Sentences with phrase «which eligible children»

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...

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Shoppers with an Electronic Benefits Transfer card, which is used for benefits like the Women, Infants and Children Nutrition Program, are eligible for the lower price.

Families with children age 13 and under are eligible to participate in the tradition, which dates to 1878 and the presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes.

In addition, children under the age of six with Autism Spectrum Disorder are now eligible for $ 4,000 in government money per year, which is a total investment of $ 2.8 million.

We all work together to create an integrated, and coordinated early intervention system which meets the developmental needs of eligible children and their families.

Children of working parents have the right to benefit from child - care services and facilities for which they are eligible.

The School Breakfast Program is one of several Child Nutrition Programs sponsored by the United States Department of Agriculture and administered by the Ohio Department of Education, which provides meal reimbursements for students eligible for free or reduced - price meals.

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.

The age at which children are eligible for free admission was raised to 14 from 12, said Jessica Maxey - Faulkner, the spokeswoman.

The age at which children are eligible for...

The Scorecard itemizes the extent to which many states left a significant amount of money on the table by not reaching more eligible children with school breakfast.

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.

The Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 9801 et seq.) is amended --(1) in section 658E (c)(3)(C) by adding at the end the following: «Provision of diapers for use by eligible children within the State who receive or are offered child care services for which financial assistance is provided under this Act is a direct service and shall not be included in administrative costs.&rChild Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 9801 et seq.) is amended --(1) in section 658E (c)(3)(C) by adding at the end the following: «Provision of diapers for use by eligible children within the State who receive or are offered child care services for which financial assistance is provided under this Act is a direct service and shall not be included in administrative costs.&rchild care services for which financial assistance is provided under this Act is a direct service and shall not be included in administrative costs.»

«John's history as a community leader will further engage and educate the community on the brand new Connect Kids initiative, which involves free access to all fourth - grade students and their families, free field trips for eligible schools, free Learn to Swim lessons for children, the youth conservation corps and various outdoor recreational programs.

On Monday, the state Senate voted down the measure, which would allow children of undocumented immigrants to be eligible for college financial aid.

A bill to extend by 5 months (through Sept. 1982) the date by which a child must have been enrolled in a postsecondary school to be eligible for benefits under Title II of the Social Security Act and...

Nearly 40 percent of surveyed parents say they have trouble knowing whether their child is eligible for different schools, compared to 33 percent for all eight cities in which we administered the survey.

Similarly, in Las Vegas, students at Cowan Sunset Southeast High School's campus can attend classes in the late afternoon and early evening to accommodate work schedules, and they may be eligible for child care, which is offered on a limited basis to help young parents continue their education.

For years, teachers, early - childhood experts, parents, and legislators have squabbled over the precise age at which children should be eligible to enter kindergarten.

A 2014 Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) survey found that while 55 percent of public school parents participated in choice, nearly one - third of families had some difficulty understanding which schools their children were eligible to attend, a quarter had trouble getting information to choose a school, and one in five reported difficulty in transporting their child to the school of their choice.

Last September, there was a groundbreaking study from the Urban Institute that looked at long - term outcomes in the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship program, which awards scholarships to eligible children from low - income families.

The rules for Even Start, which is to provide educational and other social services to disadvantaged children and their parents, specifies that participating children must reside in an elementary - school attendance area eligible for Chapter 1 compensatory education.

The support includes a series of «Train The Trainer» courses which will give local authority or academy trust staff the training, skill and expertise to deliver the Children's Food Trust's Small Step Improvement programme» to eligible schools in their area.

It also becomes very obvious which children are eligible for free school meals (FSM).

The case for catering Regarding catering, a cashless system can potentially prevent discrimination — paying by cash makes it very obvious which children are eligible for free school meals (FSM), but if all meals are paid for the same way, then this is no longer the case.

School voucher programs, which allow eligible families to send their children to private schools with the help of public funds, have sparked controversy since the first such initiative was launched in Milwaukee in 1991.

The bill also establishes a Promise Neighborhoods grant program, through which eligible entities shall provide pipeline services to address the needs of children in low - income and distressed neighborhoods.

Homeless children and youth and their families receive educational services for which they are eligible, including Head Start, Even Start, and preschool programs administered by the LEA, and referrals to health, mental health, dental, and other appropriate services;

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.

Although local councils, which have a duty to ensure places for every eligible child, convey the details of offers of places to parents, they do not have the power to create new schools.

PESAs, which were enacted by the legislature last year and become available beginning this fall, will allow families with eligible children with disabilities to use up to $ 9,000 in public funds loaded onto debit cards for tuition at private and home schools and other eligible education expenses.

This may be eligibility at the time of application or the broader «pupil premium», which includes children who were eligible for free meals at any point in the past six years.

Under the OSA, businesses receive tax credits worth 85 percent of their contributions to nonprofit scholarship organizations, which provide scholarships for low - and middle - income children to pay tuition at private schools or out - of - district public schools or to cover eligible homeschooling expenses.

To be eligible for enrollment in this program, children must be DC residents and be three (3) years of age on or before Sept. 30 of the program year for which the child is being enrolled, or be no older than five (5) years of age after Sept. 30 of the program year for which the child is being enrolled.

Each child is eligible for up to $ 7,500 worth of services, of which $ 3,250 is allotted for post-evaluation intervention services such as working with school personnel, implementing treatment plans, completing parent and teacher trainings, and providing other case management services.

Another important piece of research is this work from the Institute for Fiscal Studies, which found in 2013 that grammar schools were disproportionately unlikely to admit bright students who were eligible for free school meals or from poorer neighbourhoods and disproportionately likely to admit children from private primary schools.

Both Labour and the Conservatives back changes to the School Admissions Code which will prioritise children eligible for the pupil premium.

The government says 35 % of all pupils in England, which is 2.5 million children fall into its definition of coming from ordinary working families, because they fall below the median income but are not eligible for pupil premium.

A child may be found eligible for special education and related services as a child with an intellectual disability if there is an adverse effect on the child's educational performance due to documented characteristics of intellectual disabilities which are described as a significantly sub average general intellectual functioning, existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental period.

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.

-- A child who, at any time in the 2 years preceding the year for which the determination is made, participated in a Head Start, Even Start, or Early Reading First program, in preschool services under this title, is eligible for services under this part.

A child may be found eligible for special education and related services as a child with multiple disabilities if there is an adverse effect on the child's educational performance due to documented characteristics of multiple disabilities which are described as simultaneous impairments (Such as intellectual disability with blindness, intellectual disability with orthopedic impairment), the combination of which causes such severe educational needs that they can not be accommodated in special education programs solely for one of the impairments (this terms does not include deaf - blindness).

«We want to extend this option to all state schools, and also give admission authorities of primary schools the option to prioritise children eligible for the pupil premium, who attend a nursery which is part of the school.

But the same child would not be eligible under the new system, because their parent's income would be # 7,488, which is above the new threshold.

The student in a temporary living situation is entitled to enroll in either (1) his / her school of origin or (2) any school that non-homeless students who live in the attendance area in which the child or youth is actually living are eligible to attend.

According to the Nebraska Department of Education, 45 percent of children in Nebraska are eligible for free or reduced price lunch, which is the indicator schools use to measure poverty.

Model form that schools can use to determine which children are eligible for free school meals and the pupil premium.

To be eligible for the program, a child has to meet one of the following requirements: have been enrolled in a Florida public school during the entire previous school year, have been enrolled in the K - 8 Virtual School Program * (which is no longer available), or be a child of a military family.

This 1991 Memorandum from the U. S. Department of Education advises that children with ADD / ADHD may be eligible for special education services under several existing categories including LD, OHI, ED; describes circumstances under which schools must provide services and supports under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act.

This website from the Department of Human Services provides contact information and office hours for the subsidized child care program, which helps eligible families pay their child care fees.