Sentences with phrase «with higher poverty»

The divorce may result in the parent and children moving to an area with a higher poverty rate and a poor education system all due to the financial struggles of a single parent.

Cities with higher poverty rates are likely to have a higher concentration of uninsured drivers.

Taking into account the low poverty rate in New Hampshire and the modest cost of living, comparable programs could be established in any part of the country, even with a higher poverty rate, for a maximum of about 30 cents per person each year.

Madison had the highest score among the five largest districts in the state, but was in the bottom third of all districts, scoring lower than many districts with higher poverty rates.

Boundary participation rates also tend to be relatively higher in neighborhoods with higher poverty rates (controlling for other factors), where families appear to exercise options less frequently.

Colorado districts with higher poverty rates saw higher teacher turnover, including the Charter School Institute (CSI)-- the state's only non-district charter school authorizer.

And unfortunately, in general, schools with higher poverty levels tend to have more novice teachers.

Many studies have focused on how states or the entire nation performs, and have found that areas with higher poverty rarely fare well.

«We had to find out if we could bring international schools to areas of the city with higher poverty rates and more English - language learners.

In general, districts with higher poverty rates have higher rates of maltreatment investigations.

There is also evidence that schools with a higher poverty rate experience more disruptive behavior among students.

We contrasted decades with high disaster activity to decades of comparable calm, thus making it unlikely that we are simply observing areas with higher poverty rates.

Roland Fryer, a celebrated young professor of economics at Harvard University, has spent the past decade testing out a variety of incentive schemes in experiments with public school students in Houston, New York, Chicago, and other American cities that have school systems with high poverty rates.

Prior to that, Cuomo also announced «the Empire State Poverty Reduction Initiative,» a $ 25 million program to «bring together state and local government, non-profit and business groups to design and implement coordinated solutions to increase social mobility in ten cities with the highest poverty rates in the state.»

I am proposing $ 25 million to expand that initiative to the ten cities in upstate New York with the highest poverty rate.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Syracuse and nine other Upstate New York cities with the highest poverty rates will receive $ 500,000 grants to develop strategies to help poor people in Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposed state budget.

A Buffalo Public School with a high poverty rate that is following its own formula which includes the Common Core and is achieving some success.

There is research that shows that schools with high poverty are more likely to focus on reading and math in order to meet AYP at the expense of quality hours studying science.

Washington — Although the federal Chapter 1 program bypasses some schools with high poverty rates and some students with low achievement levels, it generally reaches the disadvantaged children it was meant to benefit, a new Education Department study concludes.

And we are a Title 1 school with high poverty levels, so asking parents for donations was out of the question.

It urges a formula based on each state's total number of children ages 3 to 21, weighted to benefit areas with high poverty rates.

The vision was ambitious, especially for a rural state with a high poverty rate.

Most or all parents attend school open house events in 72 percent of schools that have a low concentration of poverty compared with only 28 percent of schools with a high poverty concentration.

Teachers, particularly those working in schools located in communities with high poverty, often find themselves overburdened and under - resourced to help their students (and their students» families) who are experiencing routine and extreme trauma.

In a district like mine, with high poverty and minority representation in the schools and terrible academic outcomes, it is an unfortunate given among those middle class people who have succeeded in school (or think they have) that the only reason that the district has such lousy test scores and graduation rates is «the parents.»

Many Democrats see portability as the first step toward federal vouchers for private schools and argue that it would siphon dollars from schools with high poverty and profound needs to those in more affluent neighborhoods.

NCPW: You've painted a complex portrait of reform efforts in urban districts, especially those plagued for years with high poverty and low achievement.

To quote the National Association of Secondary School Principals report: «The problem is not as much with our educational system as it is with our high poverty rates.

Mark recently served three years as president of the city - wide PTA in Albany, which is a small district with a high poverty rate, and more charter schools per capita than any other district in the state.

Many Democrats argue that it is a first step toward private - school vouchers and would siphon dollars from schools with high poverty to those in more affluent neighborhoods.

We often hear about school districts with high poverty, terrible test scores and budget problems.

This puts wealthier students ahead and adds another barrier for schools with a high poverty rate to overcome.

At that time, Auer Avenue had the resources needed to employ a full team of professional educators to meet the needs of their students — a critical piece of the puzzle for student success in neighborhoods with high poverty and unemployment.

In this year as well as last, per capita sales were highest in counties with high poverty rates, where 20 percent or more of the population lives under the federal poverty line.

A Century Foundation study, «Housing Policy Is School Policy,» found that low - income students in Montgomery County who attend schools with low levels of poverty significantly outperform low - income students who attend schools with high poverty rates.

Schools with high poverty and more minority students had more of the emergency hires.

Using a complex weighting formula, schools with high poverty rates now fare better than in prior years if they demonstrate growth in educating low - income students.

This discovery was highlighted in a StudentsFirstNY report released last month that examined the distribution of teacher quality across NYC and found that students in schools with high poverty or percentages of minority students were more likely to have teachers rated «Unsatisfactory.»

Oklahoma administers a statewide, federally funded GEAR UP program, which partners with rural school districts with high poverty rates and low college - going rates to provide academic planning, mentoring, financial aid planning and college application assistance.

Most, not coincidentally, are from urban school districts with high poverty rates and large populations of students of color.

IARSS has proven experience with high poverty, large surban school districts as well as small rural community school districts.

You have districts with a high poverty rate versus others that don't.

With a high poverty rate, poor technical infrastructure, and difficulty providing service to and accessing information from remote and disadvantaged areas, Zambia faces many challenges to building a quality education system.

In addition, RIDE manages a number of federal grants and programs that provide funds to school districts for such programs as aid for schools with high poverty concentrations, the education of students with disabilities, and school breakfast and lunch programs.

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.

The NC Resilience and Learning Project works with high poverty schools across the state where trauma is prevalent in their student population.

Its unique and innovative blended turnaround school model is the first of its kind in the nation to be offered to schools with the highest poverty rates and needs.

However, high performing schools with high poverty and minority populations also retain effective teachers, which indicates that teacher turnover is more closely related to the environment and support that teachers receive than socioeconomic and ethnic status of the students (Johnson, Kraft, & Papay, 2012).

Taking into account that Black and Latinx students had suspension and expulsion rates triple that of white students and that districts with the highest number of students expelled or suspended are also those with high poverty and low student performance in the state of Connecticut, there is an argument for a lack of support for underprivileged students.

Somewhat surprisingly, ZIP codes with the highest poverty rates were much less likely to be child care deserts.