Sentence examples for poverty school from inspiring English sources

P.S. 142 is a high poverty school so close to the Williamsburg Bridge that during recess children can hear the cars above them driving to Brooklyn.

Even its radicalism - serious and long-term efforts to tackle poverty, school standards and the skills shortages - has been underplayed for fear of upsetting the Daily Mail.

Sharpstown High School, a high poverty school that falsely claimed zero dropouts in 2002, also reported in 2001 that 98.4percentt of its graduates expected to attend college.

To hear Ms. Karopkin describe her job, one might think she is the headmaster of an elite private academy instead of a Title I "high poverty" school with 400 students.

Katherine McCormick, Hartford's health director, said the city's high number of pregnant teenagers could be attributed to a mixture of causes, including poverty, school dropout rates and cultural factors.

He argues that the loss of a cultural leads to the extermination of self-worth in a society, intensifying problems of poverty, school drop-out rates, drug and alcohol abuse, and even suicide (Excerpt 3).

Seven of 10 fourth graders in our highest poverty schools cannot read a simple children's book.

If the government is going to start using school data to hide poverty, schools must find a way to highlight it.

"Today, incredibly enough in our country, 7 out of 10 fourth graders in our highest poverty schools cannot read," Mr. Bush said.

The initiative pledges at least $900 million a year to improve reading scores in high poverty schools and another $75 million a year for preschool reading.

In practice, many states have continued to shortchange those high poverty schools while using Title I money to make up the difference.