Sentences with phrase «significantly less poverty»

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Urban school districts spend significantly less per pupil on their high - poverty schools than their low - poverty ones, a fact that is routinely masked by school budgets that use average - salary figures rather than actual ones, a new paper suggests.

Most of the families who used MTO vouchers left areas of concentrated poverty for safer, significantly less impoverished neighborhoods.

The Per Pupil Revenue Limit (PPRL) analysis shows that districts of higher poverty have significantly lower PPRL, and therefore less ability to receive aid and levy appropriate taxes to fund public education than more affluent districts.

What policymakers are not regularly told is that although poverty level in all urban schools are high (both at charter and at traditional public schools), the students at many of Connecticut's urban charter schools are significantly «less poor» than the students who attend the public schools in those same communities.

«Children from homes that are considered impoverished with low educational backgrounds tend to have vocabulary and oral language skills significantly less than a child whose family is not living in poverty,» Bailey said.

In the long term, those participating children are more likely to be employed and less likely to be dependent on government assistance.9 The positive effects are larger, and more likely to be sustained, when programs are high quality.10 In addition, the impact is greatest for children from low - income families.11 Differences in children's cognitive abilities by income are evident at only nine months old and significantly widen by the time children are two years old.12 Children living in poverty are more likely to be subject to stressful home environments — which can have lifelong impacts on learning, cognition, and self - regulation — while parents living in poverty have limited resources to provide for their families and high barriers to accessing affordable, high - quality child care.13 High - quality early learning programs staffed by warm and responsive adults can help mitigate these effects, offering a safe and predictable learning environment that fosters children's development.14