The associations between maternal BMI and phenotypes of asthma (early transient, persistent and school-age onset asthma) were analysed using multi-nomial logistic regression and the association between maternal BMI and asthma stratified for sensitization were analysed using ordinary logistic regression.
"This has affected virtually every aspect of community life, like increasing the rate of transient students in the schools," he says.
The problems, Ms. Cavanagh said, include a large transient population in the schools, an abundance of low-income housing, halfway houses, illegal housing, gangs and crime including drugs and shootings.
Another study showed that early RSV infection predisposes children to recurrent wheezing during their early childhood but that airway morbidity is transient and subsides during school age [ 13].
From here on in, several dozen low-performing schools with fragile, transient populations will be in Ms. Harwayne's care, along with the stable, successful schools that have been her trademark.
The 8-year-old living in a homeless shelter and attending a school overwhelmed with transient children — where truancy can be a sign of something dangerous — racks up 30 absences before someone has the time to notice.
Take a small charter school in a transient, low-income neighborhood: If it were to lose just 10 students over the course of the year – a few students transfer to other schools; a few families move out of the area; a few kids are expelled or become truants – the school would be docked about $75,000.
This method omits from a school's results the scores of transient students who may have received most of their high school education in other schools, or even other countries.
With a highly transient population in many of our schools, we have to intervene early and find them before they fail the test.
Though transient, he managed to finish high school, become a proofreader and get a degree from Vassar College.
