Sentences with phrase «very high poverty»

Dayton has a very high poverty level (39 %) that is nearly triple the national average.

In addition to the harsh terrain, Nepal has a very high poverty rate and great political unrest so these circumstances would be incredibly tough, both on you and on dogs!

In my experience, the very high poverty schools have a high percentage of families in crisis.

One high school principal told me: «My school has very high poverty and mobility rates.

What is shocking about the above chart is that just 14 years ago, almost half of all public schools in the US were low poverty schools — with only 30 % being High to Very High poverty schools.

«So, everything in terms of the environment and safety and crime and things that are happening in the neighborhoods... thinking about economic development, the fact that we have very high poverty rates, very high segregation rates around race and class and so all of those things play a factor when you're talking about our lowest performing schools,» Driver says.

We have a very high poverty rate,» she told The Associated Press on Friday.

Not exact matches

On May 18, Swiss voters will decide if they want to introduce the world's highest minimum wage to their country where the cost of living is extremely high and the unemployment and poverty rates very l...

«It's really very skewed toward higher - income families, which is the biggest problem with it,» says Angela Rachidi, a research fellow in poverty studies at the American Enterprise Institute.

Links between poverty and HIV / AIDS are obviously very complex: Many wealthy people succumb, and, most tragically, intelligent people like teachers have higher incidence levels.

Christmas has largely become this jacked - up faith's glitzy high holy day, marked by the kind of consuming and spending and barn - building that bears very little resemblance to a Jesus who was born in anonymous poverty, ministered while homeless and altered the planet without a budget, church building, tax exemption or media empire.

The price is also very high: an increase in unemployment, poverty, and misery.»

Waste can have a very high contribution to providing electricity to citizens and alleviating energy poverty, especially in countries with low access to electricity and reduced electricity consumption per capita.

Another huge difference is that the U.S. has the highest child poverty rate in the industrialized world, while Finland's is very low.

«In any school, whether it's a high poverty or low poverty school, there are always some kids that have had very stressful beginnings.

SADA is very dear to my heart.My mother is a Northerner, the incidence of poverty is highest in the three Northern Regions and for a President who comes from the Northern Region, who promised to alleviate poverty, what happened to the Guinea fowls?

This is especially true in schools whose students come from high - poverty households, where teacher turnover rates are especially high and where it is often very difficult to recruit new teachers who are as effective as those who left.

Bolder, Broader Action: Strategies for Closing the Poverty Gap Education Week, May 27, 2011 «We have set the nation's highest standards, been tough on accountability and invested billions in building school capacity, yet we still see a very strong correlation between socioeconomic background and educational achievement and attainment,» writes Senior Lecturer Paul Reville.

These outcomes are promising, particularly because schools with reported student outcomes were very high - poverty.

In a very good recent article, Richard Whitmire extols the virtues of high - performing high - poverty charters.

For example, describing these students as living in homes with a low income or with low SES (socioeconomic status) is very different, and more accurate, than calling them «low - income students,» «low - SES students,» or «high - poverty kids.»

Among the books educator Lisa Signorelli has read about teaching children in high poverty schools, she finds Disrupting Poverty: Five Powerful Classroom Practices is the easiest to understand and contains very impactful strategies to use in the clapoverty schools, she finds Disrupting Poverty: Five Powerful Classroom Practices is the easiest to understand and contains very impactful strategies to use in the claPoverty: Five Powerful Classroom Practices is the easiest to understand and contains very impactful strategies to use in the classroom.

«This was a very cynical statement that she doesn't believe teachers and schools can make a difference in high - poverty areas,» says Colorado State Senator Mike Johnston, a former teacher and principal whose sweeping tenure - reform law is a national model.

Chadwick Elementary is a fascinating case of a high poverty, high ELL school performing at very high levels.

Designed for a very mixed ability year 10 class with a high proportion of EAL / SEN alongside some predicted A * as an introduction to the idea of charity, wealth, riches, poverty Zakah etc..

The net result of the calculations under the Additional Child Tax Credit is that the very lowest income families receive nothing and those doing better but still living in poverty receive less than they would if they were making a modestly higher income.

Take a high - poverty middle school, for instance — a very typical SIG grantee.

The outcomes of the Isolation of Poverty Index and Isolation of Wealth Index are highly correlated with district FRPL rates because districts with very high or low populations of FRPL - eligible students are much more likely to be economically isolated.

Nearly two - thirds of Americans consider the issue of school segregation to be «somewhat important» or «very important» to them, and 70 percent of Americans agree that more should be done to integrate low - and high - poverty schools.

For instance, the authors excluded districts with poverty rates of less than 20 percent or more than 80 percent — districts with extremely high or low rates can do very little to remedy segregation within their district boundaries.69 The authors also excluded school districts with fewer than ten schools.

This is especially true in schools whose students come from high - poverty households, where teacher turnover rates are especially high and where it is often very difficult to recruit effective new teachers who are as effective as those who left.

There is always a big hullabaloo when American students score average on international tests, but the fact is that American kids in very low - poverty schools score as high or higher than anybody else on the planet.

In both districts, schools serving the most affluent students received tens of thousands of dollars in additional funding each year from parents, while the highest - poverty schools received very little, if anything, from their PTAs.

In 2013 - 14, for example, the 10 most affluent schools in Portland raised at least $ 750,000, while the 10 highest - poverty schools received very little money in parent donations.

And while Florida's current A-F school grading system tries to adjust for the fact that schools in high poverty areas face challenges that make it very hard for their students to perform well on standardized tests, it's not enough, says Alan Ehrenhalt for Governing Magazine.

Many successful charter management organizations (CMOs) help break the cycle of intergenerational poverty by sending low - income students of color to college at very high rates.

«It was a very difficult year and the state was gutting the budget for public schools so the highest poverty areas were feeling the most pain,» said Tuck, who was Partnership's CEO at the time.

That is not to say that high - poverty schools can not be very effective.

We in CT have some very wealthy areas where students score extremely high on tests - higher than students in many other states - which creates a wider gap between low poverty and high poverty students.

It was at University of Southern California 25 years ago that Wendy Kopp gathered 500 idealistic corps members for the very first summer training institute and launched them into teaching positions at high - poverty schools in Los Angeles and across the...

«A very high share of non-white kids live in poverty.

And even the nation's very best high - poverty charter school chain, KIPP, which enjoys all the advantages of self - selection, high attrition, and unparalleled philanthropic support, fails to produce college graduates two - thirds of the time.

The reason we in the US can not fire our way to the high test scores in Finland is because Finland has a very low child poverty rate — which is why their students have such high test scores.

Meanwhile, compared to high - poverty districts, few, if any, Commonwealth charter schools enroll the same percentage of children from low - income families, children with special needs, or children learning English as a second language — the very students who struggle most with standardized MCAS tests.

It was at University of Southern California 25 years ago that Wendy Kopp gathered 500 idealistic corps members for the very first summer training institute and launched them into teaching positions at high - poverty schools in Los Angeles and across the country.

To start unpacking the data, first we looked at the performance of just the low - income students by sorting all Oakland schools by their concentration of students in poverty — that is, those that had a very high percentage of students eligible for free or reduced price lunch..

Today, Rocketship's schools are among the very highest - performing among high - poverty schools in California — so much so that their results even exceeded the highest income school district in California in 2009 — 10.

«It's very encouraging how those counties have minimized high - poverty schools,» Wisconsin scholar Kraus says.

American children from high - income families do very well on international tests, but our children of poverty do much worse, and nearly 75 % of LAUSD students are poor enough to qualify for free lunches.

Schools with high poverty levels (as determined by free and reduced), and the US has more of those than all but one OECD nation, the scores are very low.