Sentences with phrase «serving low income children»

Ten urban schools serving low income children from mixed cultural backgrounds participated in a large study.

Head Start and Early Childhood Programs in Michigan is a comprehensive preschool program serving low income children ages birth to 5 years old.

The report's authors also point to evidence that shows that any kind of charter serving low income children is more likely to outperform regular schools with similar student demographics.

Not exact matches

Over one third of the programs receive federal funds, an indication that many low - income children are being served.

Most preschools and schools that serve low - income children in this country don't operate anything like Educare or Polaris.

There is an obvious disparity between the funds made available by the federal government to support free meals for low - income students and the revenue collected by school districts (from federal «paid» meal reimbursements and student payments) to support the very same meals when served to children at higher income levels.

In some American schools, snacks are served to all children (on the theory that they need good nutrition, so that hunger doesn't interfere with learning — which is true, particularly for lower - income kids, but perhaps not necessarily needed for all children).

West Virginia came in first for the third year in a row, serving breakfast to 83.9 low - income children for every 100 who ate school lunch, while Nevada showed the largest increase over last year, growing their SBP participation by 26.5 percent.

Often, they use part of the federal reimbursements for meals served to low - income children.

During SY 2013 - 14, the SBP served 11.2 million low - income children (daily average).

DCCK will continue its food service to two private schools that serve low - income children, as well as a charter school in Ward 6.

Additionally, some low - income respondents expressed concern that a hungry child may prompt neighbors or teachers to report a case of suspected neglect to Child Protective Services, even if was the child was hungry because she herself declined to eat what was sechild may prompt neighbors or teachers to report a case of suspected neglect to Child Protective Services, even if was the child was hungry because she herself declined to eat what was seChild Protective Services, even if was the child was hungry because she herself declined to eat what was sechild was hungry because she herself declined to eat what was served.

DC Central Kitchen is the food service provider for 15 schools in Washington, DC — 12 DC Public Schools located primarily in Ward 7, and 3 private and charter schools serving low - income children.

The CHA, along with the city's Department of Human Services, are the two major Chicago sponsors for the summer food service program, which serves children 18 and under in low - income areas.

Chicago Children's Museum offers discounted field trips to 501 (c) 3 organizations serving low - income families and schools with 80 % or more of their students approved for free and reduced price meals (as cited by the Illinois State Board of Education for the 2016 - 2017 school year).

Free Field Trips Chicago Children's Museum offers free field trips to 501 (c) 3 organizations serving low - income families and schools with 95 % or more of their students approved for free and reduced priced meals (as cited by the Illinois Department of Education).

Discounted Field Trips Chicago Children's Museum offers discounted field trips to 501 (c) 3 organizations serving low - income families and schools with 80 % or more of their students approved for free and reduced priced meals (as cited by the Illinois Department of Education).

While the USDA Child Nutrition Program is critical for ensuring that low income children receive healthy meals, it also allows day - care providers to receive compensation for the foods they serve all their day - care children, not just those who are low income.

Of the 75 school districts surveyed for this report, 22 achieved FRAC's benchmark of serving 70 low - income children with school breakfast for every 100 receiving school lunch.

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.

By the 2000s, the program had grown to serve more than 32 million children, and breakfast and supper were added in areas where most of the children were low - income.

Nevertheless, I've visited plenty of schools - even in low - income communities - where children are served grown - up food, eat it happily and are eager try new tastes.

The National School Lunch program exists to serve low - income children (those receiving federal meal subsidies), and among that group, participation has actually increased.

This funding can come in the form of a state reimbursement for free and reduced price meals paid on top of the Federal reimbursement; for example, the state of California is supposed to give schools an extra.219 for every meal served to a qualifying low income child (in fact, due to the ongoing budget crisis in California, that reimbursement has not always been paid for every qualifying meal in recent years.)

Wellspring Family Services is a nonprofit, multi-service agency serving low - income and vulnerable individuals, children and families in Seattle and King County.

The Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) allows schools that predominately serve low - income children to offer free, nutritious school meals to all students through the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs.

In June 2012, CDC awarded a 3 - year cooperative agreement to the National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality to assist 89 hospitals, mostly located in states that have lower breastfeeding rates and that serve low - income and minority women, with improving maternity care practices to support breastfeeding and to move toward the Baby - Friendly designation.

The school lunch rules apply to federally subsidized lunches served at reduced or no cost to low - income children.

As part of the study, researchers conducted interviews with mothers of infants from the Athens community, including 12 from the Athens branch of Women, Infants and Children, or WIC, which serves low - income mothers, and nine from Full Bloom Pregnancy and Early Parenting Center, which tends to serve middle income, highly educated mothers, Anderson said.

«Working collaboratively with the Broome County Promise Zone, those interested in serving as mentors will be matched with children in schools that are part of CCPA's University - assisted community school effort, which aims to level the playing field for students from low - income families who lack some of the supports for academic success from which children from middle - class families benefit,» Bronstein said.

The new Jerri Hoffmann Child + Family Center opened Monday in Carpentersville, but Illinois» budget battle left some wondering whether it will be able to serve the additional low - income working families it was meant to help.Operated by the Children's Home...

In the original randomized controlled trial, 10 elementary schools with pre-k programs serving primarily black and Latino children from low - income families were randomized to receive ParentCorps or standard pre-k programming.

Together these programs serve more than a hundred million of the nation's most vulnerable people — low - income children and adults, people with disabilities, and older persons.

Carol holds a doctorate in Political Science from the University of Chicago, served on the faculty at Macalester College, and has extensive experience as a research consultant specializing in issues affecting low - income children and families.

A strength of NCLB is that it draws attention to the academic skills of children from low - income families, children of color, children whose first language is not English, and children with disabilities — groups that historically have not been well served by American schools.

In addition, the working conditions in urban schools serving low - income children are likely to be rigid, rule - bound, and unpleasant, none of which facilitates enthusiasm among teachers or fosters academic learning.

To make sure we go where the need is greatest, we only partner with schools in areas that serve low income communities and where there is a significant attainment gap between these children and their wealthier peers.

Mr. Ungerer, 58, previously served as the president and chief executive officer of the I Have A Dream Foundation, a New York City - based organization that provides college - preparatory tutoring and mentoring for children in low - income areas.

This would seem to be a simple matter of common sense in affluent communities, but it represents a form of privilege, it seems, in schools serving low - income, urban children.

Today, Head Start serves almost 1 million preschool - age children; research has shown that it lives up to its name, giving low - income children a much - needed boost that leads to improved academic performance in their school years.

STANFORD — While the recent debate in Washington, D.C. over the Opportunity Scholarship Program, which serves low - income children, has highlighted a sharp political divide in our nation's capital over school choice, outside the beltway special education voucher programs tell a different story.

As noted above, in Ga and Hyderabad we were comparing public and private schools that were located in similar, low - income areas, while in Kibera, private schools served only slum children, and public schools served middle - class children as well as slum children.

Even if local personnel policies might partially buffer the impact on low - income children by re-assigning ineffective teachers and paying effective teachers to take their place, such salary incentives are expensive (with the costs being borne disproportionately by schools serving low - income children) and have been only partially effective where they have been tried.

If it is possible to meet the needs of special education students at a public school serving low - income children in the Bronx, it can be done at other public schools and at charter schools, too.

Piney Branch Elementary serves an incredibly diverse group of 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders, from the children of übereducated white and black middle - class families, to poor immigrant children from Latin America, Ethiopia, and Eritrea, to low - income African American kids.

Is it enough that Success serves low - income minority children exceedingly well?

«In mapping the education journey of children at schools serving low income communities or those from poor families, a school pattern emerges.

One of the first schools Grant visited in Raleigh, in the historic black district, serves a student population that is majority black with one - third of children from low - income families.

But there is a fundamental flaw in fiscal federalism theory as it applies to education: the ability of taxpaying parents of school - age children to vote with their feet (leave school districts with which they are dissatisfied) is severely constrained for the low - income populations that are most likely to find themselves served by low - performing schools.

I should note that I work in schools that are «underperforming» and serve low - income children, many of whom are English - language learners.