• Habitat for Humanity — Building homes for those less fortunate, 1995 — 2009 • Youth Friends — Mentor for three inner -
city elementary school children, 1998 — 2000 • The Kansas City Free Health Clinic — Health Care Provider, 1998 — 2000
In the spring of 1997 over 20,000 New York
City elementary school children applied for a half - tuition voucher offered by the School Choice Scholarships Foundation, and a lottery was held to pare the number of lottery winners to around thirteen hundred students, the number that SCSF resources could support.
A state senator is planning to introduce legislation Tuesday that would require
city elementary school children to be tested for lead exposure.
Brooklyn Sen. Jesse Hamilton is planning to introduce legislation today that would require
city elementary school children to be tested for lead exposure.
Not exact matches
There are more than 20
elementary and middle
schools in the
city, which serve almost 20,000
school - aged
children and their families.
They have two
children, James, an army officer who is headed for Afghanistan as a translator of Farsi, and Caitlin, who finishes up at Washington University in St. Louis this May and then plans on serving a two - year stint teaching inner -
city elementary -
school kids for Teach for America.
In the Greeley and Gresham
schools and others we visited and in most of the
elementary school lunchrooms throughout the
city,
children pick up their trays and file along a short cafeteria line that offers a serving of meat or an alternative, a vegetable, bread, fruit and milk.
The experiment took place in an inner
city elementary school with 297
children in grades Kindergarten through 6.
Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara says 83 % of the
city's public
elementary schools are not fully accessible to
children with disabilities.
The parents of 59 percent of black New York
City elementary -
school children opt out of their neighborhood
school, aiming for a better one.
In New York
City, nearly half of
elementary school children are overweight.
Free all - day programs can also be a lifeline to parents struggling with sky - high
child care costs, points out Brian Jones, a former New York
City elementary school teacher, current Green Party candidate for lieutenant governor of New York State, and parent of a young
child approaching preschool age.
The
City Council last week overwhelmingly passed Avonte's Law, a bill that will require the city Department of Education to install door alarms in schools that accommodate elementary school child
City Council last week overwhelmingly passed Avonte's Law, a bill that will require the
city Department of Education to install door alarms in schools that accommodate elementary school child
city Department of Education to install door alarms in
schools that accommodate
elementary school children.
In the past, families who live in Community Board 1 — which includes TriBeCa, Battery Park
City and the Financial District — have been reluctant to send their
children to
elementary school outside of that immediate area.
In the study, 292 first - generation immigrant
children who attended eight high - poverty, urban
elementary schools in Boston took part in the intervention, called
City Connects, in the early 2000s.
Our neighborhood
school went from «I'm never, ever sending my
child there» to one of the best and most desirable
elementary schools in the
city.
New York, NY About Blog The GO Project shapes the futures of low - income New York
City public
school children by providing critical academic, social and emotional support starting in the early
elementary years.
The
city's charter board calls Hope «mid-performing» — about 40 percent of its
elementary -
school children and 60 percent of its middle
schoolers are considered proficient in math and English.
Two waves of developmental data (fall and spring) were analyzed from the first year of the evaluation of the Resolving Conflict Creatively Program (RCCP), which includes 5053
children from grades 2 - 6 from 11
elementary schools in New York
City.
In a growing number of simulations, ranging from the off - the - shelf SimCity and to Muzzy Lane's Making History to MIT's experimental Revolution and Supercharged, students — even
elementary school children — can now manipulate whole virtual systems, from
cities to countries to refineries, rather than just handling manipulatives.
Four waves of data on features of
children's social - emotional development known to predict aggression / violence were collected in the fall and spring over two years for a highly representative sample of
children in grades 1 - 6 from New York
City public
elementary schools (N = 11,160).
Their analysis of student achievement in New York
City middle
schools confirms parents» conclusion that
children learn more if they stay in an
elementary -
school setting through grade 8 than if they move to a stand - alone middle
school.
In a randomized control - group study, researchers from New York University, Fordham University, and Columbia University tracked the development of students in nine New York
City elementary schools that implemented The 4Rs Program compared with
children in nine control
schools over three years.
This report followed the release of new data showing that Success Academy suspends
elementary school students at seven times the rate of New York
City's public
elementary schools including many
children in kindergarten.
Its record of achievement has continued to attract a diverse cross section of students, including families from each of the
city's 32
school districts representing
children zoned for 576 different
elementary schools in both low - income and mixed - income neighborhoods.
When
Schools Literally Take Food Out of the Hands of Children A recent episode at a Salt Lake City elementary school highlights a common, hard - to - solve problem: What should schools do when students can't pay for
Schools Literally Take Food Out of the Hands of
Children A recent episode at a Salt Lake
City elementary school highlights a common, hard - to - solve problem: What should
schools do when students can't pay for
schools do when students can't pay for lunch?
If the current homeless rate among families continues in New York
City, one in seven
school - aged
children will be homeless at some point during
elementary school.
Even the Advantage
school in Rocky Mount, N.C., that Mayor Schundler says is so well equipped to serve Jersey
City's poor, is skimming; 38 percent of its
children qualify for free lunches versus 49 percent for Rocky Mount
elementary schools.
The suspension rate for
elementary students at Success Academy charter
schools is seven times the rate of New York
City's public
elementary schools and, like Achievement First, Inc. the charter
school was targeting and abusing
children as young as kindergarten.
And in New York, a
city audit found that only 6 percent of the
city's
schools came anywhere near to offering the required two hours of physical education, or PE, for
elementary - age
children each week.
In a three - year pilot study at 20
elementary schools in New York
City with a diverse population of
children, students using CKLA had significantly larger gains than students in similar
schools.
A new musical from the Rochester
Children's Theatre is now making the rounds at
elementary schools in the
city school district.
This, in spite of the fact that the District decided to slash the offerings for those very
children by eliminating all of the 27
elementary art, music and PE positions in the Lansing
schools over a year ago, leaving the
city's students with only 2 music, art and PE classes per semester, while their peers in neighboring
school systems often receive these classes twice per week.
With an art degree from Rhode Island
School of Design on his office wall, two union cards - stagehands and scenic artists - in his wallet, five able - bodied children, a French wife, and a photograph torn from a magazine of two Yugoslav guys roasting a lamb over a pit, he created a legendary party - a feast that almost two hundred people came to every year from as far away as the townhouses of New York City and as near as our local elementary s
School of Design on his office wall, two union cards - stagehands and scenic artists - in his wallet, five able - bodied
children, a French wife, and a photograph torn from a magazine of two Yugoslav guys roasting a lamb over a pit, he created a legendary party - a feast that almost two hundred people came to every year from as far away as the townhouses of New York
City and as near as our local
elementary schoolschool.
Here are the top five
schools for each category (
elementary and secondary
school) for the top 10
cities to raise a
child.
New York, NY About Blog The GO Project shapes the futures of low - income New York
City public
school children by providing critical academic, social and emotional support starting in the early
elementary years.
New York, NY About Blog The GO Project shapes the futures of low - income New York
City public
school children by providing critical academic, social and emotional support starting in the early
elementary years.
As well as being a nanny and working at a local
elementary school, I volunteer as the Assistant
Children's Director at Elevate
City Church.
Pleasant Valley / Cumberland Valley
School District, City • PA 2002 — 2007 Volunteer Provided essential tutoring of elementary school children in all subjects to further the scholastic educational success and to move students forward toward their educational su
School District,
City • PA 2002 — 2007 Volunteer Provided essential tutoring of
elementary school children in all subjects to further the scholastic educational success and to move students forward toward their educational su
school children in all subjects to further the scholastic educational success and to move students forward toward their educational success.
Currently Ms. Richardson - Gibbs works for the El Monte
City School District providing inclusion support to preschool and early
elementary age
children with disabilities.
In a randomized control - group study, researchers from New York University, Fordham University, and Columbia University tracked the development of students in nine New York
City elementary schools that implemented The 4Rs Program compared with
children in nine control
schools over three years.
The investigation reporting the outlier prevalence rate of 26 % examined the smallest sample of
children, and all
children in that investigation were from a single, inner -
city elementary school.11 These methodological limitations may have contributed to a spuriously inflated estimate for the prevalence of ADHD in the general population.
These range from working with victims of domestic violence, including
children, to feeding and clothing the impoverished families in the heart of the
city, working with Chicago's overnight homeless women's shelters, teaching at - risk high
school students in Chicago Public
Schools and also working in other
elementary school settings.
Four waves of data on features of
children's social - emotional development known to predict aggression / violence were collected in the fall and spring over two years for a highly representative sample of
children in grades 1 - 6 from New York
City public
elementary schools (N = 11,160).
Two waves of developmental data (fall and spring) were analyzed from the first year of the evaluation of the Resolving Conflict Creatively Program (RCCP), which includes 5053
children from grades 2 - 6 from 11
elementary schools in New York
City.