a targeted program can benefit from high - quality pre-K, and targeted programs frequently fail to reach many of the children they are designed to serve.

Early Head Start, which provides comprehensive services for infants and toddlers through home visiting, center - based care and family child care, was funded to serve only an estimated 4 percent of the 2.9 million poor children under age three who were eligible for the program on any given day in FY2012.

IDEA funds may not be used to serve children found eligible only under Section 504.

It should also serve as a reminder to parents who are eligible for child support that if they do not ask for it, they could lose it.

Obviously service members and veterans are eligible to become USAA members, but so are spouses, children and grandchildren of anybody who honorably served in the U.S. armed forces.

In 2015 — 16, only one - third of eligible children under age 5 were served by one of the state's ECE programs, leaving an estimated 650,000 children in or near poverty without access to affordable care.

The program did not include an eligible target population (pregnant women and families with children from birth to age 5 served in a developed world context).

All preschool programs that operate for four hours a day or less, are educational, and serve children from 36 months of age to eligible to attend public school, must be recorded.

Prior to sequestration, Head Start served only half of all eligible children.

Nationally, less than 3 percent of eligible children were served by Early Head Start.

Invest an additional $ 100 million in child care subsidies to serve at least 13,000 children who are eligible and waiting.

Maintain high quality of the Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program (ECEAP) and expand access to serve every eligible child by 2020

To be eligible for MIHOPE, a state needs to have local MIECHV programs that: (1) serve women who are 15 years old or older and who are pregnant or have a child who is six months old or younger; (2) operate one of the aforementioned home visiting models; and (3) have been operating continuously for two years or more at the time study activities begin in that state.

(B) consulting with other Federal agencies with responsibility for administering or evaluating programs that serve eligible families to coordinate and collaborate with respect to research related to such programs and families, including the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation of the Department of Health and Human Services, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention of the Department of Justice, and the Institute of Education Sciences of the Department of Education.

Despite the significant gains achieved in the 2007 reauthorization, Early Head Start is reaching only a small proportion of at - risk children and families — only three percent of all eligible children and families are served.2

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If a child is age birth through kindergarten and lives in one of the catchment areas that are served by a Judy Center, they are eligible for all services and activities offered.