Proposals to top-slice funding for disadvantaged children in England could backfire, council leaders have warned.
Others said that even if they maintained testing, the city could still address other barriers for disadvantaged children.
Within the nonprofit sector, there has been strong growth in providing disadvantaged children with social, educational and health services.
There is growing agreement that the poor school performance of many minority and disadvantaged children is a national disgrace.
They concluded that early interventions programs targeted at disadvantaged children "can provide significant benefits" to participating children and their families.
This combined budget will then have to be distributed - with the added factor of a pupil premium for disadvantaged children.
He also launched the Emeril Lagasse Foundation to help disadvantaged children pursue their dreams -- much like the former Massachusetts schoolboy's rise to stardom.
Sandusky, who ran a charity for disadvantaged children after he retired in 1999, was convicted last June on 45 counts of child sex abuse.
Sylvan has won contracts to provide remedial teaching for disadvantaged children in 17 states, including 13 schools in Baltimore and 33 in Los Angeles.
Mycoskie called the company TOMS: Shoes For Tomorrow -- a name that reflects his desire to provide shoes for disadvantaged children in a sustainable way.
The Humanitarian of the Year honor went to Emeril Lagasse, whose Emeril Lagasse Foundation in New Orleans supports nonprofit and educational programs aimed at disadvantaged children.
They have the potential to help good-quality early childhood programmes lay strong foundations for learning and development, and improve lifelong opportunities, particularly for vulnerable and disadvantaged children.
We know, for instance, that loopholes in the law's accountability system must be closed to ensure that the performance of disadvantaged children is not being hidden or ignored.
We think that if we're really going to have an impact on disadvantaged children the public sector is part of the solution, but we can't wait on them.
Efforts were also made to identify and encourage former teachers to rejoin the educational sector while subsidies were provided to enable disadvantaged children to gain access to education.
Andre Agassi, founder of the Andre Agassi Charitable Foundation, and his wife, Stefanie Graf, both work tirelessly to help disadvantaged children, in an effort to provide them educational opportunities.
The opposition's amendment says the budget does not adequately address pressure on the NHS, a worsening economic crisis, the needs of disadvantaged children and financial pressure on capital projects.
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The researchers also concluded that, at least for some disadvantaged children and their families, government funds invested early in the lives of children result in compensating decreases in government expenditures later.
The charity, which will be named in January 2004, will be able to use the cash value of donated points to fund a number of discrete projects to help disadvantaged children.
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Once local authorities had the details of which children were to benefit from the free places, he said, they would be able to map their supply to where the disadvantaged children lived.
Between 1980 and 1992, for example, the proportion of disadvantaged children in four-year colleges fell slightly (from 29% to 28%) while the proportion of well-to-do children rose substantially (from 55% to 66%).
The social enterprise, which has two more plants in Zambia and Ghana, uses the widespread popularity of football in the continent to help create jobs and offer disadvantaged children access to sport equipment.
To replace and supplement those institutions, we need a more comprehensive early-education system, one that provides disadvantaged children with the kind of intensive early intervention they need to thrive in kindergarten and beyond.
On February 26, Penn State's vice president told Curley, the athletic director, to contact Sandusky, alert child welfare authorities and inform Second Mile, the charity Sandusky founded for disadvantaged children, a purported e-mail says.
Precisely because we are women, our voices provide an opportunity for the responsible fatherhood field to continue its growth, effectiveness, and sustainability, further ensuring that the complex needs of disadvantaged children, families, and communities are met.
Develop, implement and evaluate varied approaches to Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) in the Arab States with particular emphasis on reviewing and improving policies and practices and expanding ECCE for the most vulnerable and disadvantaged children.
Policies and systems must be in place to promote best practices in teaching, to address the non-academic health and social needs of disadvantaged children, to reward innovation and success, and to intervene effectively in schools in need of improvement.
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Ofsted also said that the money the government makes available for summer schools to help disadvantaged children bridge the gap between primary and secondary education could be better spent on extra maths and English classes once they start secondary school.
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He highlighted the "desperate" situation for many disadvantaged children in the UK, urging the MP "not to attack those parents investing heavily in their children, but to find out why the vast majority of young people want to be good parents and yet a very, very, very substantial group of them fail to do so".
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