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The True Cost of Child Care: Erie County NY (Final Report)
Lou Jean Fleron, Russell Weaver, Catherine Creighton — Oct 26, 2022
Funded by Erie County and supplemented with New York state funds allocated to the Cornell ILR Buffalo Co-Lab, the study builds on the Phase One report issued earlier this year and analyzes data on the child care industry and workforce for both Erie County and the state.
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Gown Towns: A Case Study of Say Yes to Education
Richard Reeves, Katherine Guyot, Edward Rodrigue — Jul 10, 2018
Postsecondary education is the entry ticket to the middle class. But for low-income Americans, college success is rare (Chapter 1). This report consists primarily of a case study of Say Yes to Education, based on interviews, site visits, focus groups, surveys, and empirical analysis (our methods are described in Chapter 2).
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Public Education in Buffalo and the Region
Marc Masson — Sep 1, 2014
The biggest problem facing Buffalo’s public schools is the fact that many students live in poverty, while at the same time being segregated from students from wealthier communities who tend to enjoy better educational opportunities and rates of academic success. Buffalo shares many of the problems of large cities in the United States, largely caused by high concentrations of poverty in urban areas. In 2009, about 59% of students served by urban school districts located in the …
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On the Edge: The Impact of Changing Demographics on an Inner-Ring Suburban School District
Corrie Stone-Johnson — Mar 28, 2014
On the Edge: The Impact of Changing Demographics on an Inner-Ring Suburban School District PowerPoint presentation.
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On the Edge: The Impact of Changing Demographics on an Inner-Ring Suburban School District
Corrie Stone-Johnson — Mar 1, 2014
Interview with Corrie Stone-Johnson from the Department of Educational Leadership & Policy.
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Title I Funds in Buffalo Public Schools: Educating Children in Poverty
Amanda Dermady — Dec 9, 2013
Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act provides federal financial assistance to public and private schools with high percentages of children from low-income families with the aim of helping children meet state academic standards. The Act was originally enacted in April 1965 as part of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s “War on Poverty” and is currently authorized under President George W. Bush’s No Child Left behind Act. Title I funds are allocated …
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Poverty Matters: The Correlation of Poverty to Test Outcomes in Buffalo, Amherst, and Cheektowaga Schools
Jacob Barnes — Dec 1, 2013
Correlation of Poverty to Test Outcomes in Buffalo, Amherst and Cheektowaga Schools data sets.
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Buffalo City School District McKinney-Vento Program
John Crabbe — Mar 1, 2013
Shows details related to the McKinney-Vento Program.
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Impact of Poverty
Assunta Ventresca — Mar 1, 2013
Developmental-Begins before birth: quality of mother nutrition and prenatal care; Parent-child interactions; less access to learning-oriented toys; less access to developmentally appropriate activities. Asthma- Environmental; Access to preventive health care. Obesity- Lack of opportunities for physical activity; Lack of access to nutritionally dense foods.
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Concentrated Poverty and Public Education
Gretchen Sullivan Apr 17, 2012
The biggest problem facing Buffalo’s public schools is the fact that most of the students live in poverty and segregation. Western New York school districts, including Buffalo, are similar to public school districts around the nation, in that they work quite well when their students are affluent or middle income. When their students are living in concentrated poverty, however, there are innumerable barriers to academic success. Nationally, the close correlation between …
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Education Levels and Low-Wage Work
Dannine Consoli — Apr 26, 2010
Is education the key to getting low-wage workers out of poverty and into higher paying, middle class jobs? In the United States, roughly one in three jobs pays a low wage. The Center for Economic and Policy Research defines “low wage” as less than 66 percent of the median wage for male workers (the median weekly pay rate for men in the fourth quarter of 2009 was $825). Employees with higher levels of education do have a significantly lower probability of working a …