Education and Poverty News
"The changes were even more dramatic for black and Hispanic students, children with disabilities, students in high-poverty districts and those whose first language is not English."
"In Vermont and the nation, low-income children typically score lower than middle- and upper-income children on standardized tests. Some research suggests low-income children slide academically in summer, while higher-income children continue to learn."
"Almost 1 million homeless students attended public schools in 2008-09, a 41 percent increase over the previous two years and another sign of how broadly the economic recession has struck America."
"Nearly 60 percent of the school districts in the state, representing 81 percent of Illinois' public school kids and 86 percent of its low-income public school kids, have signed on. That's up from 42 percent of districts in the first round."
"Larry Green is superintendent of a rural school district that stretches alongside the Mississippi River, and he knows how challenging life can be for children from poor families."
"I worked with Strickland to put in place the Education Challenge Factor, which is sensitive to districts that need more money based on the poverty level, property values and, for the first time, the education attainment levels of the parents."
"Title I schools with large low-income student populations continue to receive additional money for professional learning, Beasley said. However, budget cuts had an impact on the use of outside consultants."
"The state Department of Education plans to design new research-based evaluation models over the next few months. Officials hope to try out the models next year in school divisions with low-achieving and high-poverty schools."
"The month-long 'Backpack to the Future' School Supply Drive begins Monday. Collected items will benefit low-income kindergarten-age school children throughout Northwest Ohio."
"But Tuesday, after 1,000 people rallied in downtown Raleigh to support economic (and racial) diversity in schools, Margiotta said: 'This board does not intend to create high-poverty or low-performing schools in the new zone assignments.'"
"Six weeks may be the boost needed to help close the educational gap between lower- and upper-income children. That is the length of the Horizons at Harley Student Enrichment Program."
"Schools are subject to different levels of sanctions depending on how many consecutive years they fail to reach that benchmark. Schools with many low-income students get Title I money to bolster academics."
"The report is part of a study released earlier this year that examined suburban poverty in 100 of the nation's largest metropolitan areas, Harvey said. Polk County has the fifth-highest rate of suburban poverty in the nation, according to the report."
"The elementary school is a site for Courage 2 Change, a summer camp for low-income and at-risk students. For two weeks in June and two weeks in July, 20 elementary and middle school students in the camp come to Dawson to get tutoring...'
"Every year, more than 1,000 Pinellas teachers ask to move to other schools, with some of the highest numbers coming from south county schools with high poverty rates. But this year, two schools in Dunedin and three in Clearwater also are at the top of the list."
"The need is staggering. VESTIA coordinator Anne Struthers notes a 60 percent increase in applications for food stamps this year in Contra Costa County alone. Janette Bormann of Tools 4 School has received twice as many inquiries this year over last about free backpacks..."
"Gorman noted that low-income, black and Hispanic kids in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, which has many schools with high concentrations of poverty, now outscore counterparts in Wake County, which has long assigned students for diversity."
"The report, commissioned by KIPP, debunked the argument that the schools succeed by 'creaming' the best students from the districts they operate in. In fact, researchers said KIPP students are more likely to be low-income and black or Hispanic..."
"Schools make AYP when students at the school — including students with disabilities, low-income students and minority populations — meet goals in those three areas."
"'I'm glad that MCPS is investing in this data,' he says. But he wants to see more of it, especially comparing the college success of its minority and low-income students and of those from other places."
"The Irving school district in many ways reflects the growth in suburban poverty across the nation.
Visit Good Elementary School in south Irving, where 93 percent of the children qualify for free or reduced-price meals."
"As Newark schools prepare to enforce a stricter dress code this fall, some parents want to know why the school picked a little-known company to supply clothes for low-income students."
"Heidrick & Struggles is looking for a replacement for Del Burns, who resigned as superintendent after a new majority on the nine-member panel started to move away from a policy of balancing the percentage of students from low-income families from school to school."
"Passing rates for black, Hispanic and low-income students largely went up this past school year but still continued to lag those of white students. For instance, 53.6 percent of low-income students passed the end-of-grade reading exam, up from 49.8 percent the prior year."
"But I also study poverty. And that means one pays attention to race as well. Latinos (23.2 percent) and African- Americans (24.6 percent) are about three times as likely as whites (8.6 percent) to live in poverty."
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